Hey folks, this seems like a topic that keeps coming up, despite the fact I had assumed everyone was creating large EFI volumes (984MB) by now, but I keep finding folks who have 100MB and run into issues. Recent email from customer: GitHub Code: garytown/CM_PowerShell_Snips/SystemVolumeBinFiles.ps1 Microsoft Method for Cleanup: “We couldn’t update system reserved partition” … Read more
Welcome back, in the first post HP DCU to HP CMSL I went over how you can use PowerShell to manage your BIOS settings, in this post we’ll dig a bit deeper into BCU configuration files, and how you can convert them to PowerShell. [ Script on GitHub ] This would also be a great … Read more
HP BIOS Configuration Utility (BCU) has been around since longer than I’ve been a system administrator, I can’t find the exact date it was released, but it’s been around for a while. Back in 2022, HP deprecated it and said no development was going to be made moving forward. Well, HP decided to continue supporting … Read more
This is a tip for making sure your devices get turned on regularly (Via BIOS Settings), then you can also turn them off automatically as well (Via Scheduled Task). I have a lot of test devices in my lab, and I like to make sure they turn on at least once a week to check … Read more
Ok, so you have HP Devices, and you want to use Sure Recover over WiFi on their newer devices. But it’s a pain to connect to WiFi from the BIOS. How about, you preconfigure those WiFi SSIDs & Passwords on the devices while they are in the Full OS and working normally, then when you … Read more