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