Hello,

I'm a current user switching from HP management to Dell Management and I'm currently very unhappy with the result. While it's no unicorn and rainbow at HP, at least the tools work.

Now, my current struggle is with DellBIOSProvider. At first, this tool is lacking any documentation (pretty much like most of dell tools). But beside that, there's no real installation or requirement. So while looking at the sample script (which, the one coding these seems to have basic knowledge of Powershell), I manage to create my own script that call DellBIOSProvider. Everything work on the OEM image. Yay.

Let's do that in WinPE 10 now. Oh, nothing work, lots of error about missing smbios:. Let's ty the Load-DellBiosProvider cmdlet that's include with it. No error, great, I guess no message mean everythings good? Try again, no go, same errors.

While looking on the internet, I finally found that it require either HAPI or OMCI. 2 Things that again, I fail to find any up to date information about it. HAPI, I find older Dell Command Configure information that send me to installation path of DCC in the x86_64 folder looking for HAPIinstall.bat file. Well, file doesn't exist and nothing short of near that. Ah yeah, it's DCC 4.2.1.568, you know, the one that doesn't work out of the box because it failed to installed required dependencies while not listing these on the website or the "installation instruction"?

So, back to the root folder of DCC, there'S a installhapi.bat file. Launch that, file not found. Look at the script, it's trying to launch %0%\..\..\x86_64\hapiinstall.bat. Clearly, someone did copy paste, tried nothing.

Ok, go back to x86_64 folder. Bunch of bat file for WinPE offline install, 3 dll and cctk.exe. Ok, let's try the offline install. Check the little doc, it want to create it from pe scratch. Install ADK, launch, errors.... Ok, I'll do it myself. Looking at the script, the only thing it does is copy the content of x86_64 to mount\command configure\x86_64 and add wmi in the startup script. This won't fix my issue.

So, does anyone have a 2019 ways to get DellBIOSProvider to work so I can configure my bios password and bios configuration?

 

Thank you