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Updating DELL BIOS from Windows Updates

David Moon 581 Reputation points
2024-11-22T00:44:59.4133333+00:00

Hi Folks

Intune/Autopatch/Windows Updates, can do BIOS firmware updates.

However, is this a good idea to update the firmware this way? As i understand, Windows Updates does not suspend bitlocker for third party driver updates.

We currently let Autopatch update the BIOS firmware for DELL's, and roughly 80% may succeed.... but there are ones that don't. We suspect it is due to Bitlocker not being suspended.

Then the strange thing is, why do majority succeed then? Shouldn't all of them fail, if we are not suspending bitlocker?

Thanks.

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  1. Pavel yannara Mirochnitchenko 12,616 Reputation points MVP
    2024-11-22T07:36:46.5566667+00:00

    Updating firmware is something you must do nowadays, because of the security becoming more and more important and hackers started to use firmware as attack level as well. If Intune Update Drivers solution does not do the trick for you and don't want to do Dell integration to your Intune, you could try my solution, which picks up more drivers and firmware than Windows Update for Business does.

    See my blog and link to script here.

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