Software update on a secured computing device
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsVamsee Krishna GANGARAM, Vikas AHLUWALIA, Jerry Song KIM, Robert D. YOUNG, Sudhir VUTHARADHI
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided that will automatically trigger a migration process on a secured computing device. A migration application may be remotely pushed to one or more secure computing devices. The secured computing device may set a boot priority for a new software on a first location on a hard drive. The secured computing device may detect an existence of a firmware migration variable and migrate the computing device to an updated state.
Claims20
A method for triggering a migration process, comprising:
- at a computing device having a secure boot configuration policy:
- setting a boot priority for a new software on a first location on a hard drive;
- detecting an existence of a firmware migration variable;
- and
- migrating the computing device to an updated state.
A method for triggering software migration process on a computing device running a current software, comprising:
- detecting an existence of a migration application on the computing device, wherein the migration application triggers the software migration process, including:
- downloading a new software image to a first location on a hard drive;
- setting a boot priority for the new software image on the first location on the hard drive;
- setting a firmware migration variable for a software migration;
- and
- booting up the computing device;
- detecting the existence of the firmware migration variable for the software migration;
- and
- performing the software migration.
A method for triggering software migration process on one or more secured computing devices, comprising:
- accessing a management service;
- and
- pushing a migration application to selected one or more secured computing devices, wherein the one or more secured computing devices are triggered by the migration application to begin migration process after a reboot of the one or more secured computing devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.