How to deploy a Dell Command Update policy.xml file

On the title bar, click Settings. On the Settings screen, click Update Settings. Under Automatically check for updates > Check for updates, select one of the following: Weekly Updates—If you select this option, Dell Command | Update runs the updates on the system once in a week.

Hi, thanks for the reply but this doesn't actually answer my question at all.

The problem with 3rd party risk management is right here, nobody reads. I read "how would you deploy the policy.xml file and its settings to 1000's of devices" and got it right away. The answer to "On the title bar, click Settings. On the Settings screen, click Update Settings" would require going to each of the 1000's devices and is clearly not an answer. Until Dell creates a Group Policy that can be centrally managed like Lenovo, HP and other vendors do, there is a 3rd party risk being ignored and not in line with the CISA's Security By Default that tells us that 3rd parties are our big risk.

To deploy the policy.xml file and its settings to a large number of devices while keeping the BIOS password secure, you may need to use a specialized deployment tool or script that can encrypt the password and push the settings to the devices remotely.

This method worked for me:

1- Remote install Command Update

2 - Copy the exported Settings.xml file to the target PC C:\Temp directory

3 - Run remotely this cmd command:

     "C:\Program Files\Dell\CommandUpdate\"dcu-cli.exe /configure -importSettings=C:\Temp\Settings.xml

If you need to set BIOS password this is it:

"C:\Program Files\Dell\CommandUpdate\"dcu-cli.exe /configure -biosPassword="Test1234"