Custom Update Catalog

Update catalogs enables you to create, edit, download and deploy custom update catalogs. Updates include BIOS, drivers, firmware and Dell applications.

Users can manually create custom catalogs for free. Alternatively, they can automate the catalog creation for entitled PCs. Catalogs can be deployed directly from TechDirect for entitled PCs or can be deployed using deployment tools.

Introduction

The benefits of using Dell Custom Update catalog are:

• Enables you to pick only required updates
  • No surprises. Only drivers that you have approved will be installed on your PC fleet
  • To help with the approval process the solution provides you with comprehensive Metadata to make informed decisions and consider potential dependencies
  • Leverage several filtering options like criticality, update type or category for fast selection of updates
• Automatic catalog creation further streamlines the process
  • ProSupportPlus or Flex entitled PC fleet will create a catalog without any manual steps
• Cloud solution, no need to maintain an additional tool or infrastructure (except "local" repository)
• Works with your existing Management console, Infrastructure etc.
• Enables you to create local repositories in case of any network limitations in remote sites

First steps

Use with Dell Command Update

Within Dell Command Update you can configure Update Source Location that allows the user to specify where to access the update information. By default, Default Source Location is selected which downloads and installs the updates from [downloads.dell.com]

If a custom catalog is created through Custom Update catalogs via the TechDirect portal, update the Update Source Location appropriately, navigating to the location of the custom catalog file that was created and downloaded.

See Dell Command Update User's Guide for more details.

Use with Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs

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Author(s):

Mesut Kaptanoğlu