Dell Command Update - is it needed? : r sysadmin - Reddit The big deal with DCU is that it has a command line interface so you can send it commands with whatever MDM tool you have and make your clients install all needed Dell firmware and updates We use it all the time Especially right before we do a win10 Feature Update Fantastic product that occaisionally gets a vulnerability found
Automating Dell Command Update : r MDT - Reddit The gist is it will check if Dell Command Update is installed and if it is, it will run it and install all available updates If it's not installed, it will look for the Dell Command Update msi and silently install it and then run it silently
Is it necessary to install SupportAssist? : r Dell - Reddit I just prefer the Dell Command | Update program which is current at v 5 0 0; however, I have seen endpoints where Support Assist is pre-installed and the other program isn't specifically listed as compatible in the online Dell Support site lists It's a tad inconsistent so keep both tools in mind, but Command | Update is less resource demanding and less finnicky imho
Cant install SupportAssist so cant download drivers. . . : r Dell - Reddit Odd, below the "Let Dell automatically find driver updates for you" I always get another option to "Access the complete list of drivers and downloads for [model] " I click on "Visit list" to choose the driver manually Try another browser, if that doesn't work, try Dell Update (distinct from Dell Command Update - and don't ask me why Dell has at least four different apps that update drivers!)
Bios update on password protected pc : r sysadmin - Reddit Dell Command Update ('DCU') has the ability to run updates on a BIOS that has a password, you just either have to store it in the configuration of Dell Command Update on each machine manually (no thanks!) or provide Dell Command Update the (encrypted) password when you perform the update For the latter I'm talking about using dcu-cli exe, which is the command line executable for Dell Command
Dell Command Update has ADMX Templates : r sysadmin - Reddit Happy Read Only Friday! Just discovered today that Dell Command Update has ADMX Group Policy templates They are located in the install folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\CommandUpdate\ADMX" Just need to copy them to your central store in SYSVOL then you can make GPOs based on that You can also upload the ADMX to Intune
Dell Command Update : r Intune - Reddit We deploy dell command with winget then use a powershell script with a URL to a CDN containing the configuration file and have Intune check this file every three hours If the CDN file is modified the new version will be downloaded to each device applying the new settings Then we use winget auto update to keep the software up to date