Hi Nick, You mentioned a local CD/DVD option, which we do have premade. I'll link to it below. This utility does include updates to the Lifecycle Controller, the BIOS, and the iDRAC. It should flash everything  in the chassis to the latest revisions. That having been said, there will be a lot of skipped packages, because it would have updates to any supported hardware that could be installed in the system. Running this package will probably take around an hour, but may potentially take longer. It really depends on how many updates get applied and how many get skipped. Repository Manager does let you build a custom .ISO, so that may also be an option for you. Let me know if this helps out.  [URL]
Hello all, Firstly, I'd like to thank you for your time and attention as well as apologize for the lengthy post (wanted to include as much details as possible). It is greatly appreciated. Recently, my team and I received a call informing us that one of our Dell R710 servers has stopped communicating with the network. Upon further investigation, we found that 3 out of the 5 HDDs in the server had failed. At this point, our task is to get the server back up and running so we put in a request and received the new HDD replacements (same speed and size as previous drives but from different vendors). Unfortunately, we lost all data but that wasn't a huge concern for us. We initialized all the drives (to include the 2 old and 3 new drives) and all drives appear to be healthy. After attempting to install Windows 2012R2 (and hours of scratching our heads and googling), it was discovered that we would need to update the BIOS (currently v2.2.10), LifeCycle Controller (currently v1.4.0.256), and install an updated OS Driver Pack (for Server 2012R2). After many hours of research, we came to the conclusion that we would first need to update the LifeCycle Controller, then the BIOS, and finally the OS Driver Pack. Once all that is good to go, we should be able to install Windows Server 2012R2 on the server (please correct me if I'm wrong about this).  However, the current issue is that after downloading the LifeCycle Controller DUP (v1.7.5.4), from the Dell support site (link below) and utilizing the LifeCycle Controller Platform Update utility, we would get the "The updates you are trying to install are not Dell authorized updates" error. It looks like there are many others that have come across this issue as well but definitely due to our HDD situation, I feel like our situation might be different. Seeing as how iDRAC was never configured (and most likely will never be configured, due to company policy), a local (CD/DVD) solution is the only option. Any assistance with this is very much appreciated. We're currently wrapping our heads around how to update what needs updating via a CD/DVD but yet requires an update to do the thing that's administering the update because it's too old to be updated...   System Info: Server: Dell R710 RAID config: 2 drives in RAID 1, 3 drives in RAID 5 Current BIOS version: 2.2.10 Current LifeCycle Controller version: 1.4.0.586 Current iDRAC version (although will not be using): 1.54 No OS installed Downloaded 32bit version of the Update Package for Microsoft® Windows® [URL]
Unable to update LifeCycle Controller on outdated R710