Dell PS provider - WinPE 10 - PowerShell 5.0

This is work in progress. Cannot say at the moment if WinPE support will be part of the next release.

Thanks

Vibha

Unfortunately, it does not appear to work in it's current implementation. Tested in WinPE 5 and 10. It appears that it is not an incompatibility with PowerShell 5, but rather a DLL that is trying to dynamically link to a library that is not included in WinPE.

If anyone happens to get this working, please let me know. I'm currently upgrading a bunch of our old imaging scripts from HTA+VBscript to PowerShell and would love to use this module in a PE environment to configure the BIOS and enable the TPM fo BitLocker pre-provisioning.

Please check the User's guide of newly launched 1.0 release -

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/dell-command-powershell-provider-v1.0/manuals

Section 5 is about setting up the DellBIOSProvider in Win PE environment.

Thanks

Vibha

I am excited to test this new version but..

Latitude E7240 is supported with A16 but only A15 is listed as possible to download for this model.

Were can I find A16 version to test new PS Module ?

Hi Daniel,

Please see the below link.

www.dell.com/.../advanced

Support site www.dell.com/.../advanced

Please refer:

www.dell.com/.../advanced

You should be able to find A16 there

Thank you Vibha,

I followed the documentation to get the PowerShell provider working on WinPE. After loading the module and getting child items of DellSMBIOS:\SystemInformation I get the following stack trace.

PS DellSmbios:\> Get-ChildItem DellSMBIOS:\SystemInformation

Attribute CurrentValue
--------- ------------
BIOSVersion A15
ServiceTag 2S7D9P1
AssetTag 4060796

Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write
protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at Dll_CLI.BIOSWrapper.GetCurrentValue(String category, String att, String& c
urrentValue)
at Dell.Smbios.PowerShell.Providers.DellBIOSProvider.ConstructAttributeObject
(String categoryName, ConfigDataConfigDataEntryFormSetFormConfigItem cfgitem)
at Dell.Smbios.PowerShell.Providers.DellBIOSProvider.GetChildItems(String pat
h, Boolean recurse)
at System.Management.Automation.SessionStateInternal.GetChildItems(CmdletProv
ider providerInstance, String path, Boolean recurse, CmdletProviderContext conte
xt)
at System.Management.Automation.SessionStateInternal.GetChildItems(String pat
h, Boolean recurse, CmdletProviderContext context)
at Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand.ProcessRecord()
at System.Management.Automation.Cmdlet.DoProcessRecord()
at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()
at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase.DoExecute()
at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.Inject(Object inpu
t, Boolean enumerate)
at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecute
Enumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)
at System.Management.Automation.PipelineOps.InvokePipeline(Object input, Bool
ean ignoreInput, CommandParameterInternal[][] pipeElements, CommandBaseAst[] pip
eElementAsts, CommandRedirection[][] commandRedirections, FunctionContext funcCo
ntext)
at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.ActionCallInstruction`6.Run(Inter
pretedFrame frame)
at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.R
un(InterpretedFrame frame)
at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.R
un(InterpretedFrame frame)
at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.Interpreter.Run(InterpretedFrame
frame)
at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.LightLambda.RunVoid1[T0](T0 arg0)

at System.Management.Automation.DlrScriptCommandProcessor.RunClause(Action`1
clause, Object dollarUnderbar, Object inputToProcess)
at System.Management.Automation.DlrScriptCommandProcessor.Complete()
at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase.DoComplete()
at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.DoCompleteCore(Com
mandProcessorBase commandRequestingUpstreamCommandsToStop)
at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecute
Enumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)
at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeHelper()
at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeThreadProc()
at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.PipelineThread.WorkerProc()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionCo
ntext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, C
ontextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, C
ontextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

Thank you very much for looking into this for me. I've been able to poll other areas of the SMBios provider, such as the TPM information. So far, this is the only error I have run into, although I'm in the early stages of implementing the PowerShell Provider in our workflow. Here is the output of the two commands you asked me to run;

PS DellSmbios:\> Get-ChildItem DellSMBIOS:\SystemInformation\AssetTag -verbose
VERBOSE: Performing operation Get-Item on target
DellBIOS:\SystemInformation\AssetTag

Attribute CurrentValue
--------- ------------
AssetTag 4060796

PS DellSmbios:\> Get-ChildItem DellSMBIOS:\SystemInformation\OwnershipTag -verbo
se
VERBOSE: Performing operation Get-Item on target
DellBIOS:\SystemInformation\OwnershipTag

Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write
protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at Dll_CLI.BIOSWrapper.GetCurrentValue(String category, String att, String& c
urrentValue)
at Dell.Smbios.PowerShell.Providers.DellBIOSProvider.ConstructAttributeObject
(String categoryName, ConfigDataConfigDataEntryFormSetFormConfigItem cfgitem)
at Dell.Smbios.PowerShell.Providers.DellBIOSProvider.GetItem(String path)
at System.Management.Automation.SessionStateInternal.GetItemPrivate(CmdletPro
vider providerInstance, String path, CmdletProviderContext context)
at System.Management.Automation.SessionStateInternal.GetChildItems(String pat
h, Boolean recurse, CmdletProviderContext context)
at Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand.ProcessRecord()
at System.Management.Automation.Cmdlet.DoProcessRecord()
at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()
at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase.DoExecute()
at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.Inject(Object inpu
t, Boolean enumerate)
at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecute
Enumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)
at System.Management.Automation.PipelineOps.InvokePipeline(Object input, Bool
ean ignoreInput, CommandParameterInternal[][] pipeElements, CommandBaseAst[] pip
eElementAsts, CommandRedirection[][] commandRedirections, FunctionContext funcCo
ntext)
at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.ActionCallInstruction`6.Run(Inter
pretedFrame frame)
at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.R
un(InterpretedFrame frame)
at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.R
un(InterpretedFrame frame)
at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.Interpreter.Run(InterpretedFrame
frame)
at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.LightLambda.RunVoid1[T0](T0 arg0)

at System.Management.Automation.DlrScriptCommandProcessor.RunClause(Action`1
clause, Object dollarUnderbar, Object inputToProcess)
at System.Management.Automation.DlrScriptCommandProcessor.Complete()
at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase.DoComplete()
at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.DoCompleteCore(Com
mandProcessorBase commandRequestingUpstreamCommandsToStop)
at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecute
Enumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)
at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeHelper()
at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeThreadProc()
at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.PipelineThread.WorkerProc()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionCo
ntext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, C
ontextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, C
ontextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

Hi ChaddPlusPlus,

Can you please let us know more information about system used? System Model & WINPE Version,

I would recommend to check platform support in this link. http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/11653.supported-platformsbios-reference-list-for-dell-command-powershell-provider