Use Windows 10 drivers on Windows 2016?

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lonbluster

Motherboard Asus Prime z270k

The "Simple pci controller" on Windows 2016 cannot get a driver from Windows Update.

But the driver for Windows 10 gets installed even though some of the installers say wrong version. How safe is it to use this driver?

Similarly the integrated Ethernet (-- Intel - LAN - Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V -- ) is found on Windows Update but the driver fails to install. But if I take a similar model I219LM (2) it installs safely.

Any recommendation for avoiding to install these similar drivers ??

So far I don't have particular trouble without these drivers on this hyper-v host.

Better without or with a non-official driver?

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