Software Overview for HP 8200 Elite and 6200 Pro Desktop Models

There is no backwards compatibility for DOS-based tools. Customers with a mixed

deployment of legacy and UEFI BIOS platforms will have to maintain a separate

toolset for each platform type.

Windows-based Tools

Windows-based tools should be updated to the latest version. HP recommends

using the UEFI compatible tools for updating, restoring, and/or configuring desktop

systems.

There is backward compatibility for Windows-based tools. Customers do not have

to maintain separate toolsets for mixed deployment environments.

Password Changes

UEFI BIOS no longer accepts passwords as a string of scan codes. This is due to

the transition of character support from the ASCII to USC-2 format, a UTF-16

Unicode with fixed width 16-bit characters.

All WMI scripts containing password parameters must be updated from scan code

to Unicode strings. Unicode strings will not work on legacy BIOS platforms.

Customers with a mixed deployment of legacy and UEFI BIOS platforms will have to

maintain separate scripts for each platform type.

For more information

For more information about the UEFI BIOS specification, visit the UEFI SIG website

at:

http://www.uefi.org/home/

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