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Dell Command | PowerShell Provider Version 2.8.0 User's Guide

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Setting up Dell Command | PowerShell Provider 2.8.0 in Windows Preinstallation Environment

Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) provides a stand-alone environment that is used to prepare a system for Windows installation. If the operating system is not installed on the client systems, you can create a bootable image that contains Dell Command | PowerShell Provider. You can use the bootable image to run the commands on WinPE.
  1. From the Microsoft website, download and install Windows ADK on the client system.
    NOTE:While installing select only Deployment Tools and Windows Preinstallation Environment.
  2. Create the WinPE Image, adding PowerShell support to WinPE. See Microsoft | Learn.
    NOTE:DCPP for WINPE is not supported on ARM64 platforms.
  3. Copy Dell Command | PowerShell Provider folders and files into your WinPE bootable device (CD/USB).
  4. Copy msvcp100.dll, msvcr100.dll from VC2019; and msvcp140.dll, msvcr140.dll, vccorlib140.dll from VC2019 inside the Dell Command | PowerShell Provider module.
  5. Boot to WinPE and open the Windows PowerShell console.
  6. Browse to the directory where Dell Command | PowerShell Provider folders and files have been copied based on the clients WinPE architecture.
  7. Import the module. See Importing Dell Command | PowerShell Provider.
On a successful import, the following message is displayed: To get more help about the Dell Command PowerShell provider, run the following that is based on commands on the operating system: For 64-bit systems; Get-Help DellBIOSProvider, For 32-bit systems; Get-Help DellBIOSProviderX86 and For ARM64 systems; Get-Help DellBIOSProviderARM64. Now, you can access the DellSMBIOS drive to manage your Attributes. For more information, see Support | Dell .

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