Lenovo Dock Supervisor

Up to date 2/1/21 – Added Intune deployment steps

Up to date 10/18/21 – Replace record of supported docks

Introduction

Lenovo Dock Supervisor is a brand new answer that reduces the trouble that IT directors spend on the big scale deployment of Lenovo dock firmware updates.  This answer runs in your PC and maintains a cache of the present firmware variations for supported Lenovo docks.  When a dock is hooked up that has down-level firmware, it’s routinely up to date by Dock Supervisor.  Video assets and hyperlinks which may be useful might be discovered beneath:

Lenovo Dock Supervisor Overview

Firmware Updates and Info Queries

Configuration and Deployment

Dock Supervisor and Person Information might be downloaded right here: Lenovo Instruments for Directors 

It may possibly routinely obtain firmware updates from Lenovo Assist instantly over the Web or from an area repository in your community that’s created and maintained utilizing Replace Retriever. The four-character “machine sort” for the supported docks listed beneath can be utilized in Replace Retriever when looking for the newest firmware packages.

The applying may also report knowledge from docks into WMI (rootLenovoDock_Manager) for directors to question remotely for administration functions.  Such particulars can embrace:

• Dock Machine Kind
• Firmware Model
• MAC tackle
• Related units – displays, USB units

Supported Docks

Deploying Dock Supervisor with ConfigMgr

Dock Supervisor is offered as an executable.  This is an instance of easy methods to deploy with Microsoft Endpoint Supervisor Configuration Supervisor (ConfigMgr) utilizing the Utility mannequin.

Within the console, navigate to the Software program > Utility Administration > Functions node and click on Create Utility within the ribbon bar.

Tick the Manually specify the applying info radio button, click on Subsequent

Specify details about the app, click on Subsequent

Enter Software program Middle particulars, click on Subsequent

Set the deployment sort to Script Installer and click on Subsequent

Set the deployment sort title and click on Subsequent

Enter the content material location path to the dock_manager_setup.exe 

Set up command: 

"dock_manager_setup.exe" /VERYSILENT

Uninstall command:

Uninstall begin in:

%ProgramFilespercentLenovoDock Supervisor

Set the detection rule setting sort to Registry

Hive: HKLM

Key:

SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallDockManager_is1

Worth:

Information Kind: String

Tick the radio button for This registry setting should fulfill the next rule…

Operator: Equals

Worth:

Set the set up habits to Set up for system and logon requirement to Whether or not or not a consumer is logged on

Add any set up necessities resembling Working system is One in every of Home windows 10 (64-bit)

Full the deployment sort and App wizards

Deploying Dock Supervisor with Intune

IntuneWinAppUtil.exe -c "C:IntuneWinDM" -s "dock_manager_setup.exe" -o "C:IntuneWinoutput" -q

Choose the dock_manager_setup.intunewin app bundle file.

Enter required and non-compulsory details about the app

Enter the set up command

dock_manager_setup.exe /VERYSILENT

%ProgramFilespercentLenovoDock Managerunins000.exe /SILENT

Set the necessities.  You possibly can take it a bit additional with a detection script to verify if a supported dock is presently linked to the system.  This is a pattern PowerShell script

# Verify for Thunderbolt 3 Dock Gen 2
$dock = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_PnPEntity | The place-Object { $_.DeviceID -like 'USBVID_2109&PID_8887*' }
if ($dock) {
    Write-Output "Thunderbolt 3 Dock Detected!"
}
else {
    Exit 1
}

Enter the detection guidelines to confirm the present model of Dock Supervisor is put in

Key path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallDockManager_is1

Worth title: DisplayVersion

Detection technique: String comparability

Operator: Equals

Worth: 1.0.0.125

End out the wizard and assign to a gaggle

Dock Supervisor WMI Class

You possibly can prolong {hardware} stock in Config Supervisor to gather the info written by Dock Supervisor in your purchasers by importing the offered .mof file beneath.

An instance from Useful resource Explorer 

Pattern report of what might be gathered utilizing SSRS