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Current Drivers, Firmware, and BIOS During Autopilot Pre-Provisioning With Intune and LCU

This post replaces the earlier Autopilot + Thin Installer method. Thin Installer still works, but the Lenovo.Client.Update (LCU) PowerShell module is the current, supported way to drive updates from a script: it queries, downloads, and silently installs applicable driver, firmware, and BIOS updates for a Lenovo device, without the dependency of Thin Installer. Wrapping it in a script and packaging that as an Intune Win32 app lets you run the same update pass unattended — including during an Autopilot for pre-provisioned deployment. This post walks through a wrapper script built for exactly that, and the packaging and detection rules that make it behave inside Intune.

  • 5 min read

Introducing ThinkVantage Repository Manager

Managing a local Lenovo update repository has traditionally meant Update Retriever — a tool that gets the job done but leaves little room for automation or operational visibility. ThinkVantage Repository Manager (TVRM) is its modern replacement: a WPF GUI backed by a full PowerShell module that supports multiple repositories, per-model targeting, and a per-repository audit log that tracks every operation by user and timestamp.

  • 6 min read

Introducing: Commercial Vantage Policy Manager for Intune

Commercial Vantage ships ADMX/ADML templates for configuring its policies, and the documented path for Intune is to either ingest those templates and configure each setting or create a custom template profile and add each individual policy as an OMA-URI setting. That works, but can be tedious. Commercial Vantage Policy Manager is a WPF-based PowerShell GUI that takes the same policies and deploys them as a single Custom OMA-URI profile through the Microsoft Graph API — no template ingestion required.

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Community Tool Spotlight: PowerBios – WMI BIOS Utility for Lenovo

PowerBios is a free, community-developed Windows utility by Claude Boucher (SomeTools) that lets you read, modify, and export BIOS settings on Lenovo ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, and ThinkStation devices using the WMI interface — locally or remotely. It's not an official Lenovo product, but it's a genuinely useful tool for anyone who regularly works with Lenovo BIOS configuration.

  • 4 min read

HSA Best Practices Guide

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Hardware Support Apps (HSAs) are a core part of the modern Windows driver model — UWP/MSIX apps published by OEMs or IHVs that extend a base driver, typically delivered via the Microsoft Store. Common examples include Intel Graphics Command Center, AMD Software, Realtek Audio Console, and Lenovo hardware control apps. They are a fundamental piece of the Declarative, Componentized, Hardware Support Apps (DCH) driver architecture introduced in Windows 10 1809.

Understanding how HSAs are designed to work — and where enterprise management intersects with that design — is critical to deploying and maintaining a clean, supportable Windows environment.