Not sure where I can post stuff like this. Dell Drivers automagically
I had a really hard time looking for an easy way to download drivers onto a system. My company has Dell equipment. If you are looking for an easy way to get downloads for all the dell drivers and keep them updated on your system here is how I found to do it (Please correct me if you know a better way or I am doing this wrong).
1. Go and download the Dell CommandUpdate
Software http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/7534.dell-command-update
2. The silent Parameter to use with it is "/s"
This software comes with a command line interface for batch scripting...... here is the reference
http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/dell-comnd-update-v2.0_User's%20Guide_en-us.pdf
3. The simple version of the batch script is simply
start /wait /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\CommandUpdate" dcu-cli.exe
4. Run that through PDQ Deploy
5. Reboot
Comments
Excellent! I'm already using inventory to find machines with out of date Bios's, and was about start scripting an update script. This has just saved me a bunch of work!
As a note, it would be more efficient to set up an auto deploy with this as well. Thus always keeping your machines up-to-date.
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