I was wondering if it's possible to make an Active Directory Group Policy for Dell Command Update? Set Dell Command Update settings to Automatic Updates with when updates found download and install updates.

Hello,

I am currently quite confused about the situation with Dell Command Update. I would like to introduce it in our company to manage driver and BIOS updates.

Initially, I created a package that installs .NET Desktop Runtime 8 first and then Dell Command Update Classic, because I read that this version supports CLI usage and GPO management via an ADMX template.

However, I noticed that some users already have Dell Command Update installed by a colleague, but in this case it is the Universal version that was installed manually.

After taking a closer look at the Universal version, I also found ADMX templates included. Does this mean the Universal version also supports GPO-based management?

While researching further, I came across additional confusing information. I read that Dell planned to discontinue the Classic version about three years ago, but it still seems to exist. I also saw references to version 5.7, but now I only see 5.6 again.

In addition, I found a post from someone who mentioned that they are still using version 5.5, claiming that it is more stable.

Could someone please clarify what the current situation is?
What actually happened with the different versions, and what would be the best and easiest approach for deploying Dell Command Update in a business environment?

Thank you very much for your help.

I'm kind of in Dell Command Update hell. I've configured command update via gpo to automatically do the updates. Half seem to update, half don't. GPO is applied on all.

The reasons seem to vary: on some the dell service is stopped and disabled. If you re-enable it, it seems to work for awhile but then shuts down again. Others I've used the cmd update GUI to manually check for any update and it shows none yet on the Dell website, there's a BIOS update.

Is anyone actually using this tool to manage driver / bios updates on Dell systems? I've got about 100 laptops so it isn't as though I can just run around and manually update them all.

We have multiple computers, and normally a tech would have to manually install the latest firmware updates on all Dell PCs and Laptops. Is there an easier way to do this?

So I'm wanting to push the BIOS updates that fix the ME vulnerability to our computers.

I can make it work through GPO by doing this:

• WMI filter for each model of computer where the BIOS version is less than the fixed version

• GPO running a startup/shutdown script which calls update.exe with parameters of /r /s /l=updatefilename.txt just so we've a lot of how it went

It seems to work but if all you have is AD/GPO and you have a fair number of machines using wi-fi I'm thinking they may not be on the network when the shutdown script tries to pull the file from sysvol.

I wondered if people have a more elegant way of dealing with this scenario without going out buying something?