Jun 26, 2013 Tech support scams are an industry-wide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a Microsoft Agent or Microsoft Employee and that the phone number is an official Microsoft global customer service number. Note The 'Hotfix Download Available' form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language. Prerequisites To apply this hotfix, you must be running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
'The selected driver is not applicable to any supported platforms.'
Wait, what? We are on SCCM 2012 R2 CU3 (CU4 any day!) so we should not get something like this. Did I somehow get some secret Windows 10 drivers somehow? Lots of mis-written INF files? This is strange.
In my last post I was talking about one time driver injection. We've moved past that as we liked the Toshiba device and decided to buy a large number of them so they need to be setup in SCCM. Initially, a Toshiba INF driver was mis-written to state it supported 64-Bit when the DLL it called for were 32-Bit only. BSOD's all around. After fixing that I still had to address this supported platform problem. While trying to import drivers we would get this error about several of them, mostly NIC drivers not being imported due to being unsupported . In the case of the Toshiba, the physical NIC did not import, however the WiFi driver imported, so after sysprep the Toshiba started imaging over the wireless interface. That was fun, I don't recommend that.Looking at the INFs they were written in normal Intel fashion and even making some modifications to strip down to Windows 8.1 did nothing. Digging through the SCCM logs was not a ton of help either. AdminUI.Log, DriverCatalog.Log, SMSAdmin.Log, Setupapi.app.log, you name it. All just said the same thing, driver not applicable. Those actually gave an error code of 0x80070661.
Turns out the issue is due to our Site Server being on 2008 R2. Specifically with the OS. The signing in these drivers is using a newer method thats not native in 2008 R2. Microsoft released KB3025419 which states to install KB2837108 and KB2921916 to update the OS to support the newer signing method in ConfigMgr. Coincidentally both this KB and the Toshiba device came out at the same time. After applying the hotfix and restarting (not required but the KB states to do anyway) we are now able to import these newer signed drivers and image the Toshibas up successfully and quickly.