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Automate Partition Sizes When Using Windows 11 ISO

As more corporate customers are moving to Intune and other cloud based tools for device management, there has been and probably will continue to be a decrease in the use of imaging technologies to deploy operating systems to devices. Most of the time, customers are using the OEM provided preload on the device as the initial operating system installation. Customers then leverage tools to continue with device configuration until the desired state is met.

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SU Helper Use Cases in a Modern World

The SU Helper utility was introduced to programmatically trigger the System Update AddIn of Commercial Vantage. Let's see how we can leverage SU Helper in different scenarios across Microsoft's Endpoint Management solutions.

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Introducing: Lenovo Client Scripting Module 2.0.0

Lenovo Client Scripting Toolbox

Update June 12, 2025: Version 2.3.0 is now available in the PowerShell Gallery!

Back in January of 2024 we introduced the Lenovo Device Management Module. Today we are replacing it with the new Lenovo.Client.Scripting Module which is a PowerShell module that provides several useful cmdlets for making it easier to manage Lenovo commercial PCs. The module supports Lenovo's commercial portfolio of ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation products.

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Deploying the Intel Processor Power Management Package

The Intel Processor Power Management (PPM) package is now available on the Lenovo support site. This will install a provisioning package on a supported system to tune power mode settings across AC/DC (Best Power Efficiency, Balanced, Best Performance). These power settings can help avoid running the system at higher temperatures which could throttle the CPU.

This article covers how to deploy the package using Microsoft Intune.

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Introducing: SU Helper Utility

SUHelper

The SU Helper Utility provides a command-line interface for triggering the System Update process of Commercial Vantage. This seperate utility is not included with Commercial Vantage and must also be deployed to clients where it is needed. Let's see some of the things we can do with this utility.

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Changing the BIOS Supervisor Password with Intune and the Think BIOS Config Tool

For security purposes, there may be a requirement to change the supervisor password for BIOS access. There are a few ways to accomplish this, either programmatically using a couple lines of code or with the Think BIOS Config Tool. The former would be easiest but does pose quite the risk by exposing your supervisor password in plain text, which is a big no-no. So instead, we're going to use the Think BIOS Config Tool and an encrypted password file to tackle this scenario, which has become quite common these days it seems.