[MDT-OSD] Is BIOS updating through SCCM or MDT a fairly safe process now ?

2014-08-19 Thread Bain . John
I remember back in the day applying BIOS updates was some sort of dark art. Where you would only think of doing it if you absolutely had too. So what I am really asking is, are people deploying BIOS updates through task sequences in MDT and SCCM and is it a safe process now ? Anyone brick a

[MDT-OSD] RE: Is BIOS updating through SCCM or MDT a fairly safe process now ?

2014-08-19 Thread Daniel Ratliff
Would love to, definitely have a need. Have had 0% success with Lenovo and the SRWIN stuff. Daniel Ratliff From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Bain.John Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 1:26 PM To: mdtosd@lists.myitforum.com Subject:

Re: [MDT-OSD] Is BIOS updating through SCCM or MDT a fairly safe process now ?

2014-08-19 Thread Chris . Ross
I've had success in applying BIOS updates on HP and Dell systems with SCCM. It can be a fairly straight forward process and found I didn't need to worry about bricking a bunch of systems. I can count on one hand the amount of systems that encountered issues in my environment from a BIOS

RE: [MDT-OSD] Is BIOS updating through SCCM or MDT a fairly safe process now ?

2014-08-19 Thread David van Beek
For a project we did update configure the BIOS on Dell systems within WinPE (boot image) just before applying the OS. This was choosing during the migrating of XP to Win7. In this way we were sure every system has the same harddisk setting configured SATA/AHCI ect. Before applying the OS. We