If your purchasing 750 pc's from HP, have them config the bios with your settings for you before it ships. I've had them do this in the past in another life, and with that quantity they shouldn't charge you to do it. They used to also offer putting in your company's logo as part of the config as well. This would at least get you started, and then you can research ways to automate it going down the road (for Bios password changes for example). Good luck!
From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Custom BIOS Look at HP Client Manager and/or System Software Manager. Those may be able to do what you are looking for, but I don't believe they support all systems. Unfortunately, I think the dc7900 is on the unsupported list. It's been a while since I looked at them so it may be updated to include them at this point. YMMV. ------------------------------------------------------ Wayne Eisenberg Server and PC Support Manager Pepsi Bottling Ventures, LLC ________________________________ From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Custom BIOS HP has tools to script all this for servers and IIRC Dell has it for clients so I'd venture to guess HP may have it for clients as well. Look for stuff centered around deployment scripting/automation/etc on their site. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 From: Okan Bostan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 7:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Custom BIOS Hi List, We have purchased ~750 PC (Hp DC7900) for student labs. I want to set a password for BIOS for all the new computers, and make some restirictions, like disabling cdrom boot. Is there a way to automate this process? I don't want to set all passwords manually. I have seached a little, I think about taking the modified bios image and applying it as bios update to computers via Group policy. In addition to this, I have tried uniflash, awdflash or HPQFLASH and FLASHBIN to backup the current password protected BIOS as .bin file but I cannot succeed it, Any suggestions? Thanks. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
