Release Notes
● The Microsoft Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption feature is enabled.
● The TPM feature is set (using BIOS) to ON with Preboot Measurement.
For information about TPM security settings, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Online Help or the Dell
OpenManage Server Administrator User's Guide available at Dell.com/OpenManageManuals and on the appropriate media that
are supplied by Dell. For software updates for BIOS to function, perform the following steps:
1. Disable the Microsoft Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption feature. For information on disabling this feature. See the
Microsoft documentation at www.microsoft.com.
2. Update the BIOS.
3. Restart the system.
4. Re-enable the Microsoft Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption feature.
You can use OpenManage Essentials to view the TPM information in the Device Details page.
Issue 7:
Description: After creating a system update task to run immediately, it may take several minutes or more to see the task
created, because the update packages are downloaded in the background before the task is registeredw.
Issue 8:
Description: When quota management is enabled on the management station and a user approaches the quota limit, system
update tasks that are created by the user are not initiated. The Task Execution History Status displays the pause icon.
[29773]
Resolution: Increase the quota assigned to the user and then rerun or re-create the system update task.
Issue 9:
Description: System Update task does not work if the security group policy called Admin Approval Mode for the built-in
Administrator account is enabled on the system running OpenManage Essentials. [30884]
Resolution: OpenManage Essentials cannot elevate permissions to copy and run updates when Admin Approval Mode is
enabled on the OpenManage Essentials system. Use the default settings to execute the System Update task.
Issue 10:
Description: OpenManage Essentials only supports system updates on PowerEdge systems. Sometimes PowerVault NX
devices may display in the compliance report even though system updates on PowerVault NX devices are not supported by
OpenManage Essentials.
Issue 11:
Description: System update task to upgrade Emulex LightPuse HBA — Storport Miniport driver (10 GbE Network Adapter) on
Windows Server 2008 R2 or 2012 results in a time-out error. [61903]
Resolution: Installation of the Emulex NIC driver on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 results in an error
message that states that a KB article from Microsoft needs to be installed, even if the indicated KB article (hot fix) is already
installed. Therefore, ensure that the hot fix specified in Microsoft KB article 2846340 is applied on the server, and then run the
system update task.
Issue 12:
Description: After updating the PSU firmware through OpenManage Essentials, the Device Inventory page continues to
display the earlier PSU firmware version.
Issue 13:
Description: After the PSU firmware is updated through OpenManage Essentials, some PowerEdge servers may not turn on
automatically after they shut down.
Resolution: Turn on the server manually.
Issue 14:
Description: During in-band system update for SAS HDD firmware, DUP is failing with "invalid image file" error. [63920]
Resolution: Use out-of-band method to update the SAS HDD firmware. Or, for a workaround to use in-band method of system
update, see the Device Buffer error when running Online HDD firmware DUP article at www.dell.com/support/article/is/en/
isdhs1/SLN155722/device-buffer-error-when-running-online-hdd-firmware-dup?lang=EN.
Issue 15:
Description: The Software Inventory table is not updated with the latest firmware version of the iDRAC if the firmware update
is done using in-band method on servers with Linux operating system and OMSA (v8.2 to v8.5) installed. [78339]
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