Update 3/17 – Update a couple sections to fix Bug in Script with assistance from the Dell BIOS Dev team. Uploaded the TS Export of this section. Download HERE: 3/24 – Removed all of the Bios Files and Update Utility to comply with Dell’s EULA. Task Sequence Export HERE – You can import this into … Read more
I’ve recently taken a little time to automate the Updates of our HP Laptops. I’ve found that HP Has different Bios Update programs based on the age of the machine. Documentation was a bit lacking as well. I’m assuming that other HP machines will fall into one of these two methods I’m using. I’m creating … Read more
UPDATE: 6/14 – A few days after I wrote this, Nickolaj posted a nice way to automate this for Dell Systems. Check it out HERE. Great post, I look forward to trying out. I wanted to make sure that during Windows 10 OSD, machines were getting set to UEFI and Secure Boot. I did not … Read more
First, you’ll need to add global conditions for your model, I was able to use @agerlund Kent Agerlund’s blog to achieve this: http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/global-conditions-in-configmgr-2012/These next few parts are borrowed directly from his post (When a Master creates good content, why re-invent the wheel): Creating the condition, open the ConfigMgr. administrator console, select Software Library, Application … Read more
In Post 1, we created the collections, now we’ll create the Scripts used to Deploy the Bios Updates All of the scripts, along with cctk tools needed are located here: http://garytown.com/Downloads/DellBiosUpdateScripts.zip Note: CCTK – Recommend brushing up on it here: http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN294541/enDell Bios Command Line syntax: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/3461.legacy-bios-updates In our environment, we use Bitlocker, so I had … Read more