Framework Bios Updates through Intune Company Portal Packages

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Has anyone had success with installing Bios updates via Company Portal packaged with intunewin? Are there specific command line options or scripts that work best to run the installers?

2

I’ve been able to get BIOS updates to install through the company portal, but my detection rules aren’t working at the moment. This is the script I use to install the BIOS update on our AMD 7040s utilizing PowerShell:

===== Variables =====

$ScriptDir = Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
$BiosExe = Join-Path $ScriptDir "Framework_Laptop_13_Ryzen7040_BIOS_3.18.exe"

$MarkerDir = "C:\ProgramData\Framework"
$MarkerFile = "$MarkerDir\BIOS318.updating"

===== Create marker directory =====

if (!(Test-Path $MarkerDir)) {
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $MarkerDir -Force | Out-Null
}

===== Create in-progress marker =====

New-Item -ItemType File -Path $MarkerFile -Force | Out-Null

===== Validate BIOS EXE =====

if (!(Test-Path $BiosExe)) {
Write-Output "BIOS installer not found at $BiosExe"
exit 1
}

===== Run BIOS update =====

$process = Start-Process     -FilePath $BiosExe
-ArgumentList "-s -r -noconfirm -nopause"     -Wait
-PassThru

if ($process.ExitCode -eq 0) {
exit 0
}
else {
Remove-Item $MarkerFile -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
exit 1
}

For the install command, I use:

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File bios_install.ps1

For the installation time, I set that to 10 minutes and run it as System.

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Thanks! I will give that a try.

Have you tried using Registry Detection for the intune Detection rules?

Key Path: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS

Value Name: BIOSVersion

Detection Method: Version Comparison

Operator: Greater than or equal to

Value: 3.18

4

I haven’t tried that yet. I was attempting to use a marker file that was created from the install script, but you can see how well that went. Doing a registry detection is probably the direction I’ll take next once I have some more time to delve more into it. Thank you for the suggestion!