Mastering Dell Driver & BIOS Updates with Dell Command Update | Full Setup & Deployment Guide

In this educational video, I guide you through the complete process of packaging and configuring Dell Command | Update software using PowerShell. Dell Command Update is essential for automating the update of Dell hardware drivers and BIOS. To further streamline the process, I also demonstrate how to create an Intune Win32 package and deploy it using Microsoft Intune.

Time Table:
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Download installer files
05:36 Extract MSI file from exe file
09:36 Write install script in PowerShell to install Dell Command Update
22:12 Configure Dell Command Update and update script with settings
41:38 Create the .Intunewin file
46:58 Upload file to Intune and create Intune app
52:20 Test install Intune package (Dell Command Update)
57:57 Outro

By the end of this video, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of how to automate Dell hardware updates, including drivers and BIOS, and manage deployments efficiently using PowerShell and Intune (or another deployment tool such as ConfigMgr/SCCM)

PowerShell Script to install ##
Install Dell Command | Update 5.3
Author: John Bryntze
Date: 4th of July

Verify that log folder exists
if(!(test-path "c:\programdata\JBNlogs"))
{
new-item -ItemType directory "c:\programdata\JBNlogs\"
}

Declare a script root
$JBNScriptRoot = Split-Path -Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path

Installer variable
$JBNInstallFile = "$JBNScriptRoot\DellCommandUpdateApp.msi"
$JBNInstallParameters = "/qn /l c:\programdata\JBNlogs\install-DellCommandUpdate5.3x64.log /norestart"

Start-Process -filepath $JBNInstallFile -ArgumentList $JBNInstallParameters -Wait

Copy our XML settings to c:\programdata\dell
Copy-Item -Path $JBNScriptRoot\JBNSettings.xml c:\programdata\dell -Force

Configure Dell Command Update with our weekly Tuesday check at 9:00am with restarts
$JBNDCUCLI = "C:\Program Files\Dell\CommandUpdate\dcu-cli.exe"
$JBNDCUCLIArguments = "/configure -importSettings=c:\programdata\dell\JBNSettings.xml"

start-process -FilePath $JBNDCUCLI -ArgumentList $JBNDCUCLIArguments -Wait

Registry setting
Start-Process reg.exe -argumentlist "add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Dell\UpdateService\Clients\CommandUpdate\Preferences\CFG /v ShowSetupPopup /t reg_dword /d 0 /f /reg:64"



Links:
Download Dell Command | Update: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/fr...
Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool: https://github.com/Microsoft/Microsof...

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