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New Features and Functionality v1.3
● BIOS Verification v1.3 now supports the following platforms:
○ Optiplex 7070
○ Optiplex 7071 Tower
Resolved Technical Advisories v1.3
● When changing the Image Store directory, BIOS Verification now verifies write access to the destination directory.
[DPS-452]
Technical Advisories v1.3
● Non-US date/time formats currently yield communication errors with Dell Cloud. [DPS-700]
New Features and Functionality v1.2
● BIOS Verification v1.2 now supports the following platforms:
○ Latitude 3301
○ Latitude 7400
○ Precision 3541
○ Precision 5540
○ XPS 13 7390 2-in-1
○ XPS 15 7590
● BIOS Verification now supports Image Capture. After detecting a corrupt or tampered image, BIOS Verification copies the
image to the EFI partition then to %PROGRAMDATA%\Dell\BIOSVerification\ImageCapture. Administrators can invoke
image capture, configure captured image storage locations, and export most recent or all images. Each captured image is
signed and named BIOSImageCaptureMMDDYYYY_HHMMSS.rcv where MMDDYYYY is the date and HHMMSS is the time of
image copy.
Resolved Technical Advisories v1.2
● BIOS Verification's desktop icon is rebranded to Dell BIOS Verification Console. [DPS-143]
Technical Advisories v1.2
● BIOS Verification does not currently differentiate between upgrade or new install in the graphic user interface. [DPS-448]
● When changing the Image Store directory, BIOS Verification does not currently check for write access to the destination
directory. [DPS-452]
● If the PublicKeyBlob registry value does not exist prior to running the export argument, an error occurs. [DPS-464]
● In some scenarios, results can take up to 30 seconds to populate. [DPS-587]
New Features and Functionality v1.1
● The following platforms are supported with BIOS Verification v1.1:
○ Latitude 5401
○ Latitude 7540
○ Latitude 7740
○ XPS 7390
● BIOS Verification now uses Microsoft's assembly versioning convention.
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Technical Advisories