Managing BIOS settings across Dell fleets can be fiddly, especially when you need the work to run inside Task Sequences and WinPE. The DeployR repository’s Dell BIOS folder provides two pragmatic approaches—CCTK (Dell Command | Configure) and a native WMI-based method—so you can pick the one that best fits your environment and constraints. I wrote … Read more
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