Closed AsmusRohwer closed 4 years ago
agrooms
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4 years ago Seems common with all vendors. I am thinking the Bios and Driver packages are not updated but a few times a years, whereas the discrete drivers and bios are updated more frequently. Just my theory.
AsmusRohwer
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4 years ago but if i use the "Third-Party Software Update Catalog" from Dell in SCCM: https://downloads.dell.com/Catalog/DellSDPCatalogPC.cab the SCCM found also the new bios. it seems there are two different catalogs. one for "normal" use: https://downloads.dell.com/catalog/CatalogPC.cab and the one for sccm and wsus: https://downloads.dell.com/Catalog/DellSDPCatalogPC.cab
maybe there is a way to use the second ?
agrooms
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4 years ago Good question. I see that as well. Sadly I don't know the answer 😢
agrooms
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4 years ago I ended up hitting it again and now I am getting updated drivers for MANY Dell models (3050, 7400, 7580, 7490, 3040, 7060, 7070 and 3070.
nodiaque
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4 years ago Getting the same problem for the Precision 3630. It pulled an older bios from the website: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/precision-3630-workstation/drivers
Version pulled is 2.1.2 while there's 2.6.1 available for at least 2 months.
ncsutmf
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4 years ago Noticed issues with the Optiplex 9010 BIOS, it was downloading A25 while at some previous point it had downloaded A30. Although the code has changed since then, this appears related to #37
Also found an extra closing bracket on line 15507 in the Invoke-Downloads function that was causing the script to not run (if you run the latest .PS1 directly instead of the .exe).
The issue appears to be when the catalog contains multiple matching entries in a number of places, it is sorting by release date (Ascending by default) and then selecting the first one, which is the oldest and not the newest item in the catalog. Explicitly adding the -Descending switch to the Sort-Object statements in the Find-DellBios function appears to fix this. Those statements are in multiple places in the function, currently lines 12929, 12935, 12939, 12948, 12952, and 12957.
AsmusRohwer
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4 years ago You got it men! made my day. Thanks. This is the solution.
MJPhelan
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4 years ago Related: The XML file used by the Driver Automation Tool only grabs what's available through the Dell command | Deploy Driver cabs - https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln312414/dell-command-deploy-driver-packs-for-enterprise-client-os-deployment?lang=en - These are usually updated on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. - The product page for any given machine is updated far more frequently. Which may contribute to the issue you are seeing.
So in addition to the XML file being a pain to parse, often it's just badly out of date... - Which is down to Dell to fix I'm afraid.
maurice-daly
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4 years ago Related: The XML file used by the Driver Automation Tool only grabs what's available through the Dell command | Deploy Driver cabs - https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln312414/dell-command-deploy-driver-packs-for-enterprise-client-os-deployment?lang=en - These are usually updated on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. - The product page for any given machine is updated far more frequently. Which may contribute to the issue you are seeing.
So in addition to the XML file being a pain to parse, often it's just badly out of date... - Which is down to Dell to fix I'm afraid.
Indeed sometimes the challenge is just what the tool is being fed from the manufacturer, and their own processes to update the source files.
Hello,
i´m not sure if this is an issue by DAT but if i download the Bios of an Dell Latitude E5570 i only get Version 1.15.4 but at the dell support site there are version 1.22.3 ready for download. and i do not understand why the DAT only find the older version.