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
So if you haven’t read my last post yet, Dell Command Update – pulling back the curtains – GARYTOWN ConfigMgr Blog, you should, as I go into how Dell Command Update (DCU) gets it’s feed of information under the hood. That is the basis for a lot of things I’ll be doing. In this post, … Read more
TLDR: You need to learn SKU’s (SystemSKUNumber) for Dell systems if you want to be successful in automation for Dell. – Script on GitHub for GARYTOWN’s Dell PS Functions early beta Alright, so I write a lot of PowerShell functions around Dell Command Update, (DCU) and Dell updates, basically leveraging the feed that DCU uses … Read more
Dell Command Update Offline Repo SeriesPart 1: Dell Command Update – Leveraging with ConfigMgr – Offline Repo OverviewPart 2: Dell Command Update – Create Custom Catalog for Offline RepoPart 3: Dell Command Update – Creating the Offline Repo ContentPart 4: Dell Command Update – Offline Repo – TS Integration So I’m going back a bit … Read more
This is the post where it all comes together, and we pull down the offline repo to the endpoint and call DCU to install the updates. Dell Command Update Offline Repo SeriesPart 1: Dell Command Update – Leveraging with ConfigMgr – Offline Repo OverviewPart 2: Dell Command Update – Create Custom Catalog for Offline RepoPart … Read more