Dell Client PowerShell Provider Beta now available

Is there a download link somewhere?

Here it is...!

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/6901.dell-client-powershell-provider.aspx 

How to setup the Dell Client PowerShell Provider, for further instructions click here.

it's taken all morning but I finally got the DellBIOSProvider-installer script to work.  I think.  There doesn't seem to be a way to check that all is well.   I had to uncomment the line 58 to get it to work.  

When I place the line "import-module "C:\Program Files\Dell\PowerShell\Modules\DellBIOSProvider\DellBIOSProvider.dll" -Verbose " into the profile.ps1 script I get the following when I open a powershell session.   I get the following.

Windows PowerShell

Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

VERBOSE: Loading module from path 'C:\Program Files\Dell\PowerShell\Modules\DellBIOSProvider\DellBIOSProvider.dll'.

VERBOSE: Starting PS provider DellSmbiosprov

VERBOSE: .NET Version: 4.0.30319.34014

VERBOSE: Performing InitializeDefaultDrives operation on the 'DellSmbiosprov'provider.

VERBOSE: Performaing operation New-PSDrive for the provider DellSmbiosprov.

FALIURE:drive DellSmbios: could not be created.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>

What is going wrong?

It could be a number of things.

Is the HAPI driver installed? 

has the module already been imported? 

You can force the import if needed by adding the -force switch.

Scrool down to where it says that on the right.

I have been trying to configure DellsmBIOS:\PowerManagement\AutoOnTime and I noticed that the only options that may be changed are the days of the week (Everyday, Weekdays, Select Days), but there doesn't appear to be a way to set the time of day. Could we get some documentation or clarification on this one? Thanks in advance.

Hi UAAH, 

Sorry, Current Beta version doesn't support the operation of custom attributes. the next version of Dell Client PowerShell Provider may have this features supported.

Karthik,

Great. Thanks for the clarification. Glad you guys are making these it will be helpful for my organization moving forward.

Quick question: I've been able to enable the AutoOnTime seting on a Venue 11 to Weekdays, but how do you also configure the associated time of day that I want it to wake?

Hi MATF, 

Sorry, Set operation of time parameters are not supported in current build since those are custom attributes.

thanks for choosing Dell. 

Hi DAVE-BESD,

Yes, it works on Version 4.0 also. Can you please check the Install Instruction text file and let us know your steps if you are still facing the problem in importing. 

Install Instructions text file will be present in the DellCommandPowerShellProvider.zipx file. 

I figured out the problem if you load powershell x86 on a 64bit system and try and load the module it will fail with the following error: 

Import-Module : Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program
Files\Dell\PowerShell\Modules\DellBIOSProvider\DellBIOSProvider.dll' or one of its dependencies.
An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.At C:\Program
Files\Dell\PowerShell\Modules\DellBIOSProvider\DellBIOSProvider-installer.ps1:65 char:2
+ import-module .\DellBIOSProvider.psd1 -Verbose
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Import-Module], BadImageFormatException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.BadImageFormatException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Impor
tModuleCommand

Set-Location : Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'DellSmbios' does not exist.At
C:\Program Files\Dell\PowerShell\Modules\DellBIOSProvider\DellBIOSProvider-installer.ps1:67
char:2
+ cd DellSmbios:
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (DellSmbios:String) [Set-Location], DriveNotFoundE
xception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DriveNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetLocationCommand

solution is to load the full 64bit bit version of powershell on 64bit systems 

Hello Karthik,

I'm looking to implement PS Provider with my company.  Is Dell Client PS Provider compatible with all Dell Precision, Latitude, Optiplex, and Venue desktops/laptops?  I guess what I really would like to know is if there's a Dell machine that cannot run PS Provider?

Thanks!