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Charles Tousignant

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Updated Modern Driver/BIOS Management with CMG Support

Hello, This is a long and overdue update on a solution I started working on last year to allow my organization to use the modern driver management solution without the need of the custom webservice. I also wanted the solution to use the built-in task sequence steps as much as possible to allow other administrators to customize the solution to their need without the need to go modify a big PowerShell script.

Modern BIOS Management with the Administration Service

2021-04-27 update: The solution now works over CMG. Please see this post for details. If you haven’t seen my first blog post about modern driver management, the quick summary is that the solution uses packages created with the Driver Automation Tool and the administration service to retrieve information on these packages and identify the most suitable driver package to apply in a task sequence. In this second part, I’ll be discussing the changes and improvements done to the existing solution to also dynamically retrieve and filter and apply BIOS updates.

Modern Driver Management with the Administration Service

2021-04-27 update: The solution now works over CMG. Please see this post for details. Hello! Today I’d like to share with you a new solution I’ve developed to allow me to use the free Modern Driver Management solution from the team at MSEndpointMgr at my work. My goal is to use the process developed by them for managing drivers in a task sequence and convert it to use the ConfigMgr Administration Service since my company won’t allow me to install their third-party web service.