Introducing a new deployment service for driver and firmware updates

AriaUpdated Nir_Froimovici I welcome this article and the extended possibilities for WU and WuFB customer and already see great benefits.

Some areas are uncovered by OEMs and should be considered:

Intel ME drivers + Intel ME Firmware (sometimes bundled in UEFI updates (firmware) but not throughout all vendors (Asus, Asrock etc).

outdated Intel ME drivers with more recent firmware often causes a variety of strange issues such as sleep (power save), weird restart or shutdown behaviour.

Also Intel ME drivers and firmware are crucial in terms of security. Intel ME is one of the most affected parts in modern computers, due their low level access and implementation. 

I would like to plea to talk to the OEMs, vendors / ISV to include Intel ME drivers via Windows Update.

Similar to this following is often missing or outdated via Windows Update / WuFB

- other Intel components like RST drivers, Intel Security drivers (dunno why these are shipped)

- firmware and drivers for USB-C (docks), USB-C to network adapters (mostly Realtek at DELL) 

- firmware and drivers for Thunderbolt Docks

- Realtek Audio drivers

- Realtek Gigabit drivers 

- SSD and HDD firmware (we have seen various SSDs with FW issues, some models fail at 40.000 hours of operation across different vendors)

In many customer environments these are outdated, even though they fix a variety of security and compatibility issues with newer Windows 10 versions.

Speaking for a DELL Titanium Partner, unfortunately, some of these items are NOT delivered via Dell Command Update either but need manual care (download + install).

I appreciate your delivery and testing model and kindly ask you to make your vision more complete. Thanks for your feedback and thoughts.