Hi everybody, its Mari with dell technologies thank you for joining us
another video as we continue to explore the power and functionality we get by
integrating in the Dell client command suite with SCCM. In this video we're
gonna go over a new feature with SCCM 1806. Microsoft has released the ability
for us to enable third-party updates directly in SCCM, what that means for us
is that we now have the ability to natively support Dell BIOS drivers and
firmware revisions within SCCM. Let's just take one second to talk about the
efficiency that we can gain from that simple change. Right now enterprise's
already have a monthly patch cycle in place or maybe a quarterly back cycle in
place to roll out patch updates from Microsoft.
We Dell from an enterprise standpoint have a very good handle on all of the
different drivers, bios and farmer revisions that are out in the
environment. In today's cybersecurity stage that can become a security problem,
you know we're constantly giving notification saying hey we need to go
update virus revision a or we need to upgrade driver release B to make sure
that we're protected against a new threat. With this integration of SCCM 1806
and the Dell client commands sweet we
now as IT administrators have a single process to update all of our Dell
specific updates and microsoft specific updates using the same exact process so
that being said let's go ahead and get into it. As you can see I already have
secm open and if I come into administration updates and servicing you
will see that I'm already running SCCM 1806 and on the feature sets you will
already see that we've enabled third-party update support on clients, if
your third-party support is not enabled all you have to do is just right click
and select turn on now that we verify that it is enabled let's go ahead and
make the right setting changes we need so that SCCM knows we want to roll out
third-party updates. The first thing we need to do is configure our software
update point so to do that over here in administration we're going to go into
site configuration, sites we're going to right click our primary site and scroll
down to configure site components software update point. Okay once that's
done we're gonna select third-party updates and here we're going to enable
our third-party software updates feature. Now if anyone remembers back in the day
with scope you actually had to create a certificate the clients used to validate
that your third-party updates were signed correctly, one of the cool
features that Microsoft did with this is actually let SCCM implyin manage its own
certificates so selecting this radio button and selecting okay. Will enable
the software update point to roll out third-party software updates and it will
get us as IT administrators out of the game of having to manage another
certificate okay. Now that the software update point has
been configured we need to make one more change this time to the client settings
so while in the administration tab we're gonna scroll down into client settings
and we're gonna edit our default client settings, once that's open we're gonna
scroll down to software updates and if we drop the box down you'll see down
here that we now have the option enable third-party software updates we're gonna
go ahead and select yes and okay and with those setting changes SCCM is now
ready to support third-party updates so now let's go into software library
software updates and you're gonna see I'll just show you in my all software
updates I already have seeped down the normal microsoft is that we've already
deploying right but if I come down a little further to third-party software
update catalogs you're gonna see that the Dell catalog is here. All we've got
to do is right-click and say subscribe to catalog. Once it's open you'll see
here that we're downloading the cat file from dell.com and we get a little
description here stating that it's supporting system driver BIOS firmware
and software updates for Dell business clients. So once we verify that that's
all good we're gonna go ahead and select next, okay it'll download the catalog
once downloaded and select next again. So before I can actually subscribe to it I
do need to approve that the Dell certificate is valid so to do that I'm
gonna go ahead forget okay it was issued to Dell by
Symantec that looks good to me so I'll go ahead and select okay and check the
box and select next. Okay once I select it next you see here that I have my
confirmation settings this looks good to me so I select next again. Okay it's been
completed successfully and I have now been subscribed to the Dell client
catalog so I'll go ahead and select close. Now that I've subscribed to it
let's go ahead and seek down the Dell catalog to SCCM so to do that we're
gonna right click and select sync now. So here we're gonna get confirmation if we
want to sync the catalog down we're gonna select yes and let that sync. So to
manage it and to kind of watch it and see where it's going let's go to open up
the right log file so in file explorer we're gonna browse to our install
directory of SCCM in this environment it's on c program files microsoft
configuration manager we're gonna go into logs and we're gonna search for the
IS Vlog perfect. Let's go ahead and open up the SMS underscore ISV updates
underscore seek agent log and here you can see that it's starting to download
all of the metadata for the updates published to the dell cloud so why don't
we go ahead we're gonna pause the video while the rest of the data is
downloading and we'll be back in a little bit. Okay we're back so as you can
see the metadata has seeped down to our SCCM server and again all things in the
SCCM you're always going to see a little yellow and a little red so I really
wouldn't worry for this error message what I'm getting out of this is 4240
updates or seek successfully. So I'm gonna have to close that closed file
explorer and at this part we now need to go in and configure the software update
point to synchronize the Dell products into a SCCM so to do that we're going to
go back into administration, we're going to go into sites and, we're gonna edit
the software update point by right-clicking our test site going into
configure site components software update point. When the software update
point component properties dialog box opens up, we need to go into products and we are
gonna enable all of the Dell BIOS drivers application and form where
products in disk up so let's go ahead and select ok, once that's done let's go
ahead and sync SCCM software updates so to do that we'll go back over to
software library. This time we're gonna go into all software updates and we're
gonna select synchronize software updates. Here we're gonna get prompted to
verify we want to synchronize the updates we'll say yes so just like last
time we're gonna open up the write log file so we can watch the synchronization
happen so we're gonna open up file explorer, go back to our install
directory which in this environment is C-Program Files-Microsoft
configuration manager. When you go into logs and this time we're gonna open up
the W sync manager log at the very bottom. Now we're gonna sit watch this
log but what you'll see here now it's going to go ahead and seat down all of
the Dell updates into SCCM so we're gonna go ahead and pause the video again
and we'll be back when the synchronization is completed.
Okay the synchronization is done so as you can see here in the logs we see that
it's done its Dink synchronization completed and we get the message here in
the log this has done synchronizing SMS with WSO server. So now let's go ahead
and close out and here in SCCM we're just gonna click out and back in to the
all software updates so it updates the view. Once the view updates you see the
lot of software updates now so to filter out just the Dell updates we're gonna
come in to add criteria scroll down to vendor and say vendor is
Dell and search again. Now that we filtered it down you can see just the
Dell updates that are in the software updates catalog one thing that I do want
to call that if you notice all of them are showing up as unknown the reason
they're showing up as unknown is because we need to deploy the open manage client
to our Dell systems before they can report back into SCCM and know what
software updates are needed. So to find that we're going to come up here to
search and we're gonna type it open manage.
Once the search is done you're gonna see the dell openmanage inventory agent for
dell business client systems this is the agent that we have to deploy out first
before we can deploy software updates so to do that let's right-click and select
publish third-party software update content, we'll go ahead and select ok
again and just like last time let's open the log up to watch it so back in our
logs directory we're gonna go to the ISV updates log. All right now you can see
here in the log that it actually completed and downloaded the content
successfully so the next step is to go back into SCCM and manually kick off
another update synchronization so to do that we'll go back into SCCM let's close
out of this for a second and we're gonna select synchronize software updates
again. Here we say yes and just like last time let's go back and open up the
W sync manager log and just like we did after our first in ization let's watch
the log and wait until everything's been synchronized. Ok the synchronization is
done so here you see now that it's synchronized the update Dell Openmanage
inventory agent back into SCCM so now that's done if we come back into
SCCM and here in software updates we're gonna search for the open manage client.
As you can see the icon for the open manager inventory agent has become green
that green icon means that the data is downloaded and it's actually ready to be
deployed so all we have to do now is right-click the inventory agent and
deploy, once that a point was it opens let's go ahead and change the deployment
name so we'll say Dell open manage inventory agent, we'll browse and deploy
it to our desktop collection. Well select next again here we'll go
ahead and say that it's a available update just so that we can actually see
it in software Center and actually control the install go ahead and next
again we'll say soon as possible. We'll say display in
software Center go I just leave the defaults here next again hey over create
a new deployment package so let's go ahead and give it a name we'll called
the open manage inventory agent, here we'll store the data on our SCCM server.
We'll go ahead and say next, well automatically distribute the package out
to our DP. Well select our distribution point and select ok, let's go ahead and
select next. Now here's where we specified the source location for the
software update that you need to download, I know it sounds a little weird
but you want to leave this on download software updates from the internet as he
seems gonna realize that the contents already been downloaded and then not
trying to download it again. So let's go ahead select next again we'll leave our
defaults, we'll leave the defaults and finish.
At this point as you see mistaking the Dell Openmanage inventory agent that we downloaded, packaging it up
and deploying it out. As you can see it's done so let's go ahead and select close.
With the update deployed it's time to test so let's head over to assets and
compliance devices and find one of the workstations we deployed the updates you.
We're now going to connect remotely by right-clicking going to start-remote
control and logging in remotely. Once we get in we're going to update the
workstation policies and verify that the open manage inventory agent installs
successfully. Let's go ahead and launch the Start menu well actually let's go
ahead and drag this down a little bit first we can see it there we go it's
going to. Launch the Start menu and then we'll go into control panel, once into
control panel will open up system and security and scroll down to
configuration manager.
Once there we'll head up the actions tab and we will run a machine policy
retrieval and evaluation cycle. At this point the workstations gonna check back
in to SCCM and see if there's any new machine policies for it should also see
that the new updates earlier and we go ahead and actually open up the log see
windows SCCM logs and open up the policy agent log and you can see now that it's
actually getting new policies as we speak. So now that that is done let's go
ahead and run the software updates scan cycle this will have the workstation
check-in against the Windows Update and SCCM to see there's any new updates.
Ok just like last time we go back to the log directory and this time we open up
the updates deployment scan and we see that there is a software update
available now for the Dell OpenManage interviewer agent. Now let's run a
deployment evaluation cycle and at this point we should be getting the
evaluation for one assignment that is there so let's go into Software Center
now and see if the patch is there.
perfect software Center loaded if you come into updates you see that we have
the dell openmanage inventory agent let's go ahead and say install. Ok as you
can see the agent is installed it verified that the installation is
complete and then just to make real sure let's go ahead and open up absent
features. And here in the installed apps and features list we see the
Dell Openmanage inventory agent for Dell business client systems. Now that is
done let's go ahead and close out.
and restart the workstation. On boot the service will load and populate WMI with
the necessary information and then immediately close so just to verify that
the information is populated into WMI successfully after the install I went
ahead and restarted the workstation. Now that the workstation is back online
let's come up to file connect and type in the workstation name and perfect or
log back in again. The Openmanage agent has now been installed and the
workstation has rebooted at this point the Dell inventory agent has populated
WMI with all of the information needed for the updates to work so at this point
all we need to do is go into control panel and kick off an update skin.
So let's go back into control panel again
system and security will scroll down into configuration manager hope the
actions tab and this time we're gonna go back and run an a software updates scan
cycle again right now perfect and just like last time we're gonna open up the
right lock so we can see so back in file explorer we'll browse to
see windows SCCM logs. Alright once it's open we're going to we're gonna scroll
down to update handler.
Okay it was done let's go ahead and send in a software deployment evaluation
cycle as well and now that information has been put into the SCCM database could
we come back into software library and we're back in the software updates the
information is now in SCCM saying what Dell updates are needed by that system
unfortunately we won't see it here these numbers like required installed do not
update until the data is summarized to summarize it we're gonna click up top
and click run a summarization. Here we're gonna select okay so the software
everyday compliance status runs and just like last time let's go ahead and get
back into the correct log so in file explorer we're to go back to our SCCM
install directory on this workstation in this environment that's at c program
files microsoft configuration manager we're gonna go into logs state system
dot log.
Okay here you can see that the update the status summarizer started and was
already completed so since it's done let's go back into SCCM that's right
click and have five to update our view and now the view should be updated so if
we want to see the updates that are required for environment we use come in
to add criteria say required and do all updates that were required that do not
equal zero and search. Now you can see that we came back and show that this
workstation not only needs Microsoft updates but also needs these Dell system
driver updates and Dell BIOS provision as well. I hope everyone enjoyed the
video and is comfortable with with implementing this in your own
environment just to recap we went through with SCCM 1806 and enable
third-party update support once that was enabled we went in subscribed the system
to the Dell epic catalog put the Dell updates into SCCM deployed out the open
manage client so the instructions back and verify that everything watch is
expected and we can now create software update groups that contain both
Microsoft and Dell patches on behalf of Dell Technologies. Thank you for taking
time to work with us today if you have any questions please feel free to leave
a comment in the section below you can also go online to www.dell.com\comment.
For more information about the dell client command suite and also for
documentation related to the dell command update catalog thanks everybody
and have a great day.