This article is intended to provide another solution to install HSA packs for your Think product in a ConfigMgr Task Sequence.
For an in-depth overview of these HSA packs and installation script, refer to this article.
To make this process a bit easier and to reduce the number of steps in your Task Sequence, this solution goes hand in hand with an older post: Dynamically Updating BIOS.
With versions of Windows 10 since 1809, Microsoft has introduced the concept of Modern Drivers. These new drivers have a few requirements:
The Lenovo Updates Catalog has been upgraded to the V3 format. The catalog is still hosted at the same URL:
https://download.lenovo.com/luc/v2/LenovoUpdatesCatalog2v2.cab
The URL and file name did not change so as to avoid all subscribers having to change their subscription settings. The V3 format simply adds some additional files that allow the updates in the catalog to be categorized.
This option leverages the Lenovo cloud repository feature in Update Retriever. By choosing this option, only the package XML's will be downloaded to the repository while the full content will be hosted by Lenovo.
When using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), the ZTIGather.wsf script will pull important information MDT needs and place it into variables for usage during a task sequence. The %Model% variable is a key piece of information during task sequences especially for targeting software and drivers.
This post will describe how you can manage Lenovo System Update on Windows 10/11 devices with Intune.
System Update v5.07.0110 and later supports Blob storage access via HTTPS
When it comes to managing a centralized Update Retriever repository, challenges arise with widely distributed environments. This is where leveraging a cloud storage solution can bring value.
Previously, Lenovo provided two separate apps (Lenovo Settings and Lenovo Companion) that allowed the user to change hardware settings, run diagnostic scans, and check for software and driver updates. As of December 2017, all of the features in those two apps (discontinued) were merged into a single app Commercial Vantage
This post will walk through deploying Commercial Vantage as a ConfigMgr application.
This feature allows an admin to create a collection of the hardware drivers for a specified model in a format that can be imported into Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) or Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to support OS Deployment.
This walk-through will cover deploying ThinkPad BIOS updates with Intune. These are provided as standalone executables so adding them as a Win32 app will involve converting them to the .intunewin format using the Win32 Content Prep Tool.