Users Guide

BIOS

System Password

1. On the title bar, click Settings.

2. On the Settings screen, click BIOS.

3. Enter a value in the Password field In the System Password window. You can click Show Password to view the password

in the Password field.

NOTE: The value in the Password field persists even when the Settings tab is closed and reopened.

NOTE: If the System Password is configured in the BIOS, the same password is required to perform the BIOS

updates.

4. Click Restore Defaults and check that the Password field is empty.

Suspend BitLocker

Dell Command | Update supports the ability to install BIOS updates even if BitLocker Encryption is enabled on the system's boot

drive. This feature suspends BitLocker while the BIOS is updated and resumes BitLocker encryption once the BIOS has been

upgraded.

Dell Command | Update provides a check box in the BIOS settings screen to Automatically suspend BitLocker and displays

the following warning message: Warning: Automatically suspending BitLocker drive encryption must be

executed in a secure environment to safeguard the drive security.

If BitLocker is enabled, the following options get applied:

● When a BIOS update is available and selected, and the Automatically suspend BitLocker option is checked, then the

Automatically restart the system (when required) option is checked. By default this option is disabled. When the BIOS

update is installed, BitLocker is suspended temporarily to apply the BIOS updates. After the BIOS and other updates are

installed, the system automatically reboots to complete the BIOS update, and BitLocker is reenabled.

● If a BIOS update is present within the list of the Selected Updates screen, a BitLocker icon is displayed to the left of the

update.

● You can select to uncheck the Automatically suspend BitLocker option, the BIOS update is unchecked and disabled.

NOTE:

Hovering over the icon provides the message This update is blocked because BitLocker is

enabled on this system. If you want to install this update, please check

Automatically suspend BitLocker in the BIOS settings pane.

● The Dell Command | Update command-line interface provides an equivalent command line option -

autoSuspendBitLocker=<enable|disable> to automatically suspend the BitLocker if a BIoperating system update

must be installed. Disabling this option blocks installation of BIOS updates, if BitLocker is enabled on the OS Boot drive. See

the Dell Command | Update command line interface options section for more information.

Configure Dell Command | Update