Manage driver distribution with shipping labels

After you create your hardware submissions and uploaded your driver packages, create shipping labels to distribute your drivers. You create a shipping label when you want to Publish a driver to Windows Update, for example. Shipping labels contain information about the distribution of your driver. Shipping label information includes:

• A name for the shipping label
• The destination for the driver package, such as Windows Update
• Driver delivery options, such as Automatically delivered to all applicable systems, or Automatically delivered during Windows Upgrades

Shipping labels allow you to:

• Publish your drivers to Windows Update
• Share your drivers with partners
• Publish drivers that are shared with you
• Publish drivers on behalf of your partners

In this section

For more information about shipping labels, read the other articles in this section.

• Publishing restrictions
• Publish a driver to Windows Update
• Share a driver with a partner
• Expire a driver from Windows Update
• View partner shipping labels for a shared driver
• Using Computer Hardware IDs (CHIDs)
• Publishing for test distribution