Best practice on drivers update

How to update driver?
There are so many different types mode of computers. update drives with inf or exe?

You can do it with two ways:
Application model
Package / Program
I don't know is there really a 'best practice' though. The driver updating itself is done with this neat little utility called devcon.exe (more info on the syntax it uses here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff544746%28v=vs.85%29.aspx). For the correct version of the utility, you need to download Windows Driver Kit for the correct version of Windows you will be deploying the updated drivers to (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/hardware/gg454513).
Devcon is used for the .inf file updates, for the .exe packaged drivers you simply run the .exe silently. Jörgen has done an excellent sample on this with the application model:
http://ccmexec.com/2013/10/update-a-device-driver-configuration-manager-2012/

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