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Expert Level Integration of ThinInstaller with SCCM

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Identifying Missing or Down-level Drivers and Hardware Applications on Think Products with ThinInstaller This post is mainly for anyone using Update Retriever/ThinInstaller in their environment alongside SCCM (Current Branch). If you use ThinInstaller to install drivers and hardware apps on your client systems, a recently added action called "SCAN" can be used in the command line when calling ThinInstaller. An example of its use will look like this: ThinInstaller.exe /CM -search A -action SCAN -repository \\<RepoShare> -noicon -includerebootpackages 3 -noreboot What this will do is search your Update Retriever repository and find all applicable content for the system but not install anything.  A second log will be generated when using the SCAN switch titled " Update_ApplicabilityRulesTrace.txt " along with the expected " Update_log_<CurrentTimeStamp>.txt " that gets created any time ThinInstaller is executed. A quick look inside