Important Notes
NOTE: Dell Command | Configure 4.0 or later requires platforms supporting WMI-ACPI BIOS. The complete functionalities of Dell Command | Configure is available for the supported platforms, see the Dell Command | Configure manual page for more information.
NOTE: Ensure that the SMM Security Mitigation BIOS Feature is Disabled on applicable platforms running Linux operating systems. Dell Command | Configure on Linux operating systems will not work as intended if the SMM Security Mitigation BIOS feature is Enabled.
NOTE: Dell Command | Configure 4.1 or later Supported Features Nomenclature (Names along with its Configuration Possible Value Names) have been refreshed across CLI and UI. Dell Command | Configure even though is Backward Compatible for the Older Nomenclature, it is highly advisable to migrate or create Scripts to start using these Newer Features Nomenclature.
View the complete list of the Newer and the Older Nomenclature in KB article 000181683, Reference list for updated names of attributes and possible values for Dell Command | Configure
NOTE: Error codes have been changed with Dell Command | Configure 4.1. See the updated codes in the Downloads section.
For the limited functionalities on non-WMI-ACPI complaint platforms, see Windows SMM Security Mitigations Table Compliance section in the Dell Command | Configure User's guide.
NOTE: Dell Command | Configure 4.2.0 or later user might see an error message as Importing ini file is failing for some features. For more information, check the log.
During SCE execution or INI import. This happens when a feature depends on other features or needs a different environment during configuration. For example, - Enabling LegacyOrom when SecureBoot is enabled. To disable SoftGuardEn needs OSMM mode.
Dell Command | Configure
Dell Command | Configure is a packaged software application that provides configuration capability to business client platforms.
This product consists of a Command-Line Interface (CLI) and Graphical User Interface (UI) to configure various BIOS features. Dell Command | Configure supports the following Windows and Linux operating systems: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows Pre-installation Environment (Windows PE), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 and Ubuntu Desktop 22.04
The latest version of Dell Command | Configure is v4.12.0.
Downloads
Dell Command | Configure 4.12.0 (Released - 06/2024)
- Windows download
- Documentation
- Error Code
What's New
- Supports ARM64 processors.
NOTE: There are certain features in the Pre-Enabled category for which the help texts may not be available. However, you can perform get and set operations.
NOTE: For more information about the newly supported BIOS features, see the following documentation: Dell Command | Monitor | Configure | PowerShell Provider - Newly Supported BIOS Features
Previous Releases
Dell Command | Configure 4.11.1 (Released - 01/2024)
- Windows download
- Documentation
- Error Code
Dell Command | Configure 4.11.0 (Released - 10/2023)
- Windows download
- Linux downloads
- Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 (64-bit)
- Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 (64-bit)
- RHEL 8.x (64-bit)
- RHEL 9.0 (64-bit)
- Documentation
- Error Code
Dell Command | Configure 4.10.1 (Released - 03/2023)
- Windows download
- Documentation
- Dell Command: Configure Error Codes
Dell Command | Configure 4.10.0 (Released - 01/2023)
- Windows download
- Linux downloads
- Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 (64-bit)
- Ubuntu Server 18.04 (64-bit)
- Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 (64-bit)
- Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 (64-bit)
- RHEL 7.x (64-bit)
- RHEL 8.0 (64-bit)
- Documentation
- Error Code
Dell Command | Configure 4.9.0 (Released - 11/2022)
- Windows download
- Documentation
- Error Code
Dell Command | Configure 4.8.0 (Released - 07/2022)
- Windows download
- Linux downloads
- Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 (64-bit)
- Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 (64-bit)
- Ubuntu Server 18.04 (64-bit)
- Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 (64-bit)
- RHEL 7.x (64-bit)
- RHEL 8.0 (64-bit)
- Documentation
- Error Code
Whitepapers/Technical Documents:
- Configuring Remote Wake-Up using Dell Client Command Suite
- Configuring Dell Business Client Systems using Dell Command | Configure
- Securing Dell Commercial Client Systems with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) using Dell Client Command Suite
Video
Activating the TPM with Dell Command | Configure
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Setting the BIOS defaults using Dell Command | Configure
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