ThinkVantage System Update for Windows 7 finally released

Sys­tem Update down­loads data updates for soft­ware, dri­vers and BIOS from a Lenovo server directly over the Inter­net with­out requir­ing spe­cific user knowl­edge of where the pack­age is located or if it is needed by the tar­get system.

We kept wait­ing for this about half a year, finally it was released!

Down­load: System Update 4.0 (9.94MB)

Note:
Sys­tem Update 4.0 ONLY sup­ports Microsoft Win­dows 7
For Microsoft Win­dows XP and Vista Users, kindly down­load the ThinkVan­tage Sys­tem Update 3.14
New for this release:

• Microsoft Win­dows 7 support

Sys­tem Update gen­eral fea­tures include:

• Win­dows 7™ support
• Active Direc­tory support
• HTTP basic and NTLM proxy authen­ti­ca­tion support
• Silent script support
• Abil­ity to eas­ily iden­tify applic­a­ble soft­ware, hard­ware, and solu­tion offer­ings from Lenovo that can help you keep your max­i­mize your com­puter performance
• Abil­ity to scan updates from exter­nal media, local hard drive, or net­work location
• Direct con­nec­tion to Lenovo Ser­vice and Sup­port or a local repos­i­tory con­fig­ured by IT admin­is­tra­tor for avail­able Lenovo dri­vers, soft­ware, and BIOS updates
• Abil­ity to auto­mat­i­cally down­load and install crit­i­cal updates on a sched­uled basis
• Inte­gra­tion with other Lenovo appli­ca­tions, such as Res­cue and Recov­ery, Client Secu­rity Solu­tion, Sys­tem Migra­tion Assis­tant, and Access Connections

Sys­tem Update admin­is­tra­tor fea­tures include:

• Abil­ity to mod­ify and cre­ate cus­tom update pack­ages com­pat­i­ble with Sys­tem Update, using Pack­age Builder.
• Abil­ity to cre­ate and man­age a local repos­i­tory, using Update Retriever.
• Abil­ity to import cus­tom pack­ages and to retrieve updates from the Lenovo sup­port site, using Update Retriever.
• Abil­ity to cus­tomize Sys­tem Update using ADM files and reg­istry set­tings Admin­is­tra­tor tools for Sys­tem Update are avail­able for on the Administrator Tools page.

Sup­ported systems

• Lenovo 3000 C100, C200, N100, N200, V100, V200 note­book computers
• Lenovo 3000 J100, J105, J110, J115, J200, J200p, J205, S200, S200p, S205 desk­top computers
• ThinkPad Reserve Edition
• ThinkPad A30, A30p, A31, A31p
• ThinkPad G40, G41, G50
• ThinkPad R30, R31, R32, R40, R40e, R50, R50e, R50p, R51, R51e, R52, R60, R60e, R60i, R61, R61e, R61i
• ThinkPad S31
• ThinkPad T23, T30, T40, T40p, T41, T41p, T42, T42p, T43, T43p, T60, T60p, T61, T61p
• ThinkPad X22, X23, X24, X30, X31, X32, X40, X41, X41 Tablet, X60, X60s, X60 Tablet, X61, X61s, X61 Tablet, X300
• ThinkPad Z60m, Z60s, Z60t, Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t
• ThinkPad R400, R500
• ThinkPad SL300, SL400, SL400c, SL410, SL500, SL500c, SL510
• ThinkPad T400, T500
• ThinkPad W500, W700s
• ThinkPad X200, X200s, X200 Tablet
• ThinkPad X301
• All Think­Cen­tre desk­top computers
• All ThinkSta­tion desk­top computers