Dell Command Update Offline Repo Series
Part 1: Dell Command Update – Leveraging with ConfigMgr – Offline Repo Overview
Part 2: Dell Command Update – Create Custom Catalog for Offline Repo
[You are Here] Part 3: Dell Command Update – Creating the Offline Repo Content
Part 4: Dell Command Update – Offline Repo – TS Integration
Ok, so now that we downloaded our Zip file, we can extract that and follow the directions to create our content.
Looking at the Readme, looks like we need to specify the xml file with -c, and the target location of where to build the repo with -t, and -b to control the XML file that is going to be created that gets used with Dell Command Update. the -b will make more sense later.
- -c = Optiplex 3090.xml
- -t = C:\Users\GaryBlok\Downloads\O3090
- -b = C:\Drivers\OfflineRepo
- This is the location that the XML file will be update to, this means, when you run DCU, the repo must be located in that folder for it to work. This is handy for manual troubleshooting, you can place the Repo in that folder on your test machines, and test DCU command line.
- NOTE, since the cm cache gets downloaded to different folder names each time, we edit the Catalog XML file on the fly in the TS to update the baseLocation information.
Ok, looks like it finished, it failed on the InvColPC download, but I don’t use that anyway, so I’m going to move on. Lets take a look at the content:
Looking at the newly created XML file vs the original, you can see the base location was updated to match what we put in our command line:
Now I’ll copy all this content to my ConfigMgr Source Server and Create a package with what is needed. Remember, this baseLocation will be updated during the TS to match where the TS downloads the package to.
I copied the folders and the XML file to my share:
And the package:
Alright, so we’ve built our Repo content, created a package with it, the next post I’ll cover adding DCU into the Task Sequence, downloading this content to the device, and having DCU use this offline repo to install the updates.
Hopefully get to that post soon! Along the way, if I skimmed over anything to quick, or left a step out, let me know and I’ll expand on it.
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