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Dell BIOS Updates in Patch Manager

hdwrguy

Recently decided to try the Dell BIOS updates that are available in Patch Manager.  However, whether I use Update Management to push it to a specific machine, or just approve it for a group in WSUS, it fails.  Error is "Not Applicable"  'Up[date not applicable.  Unable to find the Update by ID to perform the requested operation.  The update may not be applicable for the selected computer.'  Result Code: 0X80240003.

This happened on two BIOS updates for two separate machine types.

Any help is appreciated.

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    I got this working awhile back.  At first I was wondering why it was not working  myself so I did some digging.  The packages do a WMI query to root/dell/sysinv to look for various pieces of information about your system to identify which system it is.  I found that you have to push the Dell OpenManage Inventory Agent (for Dell Business Client Systems).  After this update is pushed the namespace is available and will report the necessary information and allow you to update the bios on your workstations.  As a matter of fact a new bios version that I just approved went through on our test workstation.

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    I got this working awhile back.  At first I was wondering why it was not working  myself so I did some digging.  The packages do a WMI query to root/dell/sysinv to look for various pieces of information about your system to identify which system it is.  I found that you have to push the Dell OpenManage Inventory Agent (for Dell Business Client Systems).  After this update is pushed the namespace is available and will report the necessary information and allow you to update the bios on your workstations.  As a matter of fact a new bios version that I just approved went through on our test workstation.

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