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

PowerShell Script – KB5025885: How to manage the Windows Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot changes associated with CVE-2023-24932

Required Reading: KB5025885: How to manage the Windows Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot changes associated with CVE-2023-24932 – Microsoft Support Related: Words of Warning Once you’ve applied the mitigations outlined in the KB, the device is difficult to work with when it comes to boot media / reimaging. Personally, I’d only do this on some … 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

ARM64 – Creating your WinPE

TLDR: Script on GitHub: garytown/OSD/ARM64/Create-WinPEARM64.ps1 NOTE, this will be the first of a few posts dealing with my ARM devices experience. I now have a single ARM test device (consumer grade Samsung Galaxy Book Go – NP340XLA-KA1US) and hopefully a MS Surface device soon, and eventually some yet to be released HP devices. Future posts … Read more