u/TheM4jor

Hey guys,

I’m working on a POC for updating password‑protected Dell BIOS via an SCCM package, wrapped with PSADT, and I’m trying to understand the what are my options to pass an encrypted BIOS password to a Dell bios update tool.

What I found that could be used to update a Dell BIOS:

• Dell Command Update (DCU) can pass an encrypted BIOS password, but I’m not sure if that’s the only supported method.
• BIOSPassword.exe from "Dell Client Integration Pack"
• The standard exe you get, when downloading a dell BIOS update

I didn't do a lot of Dell management in the past, so I would like to check with the community what tools can handle a Dell BIOS update, where it's password protected.
If DCU is my only option, is there a way to block users from manually doing a driver update/BIOS update scan? So that I could just use the cli tool? (I have a mixed environment, where not all machines have Internet)

P.S.

I already have a process using a Task Sequence, but this POC needs to use PSADT.