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Lenovo Think Deploy Blog
2y ago
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Lenovo Think Deploy Blog
2y ago
Lenovo Deployment Assistant (LDA) is a new offering targeted at Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (CM) administrators. This solution automates the tedious tasks of creating Application packages, Configuration Items, and Inventory Extensions for our various utilities used to patch and manage Lenovo PC's. With just a few clicks, you can direct LDA to accomplish in minutes what would normally take hours. And by running LDA on a regular basis, it will let you know when any of the Lenovo tools have been updated.
The applications that are covered by LDA include:
Commercial Vantage
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Lenovo Think Deploy Blog
3y ago
A recent feature add (by popular demand) in Commercial Vantage is the ability to write the device's warranty information to WMI.
The Lenovo_WarrantyInformation WMI class located under the root\Lenovo Namespace is created when the "Write Warranty Information to WMI" policy has been enabled on the device.
In this post, we're going to walk through how this data can be collected from Intune managed devices and ingested into a Log Analytics Workspace in Azure Monitor.
The solution is derived from an excellent Microsoft blog post, which provides an example of collecti ..read more
Lenovo Think Deploy Blog
3y ago
There's already several great articles out in the community that walk through how to configure BIOS settings through Intune. The majority of them being PowerShell solutions.
This post will provide an alternate method for configuring BIOS settings using our official Think BIOS Config HTA that was introduced back in 2016. This solution can also be leveraged as part of an Autopilot deployment.
Before proceeding, make sure you have an exported .ini file that contains the desired BIOS settings you want applied to your target systems. Refer to the documentation pr ..read more
Lenovo Think Deploy Blog
3y ago
Introducing Lenovo Odometer
In some previous articles we have highlighted how you can collect Lenovo Updates History from a new WMI class in the root\Lenovo namespace. See https://thinkdeploy.blogspot.com/2018/10/tracking-thininstaller-update-history.html
We are now adding a new class under this namespace for the new "Odometer" feature found in the latest ThinkPads that were recently launched. This feature keeps track of several metrics that can provide an indication of how a system has been used. The metrics collected are:
CPU Uptime - amount of time CPU ..read more
Lenovo Think Deploy Blog
3y ago
Updated 2/1/21 - Added Intune deployment steps
Introduction
Lenovo Dock Manager is a new solution that reduces the effort that IT administrators spend on the large scale deployment of Lenovo dock firmware updates. This solution runs on your PCs and maintains a cache of the current firmware versions for supported Lenovo docks. When a dock is attached that has down-level firmware, it is automatically updated by Dock Manager.
Dock Manager can be found here: Lenovo Tools for Administrators
It can automatically download firmware updates from Lenovo Support dire ..read more
Lenovo Think Deploy Blog
3y ago
Updated 2/1/21: Added OMA-URI's for EULA and custom Repository
Following up on the intro to Commercial Vantage post, this one will walk through managing a few of the policies with Intune. This will be very similar to Managing System Update with Intune so some of the content will transfer here.
Before you begin, you will need:
Commercial Vantage .admx/.adml files - Found in the App/Deployment Guide zip which can be downloaded from the landing page here.
A Windows 10 device connected to Azure Active Directory and managed by Intune
Commercial Vantage installed on the device.
I ..read more