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April 4th, 2005 08:00
Changing remote PC bios settings
Hi,
We are trying to use wake on lan across our whole network. We need a way of enabling the "remote wakeup" setting in the bios, as well as setting the "setup password", remotely, across the whole network.
We have the "Dell Client Configuration Utility" version 1.1.111.0. Although this works fine for setting the "remote wakeup" setting, the "setup password" setting never gets applied. The instructions say in DCCU you need to enter the OLD password, followed by a space, and then the NEW password - but our PCs do not have an OLD password to enter. I have tried it with just a space at the beginning, but this also didn't work.
As well as that, the DCCU only works with 2000/XP, but we still have around 400 NT4 machines left on the network which need their bios updating too.
Does anyone know any other ways of making these changes? We know you can do it via IT Assistant, but that seems to involve individually going through each PC in the list to make the change.
Anyone know of a WMI script which might make the changes needed?
Does anyone know how to force DCCU to set the setup password correctly? At least that would mean we could get all the windows 2000 machines done.
Thanks,
Daniel.
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lance9
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April 4th, 2005 19:00
Danial,
I am working with the exact same issues, and even though the Dell Client Config tool ver. 1.1.111.0 is pretty simple in setting up the package for changing the WOL setting to "Enabled for on-board NIC", the package does not make the requested change in BIOS for me after we have executed it. We have GX260, 270 and 280's.
The package is created by selecting the checkbox "WakeUpOnLan" on the "Set Values" page and setting it for option 5 "Enabled for on-boad NIC". Do I also need to set an Action like "Restart"?
Does the package require to be executed from within a special location?
Appreciate any help on this.
lance9
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April 5th, 2005 21:00
Ignore my previous questions on how to get the WOL enabled in BIOS using the Dell configuration Tool. Found the solution.
Thanks.