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Extending the MDT Database with Custom Settings

The Settings within the MDT Database cover already a wide area of possibilities during a Deployment. But sooner or later you will probably reach a point, where you are in the need of adding or processing additional information. Think about Static IP Address assignment or prestaging a specific CollectionID for Deployment via SCCM, etc. There are probably a lot of things you might want to have. At least I reached this point quite soon during our deployments and started adding a new table for this and...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: MDT 2008, Webservice, SQL, Microsoft Deployment

Set or Get a single Setting from MDT Database

After implementing the function to Update the Computerinformation in MDT as explained in the last post, I found more and more settings from the MDT Database I wanted to get or set during the execution of the scripts. So instead of reading the complete set of settings for an entry I started creating similar functions to get/set the Computername, the UDDir, etc. But just after a couple of settings it was obvious that this couldn't be the final solution. The MDT settings table contains 84 different...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: MDT 2008, Webservice, SQL

Update Computerinformation in MDT 2008

Now as we know how to create our own webservice and how to use it from a script , we can go ahead to the more useful topics. We actually want to extend the current MDT implementation. So I would like to start with a function which was already quite useful on a couple of different implementations. We want to have an easy way to update the Computer information, mainly Serial Number, MAC Address and UUID. The benefit might not be obvious but to give you an example. We use this to prestage a computer...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: MDT 2008, Custom Scripts, Webservice, SQL