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Easily access information from any database and publish it via a web service – Part 2 – The Web Service

April 07, 2011

After we have configured the connection to our Database and created our model ( see the last post for more details ), we will jump now to the creation of our new Web Service.   Create a Web Service Lets save our changes and add a new item. As mentioned already in my last post , I personally prefer the “older” asmx style web services most of the time. So we choose “ Web Service ” template for now (if you can’t find it easily, simply search for it) and give it a name. I’ll use MDT.asmx for this...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , ,

Easily access information from any database and publish it via a web service – Part 1 – The Database

April 07, 2011

OK, (probably) my two last post regarding my MMS 2011 sessions, if I haven’t missed something important . To be able to make our Deployments more dynamic and as unattended as possible, we need to have all the information available, that we need to take decisions automatically . We typically use information from the local hardware, the customsettings.ini and maybe the MDT Database. If we are really advanced, we also make use of some web services like the Deployment Web Service to drive our deployment...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , ,

Using LINQ and the Entity Framework to query SMS/SCCM

October 15, 2009

Even if this title doesn’t mean anything to you, just bear with me for a moment. I’m about to show you a nice and easy way to query a database (the SMS/SCCM Database in this case) and this even for all records which have specific bits in a bitmask set as it happens quite often within SCCM. Recently I had to query some information from SCCM again I wanted to use within my MDT Web FrontEnd . I wanted to have a list of all available packages and be able to search within this list. Additionally return...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , ,