Lenovo System Update Solution User Manual

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Note: Enter user name and password if required for the repository.

6. Add systems for assigning the updates and save the machine information of the non-Lenovo systems.

Enter the machine family information consisting of the first four letters or the last four letters of the
machine type and model.

7. Create a package for the non-Lenovo systems using Update Retriever.

Note: Add the Supported Systems method in the Dependencies section of the XML descriptor
file to apply the updates to a particular model.

8. Save the XML descriptor.

9. Import the package to the Update Retriever repository and assign the updates to the triplets of the

non-Lenovo systems. See “Importing an update package into a network share repository” on page 50.

10. Configure the System Update repository.

Scenario 4 - Disabling the Web upgrade for System Update

System Update checks the Lenovo Help Center Web site for upgrades of itself, even if it is connected to a
local repository on either the local system or a network share. If there is no internet connectivity, System
Update will not check for its application upgrade.

To disable this feature, do the following to clear the registry value:

1. Navigate to the following registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lenovo\System Update
\Preferences\UCSettings\HTTPSHelloSettings\ServerName

2. Delete the ServerName string value, for example:

https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pcbs/agent/

3. Click OK.

Scenario 5 - Installing specific update packages with the MSDOS prompt

You can install specific update packages for System Update using the MSDOS prompt. To install specific
update packages, do the following:

1. Create a new folder named installtxt on your local hard disk drive, for example:

C:\installtxt

2. With Notepad, create a TXT file named installList.txt.

3. In the TXT file, type the package IDs for the target client computers, for example:

1rg807ww
7ad123ww
7bwc14ww
bs09az00ibm
css7upgrade2_ww
kb896613tc

4. Save the TXT file in the C:\installtxt folder.

5. From the MSDOS prompt, go to the System Update installation path:

C:\Program Files\Lenovo\System Update\

6. Type the file path, the application executable file name, and the name of the TXT file, for example:

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