Updating Surface Pro 3 firmware (Cross Post)

Hi this is Scott McArthur and I just wanted to call attention to a blog that I worked on with some of our PFE engineers that just posted related to Surface. 

How to Update the Surface Pro 3 Firmware Offline using a USB Drive
https://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/10/20/how-to-update-the-surface-pro-3-firmware-offline-using-a-usb-drive.aspx

This blog shows you how you can update firmware from a Bootable WindowsPE USB flash drive.  This is useful for some scenarios where you need updated firmware BEFORE you do a deployment to the device.  Hope it helps with your Surface deployments

Scott McArthur
Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  How far ahead of the firmware releases do we have to stay with this kind of strategy?
  
  Let's say I cook the firmware updates into my SCCM boot images and a Surface with newer firmware installed than what's in the boot image shows up on the doorstep. Is there any harm in booting a new device to an image with an older version of the firmware included?