Publish a commuter to Windows Update

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To publish a driver to Windows Update, create a hardware submission and then follow the steps beneath.

  1. Discover the hardware submission that contains the driver you want to distribute.

  2. Go to the Distribution department of the hardware submission and select New shipping label.

    screenshot that shows new shipping label button.

  3. On the shipping label folio, go to the Details section and enter a proper name for the aircraft label in the Aircraft characterization name field. This proper name allows you to organize and search for your aircraft labels.

  4. In the Properties section, complete the following information:

Field Description
Destination Select Publish to Windows Update to publish your driver to Windows Update. If you want to create a shared shipping label that allows you lot to share your driver with a partner, encounter Share a driver with a partner. Note Shared drivers tin can simply exist shared by the system that originally created it. An arrangement that receives a shared driver cannot share it again.
Specify the partner (if any) that is allowed visibility into this request Enter a partner that y'all want to have read-only permissions to your driver and aircraft label. Utilise this field when you want a partner to be aware of this shipping label request, such as when you lot publish a commuter on their behalf. For more information, see Publish a driver on behalf of a partner.
Driver Commitment Options When the destination is Windows Update, the default is Automatic, which means that the driver is delivered automatically on upgrades and for every applicable organisation. If you select just the Automatically delivered during Windows Upgrades the commuter is divers as a Dynamic Driver and is delivered simply during OS upgrades. If you select simply Automatically delivered to all applicative systems, Windows Update delivers the commuter immediately to all applicative systems once information technology is released.

If you select Manual in Windows x, version 1909 or earlier, the driver is automatically delivered only if the device does not have a driver installed already or only has a generic driver.

Starting in Windows ten, version 2004, drivers with a Manual shipping label is non automatically delivered. To admission the best matching Optional/Transmission driver, the user must become to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > View optional updates > Driver updates.

screenshot that shows label name and publishing properties.

  1. In the Targeting section, select the driver package that you want to publish.

  2. After you select your driver package, Select PNPs becomes available. Select the hardware IDs you want to target. Yous tin search for a specific hardware ID or operating system past using the search boxes higher up the list of hardware IDs.

    To target all listed hardware IDs, select Publish All.

    To target specific hardware IDs, notice each desired hardware ID and select Publish.

    If you lot targeted all hardware IDs and desire to remove them, select Elapse All.

    To remove targeting for specific hardware IDs, find each hardware ID and select Elapse.

    screenshot that shows targeting section and pnps.

  3. If you want to add Estimator Hardware IDs (CHIDs), enter each CHID into the text box and select Add CHID(southward). To majority add multiple CHIDs, ensure that each CHID is separated by a newline, select Add together multiple CHIDs, and paste your CHIDs into the text box. You tin can view all added CHIDs in the list below the text box. To remove a CHID from the listing, select Remove

Important

CHIDs are not supported for the following versions of windows:

  • Windows 8.1 or earlier
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 or earlier

If your driver targets either of these operating systems, create two shipping labels: i for Windows 10 (where you can add CHIDs) and one for down-level operating systems (where no CHIDs volition be added).

  1. If you wish to limit public disclosure of your Shipping Label in the Windows Update Itemize and WSUS Catalog, check the Limit Public Disclosure of this Shipping Characterization data. box.

    screenshot that shows limit public disclosure.

    Your driver will however exist published and downloadable from Windows Update but will not testify up in either of the public catalog lists.

  2. If your driver targets Windows 10 in S mode, y'all must select both boxes, confirming the post-obit:

    • Your driver is uniform with and follows the commuter policies outlined in the Windows 10 in S way Driver Requirements.
    • You verify that your driver follows the boosted code integrity policies outlined in the Windows 10 in S mode guidelines.
    • Your driver does non comprise any not-Microsoft UI components or applications in the commuter bundle.

    A screenshot of the two checkboxes you must select when submitting a driver for Windows 10 S.

  3. Select Publish to send your asking to Windows Update. If yous do not want to publish the shipping label right at present, you tin select Relieve. Y'all tin can publish the shipping label later by either opening the shipping characterization and selecting Publish, or you can select Publish all pending from the hardware submission page. Note that selecting Publish all pending volition publish all unpublished shipping labels.