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Hardware Support Apps without Microsoft Store

With versions of Windows 10 since 1809, Microsoft has introduced the concept of Modern Drivers. These new drivers have a few requirements:

  • Declarative: The driver must be INF installable with no co-installers
  • Componentized: The driver must support the architecture of having a base driver with optional extension drivers for customizations above the base functionality
  • Hardware Support Apps: Any software required for working with the device must be in the form of a UWP app available from the Microsoft Store and will be associated to this driver in the INF.
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Hosting a repository in an Azure blob

Azure

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.

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Deploying Commercial Vantage with ConfigMgr

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.

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Tracking Thin Installer Update History With ConfigMgr Current Branch

Due to customer feedback, Lenovo is introducing a couple of new features focused on tracking updates. Traditionally, updates installed on the client were logged in the Updates_log(timestamp).txt.

Admittedly, parsing through the log to find out which updates were skipped, installed, or failed is not that easy. If you're deploying a task sequence to your Lenovo systems that runs Thin Installer, you can only see if Thin Installer runs or not. How do you tell which updates installed without logging into each system and checking the logs?

A new switch can now be added to your Thin Installer command line that will do the following upon execution: