Bios version - another place to get the value

[shoerman]

I was trying to find a way to bring back the Dell bios version, but in the friendly format of Axxx for the older versions.
a lot of people are running a select statement from the SMBIOS but it would only bring back the actual numerical version, not the Dell friendly version of Axxx for older system, so this is what I came up with to just pull it from the registry value. hope someone finds this helpful for them.

Value "BIOSVersion" of key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\Control\SystemInformation" of registry

[jgstew]

I have some automation to generate Dell BIOS Update Fixlets automatically.

You can see resulting fixlets here: https://github.com/jgstew/bigfix-content/tree/master/fixlet/BIOS/Dell

I also have created various automation for Dell Command Utilities.

See this thread where updating BIOS Updates with BigFix is discussed: BIOS Updates & Configuration using BigFix

Related:

• https://bigfix.me/analysis/details/2994743
• https://github.com/jgstew/bigfix-content/blob/master/fixlet/Install_Update%20Dell%20Command%20Configure%204.0%20-%20Windows.bes
• https://github.com/jgstew/bigfix-content/blob/master/fixlet/Install_Update_%20Dell%20Command%20Update%20-%202.3.1%20-%20Windows.bes
• https://github.com/jgstew/bigfix-content/blob/master/fixlet/Install_Update_%20Dell%20Command%20_%20Monitor%209.3.0.222%20x64%20-%20Windows.bes
• Deploying Dell BIOS Changes
• Dell BIOS Versions - Optimize Relevance
• https://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/3905