Path

Applies To: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista

Path is a local or Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path to a location that contains out-of-box device drivers to make available during Windows Setup. During the auditSystem configuration pass, these drivers are copied to the driver store of the Windows installation.

Values

This string type does not support empty elements. Do not create an empty value for this setting.

Valid Passes

auditSystem

offlineServicing

Parent Hierarchy

Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE | DriverPaths | PathAndCredentials | Path

Applies To

For the list of the supported Windows editions and architectures that this component supports, see Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE.

XML Example

The following XML output specifies the UNC paths to two additional locations for device drivers and the credentials used to access those paths.

<DriverPaths>
<!-- First PathAndCredentials list item -->
   <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="1">
      <Path>\\myFirstDriverPath\DriversFolder</Path>
      <Credentials>
         <Domain>MyDomain</Domain>
         <Username>MyUsername</Username>
         <Password>MyPassword</Password>
      </Credentials>
   </PathAndCredentials>
<!-- Second PathAndCredentials list item -->
   <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="2">
      <Path>C:\Drivers</Path>
      <Credentials>
         <Domain>MyComputerName</Domain>
         <Username>MyUsername</Username>
         <Password>MyPassword</Password>
      </Credentials>
   </PathAndCredentials>
</DriverPaths>

See Also

Concepts

PathAndCredentials