tksearch.exe

The tksearch utility performs a Toolkit search for the following information:

The latest ServerGuide driver sets starting from a given path.
The latest ServerGuide driver set or sets that supports one or more specified machine types.
The latest ServerGuide driver set or sets that supports a specified Network Operating System.
The architecture and type of a Network Operating System.

Two versions of the utility come with ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit:

A 32-bit version for Windows 32-bit operating systems and for the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 2.1/3.0 (32-bit)
A 64-bit version for Windows x64 operating systems and for Windows PE 2.1/3.0 (x64).

tksearch usage

The tksearch utility syntax:

tksearch driverpath [/W:n | /WP:nospath | WP:prodspec.ini] [/M:machtype/platform_ID] [/B:filename] [/?]

The tksearch utility uses these parameters.

Table 1. tksearch parameters
Parameter	Description
`driverpath`	The fully qualified directory path to start searching for driver sets. For example: F:\sgdeploy\drvs.
`/W:n`	The preferred version of Windows to device drivers to search for: 0 = Windows Server 2000 1 =Windows Server 2003 (Default) 2 = Windows 2000 Professional 3 = Windows XP 4 = Windows Server 2003 x64
/WP:`nospath`	The fully qualified path to directory to start searching for the Windows prodspec.ini file. For example, F:\sgdeploy\os\w23_std
/WP:prodspec.ini	The fully qualified path to the Windows prodspec.ini file. For example, F:\sgdeploy\os\w23_std\i386\prodspec.ini
/I:`machinetype/platform_ID`	Limits the search to the specified machine types or platform IDs. To specify multiple machine types or platform IDs use a comma as the delimiter, for example, `/I:8853,8854`.
/B:`filename`	The name of the batch file in which to place the resulted environment variables. The default is .\DrvSet.bat. Environment variables are: `TK_NOS_Type` - (Win2000, Win2003) `TK_NOS_Arch` - (I386, AMD64) `TK_NOS_Arch_Type` - (x86, x64) `TK_NOS_DDL_Type` - (Win2000 Server, Win2003 Server, Win2003 Server x64) `TK_NOS_DDL_Path_#` - (number of drivers sets found) `TK_NOS_DDL_Path_1` - (corresponding drivers set) `TK_NOS_DDL_Path_2` - (corresponding drivers set) `TK_NOS_DDL_Path_3` (corresponding drivers set)

The tksearch utility returns the following values to indicate status:

The following examples illustrate tksearch utility usage.

Table 2. tksearch examples
Example	Description
`tksearch f:\sgdeploy\drvs`	Search all ServerGuide drivers sets regardless of machine type or NOS type.
`tksearch f:\sgdeploy\drvs /W:4`	Search all ServerGuide drivers sets for Windows Server 2003 x64 regardless of machine type.
`tksearch f:\sgdeploy\drvs /WP:f:\w2000\i386\prodspec.ini`	Search all ServerGuide drivers sets for Windows Server 2000 regardless of machine type.
`tksearch f:\sgdeploy\drvs /M:8853,7978`	Search all ServerGuide drivers sets for systems with machine type 8853 and 7978 regardless the NOS type.
`tksearch f:\sgdeploy\drvs /M:8853 /W:f:\sgdeploy\os\w23_std`	Search all ServerGuide drivers sets for systems with machine type 8853 and Windows 2003 Standard.
`tksearch f:\sgdeploy\drvs /M:8853,7978 /B:`	Search all ServerGuide drivers sets for systems with machine type 8853 and 7978 regardless the NOS type. The search results are saved as environment variables in Batch file drvset.bat.
`tksearch f:\sgdeploy\drvs /M:8853 /WP:F:\sgdeploy\os\w23_ee /B:drivers.bat`	Search all ServerGuide drivers sets for systems with machine type 8853 and Windows 2003 The search results are saved as environment variables in the batch file drivers.bat.