How to install several drivers and configure Windows settings unattended on BYOD devices?

Question

For a little project we need to ensure that certain drivers and Windows settings are installed on frequently changing BYOD devices. I am looking for advice on how to achieve this in a simple way. We are all non-coders.

We need to do the following with a single file/install package which is to be downloaded from a website and set all needed drivers and settings up immediately. That file would have to contain all necessary components:

• Install a driver for a printer (connected via USB (zebra or dymo) at a later time)
• Give the printer a distinctive name, make it default printer
• Install driver software for a specific QR scanner
• Make sure that Windos 10 allows to use the Scanner and printer accordingly
• Add a shortcut to a specific website on the desktop
• Has a repair like functionality to just redo the installation to fix any potential issues
• provides the ability to uninstall the drivers and settings at a later time

The website is an existing AWS app that uses the scanner to read a QR code, does some processing and prints out yet another QR code on the zebra or dymo printer

What is the best way to do this?

Thanks Dan

Answer 1

You can do this in Windows Update settings.

Go to Settings, Update and Recovery and Update Options.

Set "Receive updates for other Microsoft Products" to ON.

Set Automatic Updates to ON (likely the only way it can be).

Set Hours of Operation from 7:00am to 9:00pm and save all this.

Now Windows will download and install updates but NOT restart until inactive hours are in place. This works well on my machines here.

This approach works for Admin users and Standard Users and works for all Windows Updates and Driver Updates that Windows supports.

Printer depend on the particular printer. Once installed, Windows will keep it up to date.

Windows Repairs are not automatic.

Start with Windows and Driver updates (easy), and then look at your other issues.

Office 365 updates automatically and rarely needs to restart.

Adobe can be set to Automatic Updates and it too will not restart until hours permit. Sometimes (many times) Adobe will update without restarting which is a good thing.

You need to look to your individual apps to see how they fit in.

If necessary, for the users who come in with their own machines, you could write a brief article on basic setups so that you do not need to manage the machines.

Here is a screen shot of the basic settings and then you can go from there.

It could very difficult indeed to manage individual non-domain machines.