HP BCU to HP CMSL

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

OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – Offline – HPIA Repo in CM Packages

From Series: OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – an Overview – Page has link to GitHub & TS Exports This is the last topic I’m covering, because it’s the most complicated one. This can look a lot of different ways depending on the way you want to implement. I’m going to demo two potential ways … Read more

OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – Offline – HPIA Repo on NAS / FileShare

From Series: OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – an Overview – Page has link to GitHub & TS Exports So in this blog series, now we’re moving to hosting the HP Softpaqs (Driver / Firmware etc Updates) ourselves, on our network, so we don’t need to download from HP, saving bandwidth, hopefully time, and having … Read more

OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – Online – Grab Content from HP Servers w/ Reference Files

From Series: OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – an Overview – Page has link to GitHub & TS Exports So this is pretty close to the last post, but here we’re going to take control over the content getting installed. We’re going to be creating reference files to feed into HPIA. What I’ve done, I … Read more