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Type of Change

  • New feature
  • Bug fix
  • Documentation update
  • Refactor
  • UI/UX improvement

Description

Win11 Creator exports every current-system driver, then injects all of them into install.wim in one Add-Driver call. If any single package is bad, DISM aborts the whole batch and the user gets no ISO.

Two real cases cause this:

  • Windows Update sometimes leaves a stale duplicate of an already-installed driver behind, and DISM fails to import the old copy.
  • Extension-class drivers (audio effect add-ons, not real hardware drivers) can't be serviced offline at all.

This PR filters both out before the single Add-Driver call runs. Nothing else about driver injection changes, and WinPE boot-driver staging is untouched.

Validation

  • All 585 tests pass
  • .\Compile.ps1
  • Manually ran the driver export workflow and 9 packages were excluded as they were Extension-class drivers. I compared against my the exported driver data and this was correct.

Issue related to PR

…ection

Add-Driver aborts the whole batch when one exported package is bad,
which broke ISO creation for anyone with an Extension-class or stale
duplicate driver in their store (ChrisTitusTech#4971, ChrisTitusTech#4982). Exclude both before
the single Add-Driver call instead of guessing per-vendor.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Improved Windows 11 ISO driver staging by excluding extension-class driver packages.
    • Automatically removes duplicate driver packages while retaining the newest available version.
    • Supports driver packages with date-only version information and provider-specific variants.
    • Provides clearer results showing whether drivers were actually injected.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevents outdated or unsupported drivers from being injected into generated ISOs.
    • Validates ISO metadata before making driver changes.
    • Safely preserves the ISO when all available driver packages are excluded.

Walkthrough

Driver staging now recognizes quoted extension classes, preserves packages from different providers, validates WIM metadata before injection, and skips image changes when no packages survive. The ISO workflow reports whether drivers were actually injected.

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Driver staging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Package classification and deduplication
functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilISOScript.ps1, pester/win11creator.Tests.ps1
Classification accepts quoted Class="Extension" values. Logger output does not enter parsed results. Provider names participate in duplicate-package keys. Tests cover provider collisions and version selection.
Conditional injection and validation
functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilISOScript.ps1, pester/win11creator.Tests.ps1
The helper validates WIM metadata before filtering. If no packages remain, it leaves install.wim unchanged. After a successful commit and validation, it sets DriversInjected to $true. Tests cover excluded packages and successful injection.
Injection result reporting
functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilISO.ps1
The workflow logs successful injection only when drivers were actually injected. It logs separately when injection was requested but unnecessary.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d33ea

The PR filters drivers before offline injection, but valid packages may still be silently dropped when provider tokens resolve differently, and an empty-injection path may report success without adding drivers. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and reporting issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant InvokeWinUtilISO
  participant InvokeWinUtilISOScript
  participant AddWinUtilISOStagedDrivers
  participant DISM
  InvokeWinUtilISO->>InvokeWinUtilISOScript: request driver injection
  InvokeWinUtilISOScript->>AddWinUtilISOStagedDrivers: pass DriversInjected reference
  AddWinUtilISOStagedDrivers->>DISM: validate WIM metadata
  AddWinUtilISOStagedDrivers->>DISM: inject surviving drivers
  DISM-->>AddWinUtilISOStagedDrivers: commit and validate updated metadata
  AddWinUtilISOStagedDrivers-->>InvokeWinUtilISO: report actual injection result
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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR addresses driver-injection failures in #4971, but it does not address #4982's corrupted Outlook package manifest failure. Remove #4982 from the linked issues or add code that handles the corrupted Outlook package and missing manifest failure.
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code and tests remain focused on driver classification, deduplication, metadata validation, injection reporting, and related logging.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: filtering unserviceable and stale drivers before Win11 Creator injection.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the driver-filtering bug fix, its causes, validation, and linked issues.
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pester/win11creator.Tests.ps1 (1)

416-479: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the shared driver-export harness, and assert that excluded folders are deleted.

Two points on the new tests:

  1. The dism.exe stub and the Start-Process mock are now repeated three times. Move them into a helper in BeforeAll that accepts the fixture list. That keeps future changes to the DISM contract in one place.
  2. No test asserts that Add-WinUtilISOStagedDrivers deletes the excluded folders from the export root. That deletion is the mechanism that prevents the DISM Add-Driver failure, because the single call uses /Recurse over the whole export root. Capture the export root in the mock, then assert that the excluded folders no longer exist.

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In `@pester/win11creator.Tests.ps1` around lines 416 - 479, The driver-export test
setup is duplicated and does not verify cleanup of excluded packages. Extract
the shared dism.exe stub and Start-Process mock into a BeforeAll helper that
accepts the fixture list, capture the export root during the mock, and update
the relevant tests around Add-WinUtilISOStagedDrivers to assert that each
excluded fixture folder is deleted while retained packages remain available for
the single recursive Add-Driver call.
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Inline comments:
In `@functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilISOScript.ps1`:
- Around line 145-150: Update the fallback assignment in the deduplication logic
near $nameMatch so $dedupKey uses the full $driverFolder path instead of the
leaf name; retain the normalized INF-name and architecture key for folders
matching the DISM export pattern.
- Around line 101-104: Update the DriverVer regex in Invoke-WinUtilISOScript to
make the comma-separated version component optional, allowing date-only entries
such as DriverVer=06/01/2024; when no version is captured, assign the default
version 0.0 so the package is not treated as unknown.

---

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In `@pester/win11creator.Tests.ps1`:
- Around line 416-479: The driver-export test setup is duplicated and does not
verify cleanup of excluded packages. Extract the shared dism.exe stub and
Start-Process mock into a BeforeAll helper that accepts the fixture list,
capture the export root during the mock, and update the relevant tests around
Add-WinUtilISOStagedDrivers to assert that each excluded fixture folder is
deleted while retained packages remain available for the single recursive
Add-Driver call.
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Accept date-only DriverVer entries instead of treating them as
unknown. Use the full folder path as the dedup fallback key so two
unrelated packages can't collide on a shared leaf name. Discard the
logger's own output inside the selector so an emitting -Log callback
can't inflate the survivor count. Skip driver injection instead of
failing the whole ISO build when nothing is left to inject.

Also extracts the repeated DISM mock setup in the driver tests into
one shared harness, and asserts that excluded packages are actually
deleted from the export root before Add-Driver runs, not just logged.

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442-462: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Test the all-excluded package path.

net_pkg survives in this test, so Add-Driver still runs. Add an all-Extension fixture test. Assert that mount, Add-Driver, and commit calls are all absent and that the no-driver log is emitted.

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scenario using only an Extension-class package and assert that mount,
Add-Driver, and commit DISM calls are absent, while the no-driver log is
emitted; keep the existing mixed-package assertions unchanged.

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475-511: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Test date-only DriverVer ranking.

Every fixture includes a version component. Add a duplicate pair where the newer package has a date-only DriverVer. Assert that it survives selection and is present at /Add-Driver time.

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fixture pair in New-WinUtilDriverExportHarness where the newer package uses a
date-only DriverVer, then assert its export path is present in
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In `@functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilISOScript.ps1`:
- Around line 319-324: Update the driver injection flow in
Invoke-WinUtilISOScript and its caller Invoke-WinUtilISO to return and consume
an injection-result flag. Set the flag only when Add-Driver executes
successfully, and make the current-system-drivers success log conditional on
that flag so the no-injection path reports only that nothing was injected.

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In `@pester/win11creator.Tests.ps1`:
- Around line 442-462: The existing test covers a mixed package set, not the
all-excluded path. Add a focused fixture scenario using only an Extension-class
package and assert that mount, Add-Driver, and commit DISM calls are absent,
while the no-driver log is emitted; keep the existing mixed-package assertions
unchanged.
- Around line 475-511: Add a duplicate fixture pair in
New-WinUtilDriverExportHarness where the newer package uses a date-only
DriverVer, then assert its export path is present in
$script:exportRootAtAddDriver and the older duplicate is absent. Update the
expected package count or exclusion assertions as needed while preserving the
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547-559: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for date-only DriverVer.

The parser now accepts DriverVer=MM/DD/YYYY and assigns version 0.0. This test covers versioned and missing directives, but not the date-only directive. Add a duplicate pair with a newer date-only entry and assert that it survives over an older versioned entry.

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New-WinUtilDriverExportHarness fixture set with a duplicate pair where one entry
has an older versioned DriverVer and the other has a newer date-only DriverVer
that parses as version 0.0; assert that the newer date-only entry survives
deduplication. Keep the focused coverage alongside the existing DriverVer cases.

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- Around line 135-149: Update Get-WinUtilISODriverProvider to resolve
percent-delimited Provider tokens using the INF’s [Strings] and localized string
sections before returning the provider value, stripping surrounding quotes from
resolved values. When resolution fails, return a package-unique fallback so
distinct packages cannot collide during deduplication; also add a fixture
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