You’ll just need to run the line below and substitute If you don’t have a password currently assigned, then this option will be ignored if you try to run it. If your device is already configured to use an Administrator Password, you’ll need to provide the current UEFI Administrator password.

The first thing that we’ll need to do is load the Extension that will allow us to access the UEFI options. Go ahead and open up the Powershell ISE to begin developing your script that we’ll use to configure your Surface Pro 3 devices. Now that we have the Surface Firmware Tool installed, let’s see what we can do with it.

Now that we have the requirements installed, now what? In our example, let's suppose we want to install it silently via command line without the installer forcing a restart. That will give you all of the options available. If you need to do a silent install, you can get the supported switches via command line by running: “Surface Firmware Tool.msi” /?. If you’re installing it locally, just continue following through the Install prompts to complete the installation. You can push out that MSI through your normal software distribution processes (i.e. We’ll cover some of the same information here to provide a good base, but also provide some suggestions to make the process easier.īefore we can leverage any of the PowerShell scripts, we need to install the Surface Pro 3 Firmware Tools MSI on the device that you wish to configure. On our TechNet site ( Link ) we have some documentation and some sample scripts of how to identify and configure the settings. If you use WSUS/SCCM for updates, then you'll need to push out the latest drivers/firmware by using our new MSI ( Link ) Now that we know the requirements, now what? ** This version of UEFI should already be installed if you use Windows Update. Surface Pro 3 Firmware Tools MSI ( Download Here ).UEFI Firmware v3.11.760.0 ( Download Here or download via Windows Update)**.As a result of the Surface Engineering team’s hard work, you can now utilize a Powershell script to control the UEFI settings. If you’re trying to deploy or manage hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of Surface Pro 3 devices, the last thing you want to have to do is manually set a password in the UEFI or manually modify those settings for all of your devices. We now allow you to enable/disable features like the Front and/or Rear Camera, Wireless, Bluetooth, Network Boot as well as some other nifty features. Recently the Surface Engineering team released a firmware update that enabled some new capabilities in the UEFI that are of significant importance for a lot of customers. I’m a Premier Field Engineer who works with enterprise customers for everything Surface. First published on TechNet on Apr 19, 2015

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