Users Guide

Introduction

This document describes the activities that you can perform with Dell Command | Integration Suite for

System Center 2012 on systems running Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, System

Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager, and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager.

NOTE: Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center 2012 versions 4.0 and 4.1 are not

backward compatible with older versions of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Dell

recommends that you download and use Dell Client Integration Pack 3.1 with Configuration

Manager 2007 from dell.com/downloads.

What Is New

This release of Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center 2012 supports the following new

features:

• Streamlined access to Dell’s catalog of system and Windows PE driver cabs

• Create and deploy Out-Of-Band (OOB) indications policies across your network

• Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager

• Windows Server 2012 R2

• Dell Command | Configure 3.0

• Dell Command | Monitor 9.0

• WinPE 8.1 for Windows 10.0 clients

• Intel vPro OOB Management Extensions supports AMT 11

Key Features And Functionalities

Feature

Description

Configuring

Windows

PreInstallation

(WinPE)

environment

Configure and push the customized operating system image on the client system.

For more information on configuring the WinPE environment, see Creating A Dell

WinPE Boot Image.

Creating and

Importing Dell

Client Driver

Packages

Using streamlined access to Dell’s catalog of system and WinPE driver cab files,

configure and push customized driver packages onto client system. For more

information on creating Dell client driver packages, see Creating Dell A Client

Driver Package.

Integration of Dell

Command |

Monitor 9.x

Use Dell Command | Monitor version 9.x features such as remote management

applications, accessing managed node information, managing client state, and

receiving alerts for client events. For more information on Dell Command | Monitor

integration, see Importing Dell Command | Monitor.