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.
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.
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.
Operating System Deployment support for Windows 11 ARM 64 devices is now supported in the 2403 release of Configuration Manager. This guide will demonstrate how to deploy Windows 11 to the Qualcomm equipped ThinkPad X13s.
Recently we have experienced an increase of reported issues when importing drivers into Configuration Manager. After a successful import, the import wizard goes to copy the drivers to the package and distribute the package to the distribution point(s), yet an error is received.
The Lenovo Device Management Module 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.