It will restore the previous settings after updating. The executable can then be deployed as is using a product like Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.įor environments where software updates are deployed with Configuration Manager / WSUS, the program will check if registry keys have been set preventing access to Windows Update online and temporarily open them. The program simply connects to Windows Update online, checks if a newer driver version is available for the Conexant ISST audio driver (listed under ‘Conexant – MEDIA – ‘ in the MS update catalog), and downloads and installs it. In researching this myself, I found that there are more than one driver available and different models will take different drivers, so I decided to write a little C# program that will update a device using Windows Update directly instead. Madhu took the approach of downloading the drivers from the Microsoft Update Catalog and packaging them with a script wrapper for the install. You can read more about the issue here, but around September/October 2020 timeframe, newer drivers became available that are not affected by this Safeguard and updating the drivers will release a device from this hold. I saw a tweet recently from Madhu Sanke where he had deployed updated Conexant ISST drivers to his environment to release devices from the Safeguard ID 25178825 which at the time of writing still prevents devices trying to upgrade to 2004 or 20H2.
