Hp on Jon's Notes

Installing the HP Client Management Script Library

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog posts, you’ll know that HP natively provides a few WMI classes and methods to the WIndows OS. These WMI classes work great for managing BIOS settings, but what if I want to manage Firmware updates or work with HP Softpaqs? One answer is to use the HP Client Management Script Library. The HP CMSL is a bundle of PowerShell modules created by HP for the purpose of managing HP firmware and drivers from the command line.

BIOS Management - Example Task Sequences

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

UPDATE September 16th, 2020 - The scripts included in these downloads are currently outdated. I plan to update this post soon with the latest script versions.

Now that I have working BIOS management scripts for Dell, HP, and Lenovo, I figured I would put them all together in a few example task sequences. This post will also act as a hub for my BIOS management posts.

Current BIOS Management Posts

Dell BIOS Password Management
Dell BIOS Settings Management
HP BIOS Password Management
HP BIOS Settings Management
Lenovo BIOS Password Management
Lenovo BIOS Settings Management

HP BIOS Settings Management

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This post was updated on September 18th, 2020.

This post is one of 3 posts in my series on managing BIOS settings using PowerShell. I’ve also written about Dell and Lenovo. In this post I’ll be talking about using PowerShell to manage HP BIOS settings.

The script can be downloaded from my GitHub: https://github.com/ConfigJon/Firmware-Management/tree/master/HP

HP, WMI, and PowerShell

HP provides a WMI interface that can be used for querying and modifying BIOS settings on their hardware models. This means that we can use PowerShell to directly view and edit BIOS settings without the need for a vendor specific program. This script uses 3 of the HP provided WMI classes.

HP BIOS Password Management

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This post was updated on September 18th, 2020.

In my last blog post, (Lenovo BIOS Password Management), I talked about managing Lenovo BIOS passwords with PowerShell. I liked how that process worked, so I decided to create a similar process to handle HP BIOS passwords. Once again, the goal was to have a script that could automatically set, change, or clear BIOS passwords while providing logging and optional user prompts. In this post, I’ll cover the basics of how the script works and some limitations of the script.