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.
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.
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:
There may be a need to run a report on your Think products to check which BIOS settings are enabled or disabled, or if there is even a BIOS supervisor password set.
This post will walk through creating a simple custom report in ConfigMgr that will display the following:
Now that your Windows 7 to 10 migration is complete, you may want to upgrade the TPM Spec version from 1.2 to 2.0 to take full advantage of Windows 10's security features, like Device Guard and Credential Guard.