Owner's Manual

• If you login to a system running on Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 operating system,
by default you are logged in as a regular user even though you may have Administrator privileges.
This is due to an in-built feature called User Account Control (UAC) that automatically reduces the
potential of security breaches. Before you run DUPs on the system, elevate the privileges for
administrators using Windows security options in Group Policy Editor. For more information, see
the DUPs User Guide.
Note: Ensure that a drive is available for DUPs to mount a partition to complete an update successfully.
Power Supply Unit (PSU) Dell Update Packages (DUPs)
After a Successful Power Supply firmware update, the system turns off, for up to 5 to 10 minutes, and
reboots automatically. If you perform a cold boot (AC Power cycle) during the firmware update, the
system does not boot.
Unified Server Configurator (USC) Dell Update Packages (DUPs)
• Lifecycle controller updates require system services to be enabled.
• For the first time, before you attempt to run Driver Package Diagnostics DUPs, execute the USC
DUP.
• If the operating system is installed from "Operating System Deployment", select "Reboot and Exit"
in the USC environment before booting to the operating system. This closes the USC session which
is held for 18 hours. If you do not want to enter the USC and select "Reboot and Exit", but want to
execute the DUPs within 18 hours, unplug the power supply of the system, wait for 10 seconds,
and then power on the system.
BIOS - Staged update
• BIOS updates require system services to be enabled.
• If the operating system is installed from "Operating System Deployment", select "Reboot and Exit"
in the USC environment before booting to the operating system. This closes the USC session which
is held for 18 hours. If you do not want to enter the USC and select "Reboot and Exit", but want to
execute the DUPs within 18 hours, unplug the power supply of the system, wait for 10 seconds,
and then power on the system.
• BIOS DUP will use LC to update BIOS. BIOS DUP will stage the BIOS firmware to maser partition and
create a SSIB update task, which is executed by the SSM manager on reboot. The update task in
the SSIB is a call to update wrapper in LC which has BIOS update logic.
12G BIOS
• BIOS updates require system services to be enabled.
• If the operating system is installed from "Operating System Deployment", select "Reboot and Exit"
in the USC environment before booting to the operating system. This closes the USC session which
is held for 18 hours. If you do not want to enter the USC and select "Reboot and Exit", but want to
execute the DUPs within 18 hours, unplug the power supply of the system, wait for 10 seconds,
and then power on the system.