ABC Not really much use! So, we decided that we really needed to spend some time on this and get it working once and for all. After actually dedicating some time to it instead of just messing about with it for five minutes here and there, we finally got it working.

Moving from WDS to MDT + WDS - Prestaged Computer Name. It matches on the Serial Number or the UUID of the device and then assigns the designated matching. Oct 02, 2008 BIOS Serial Number as Computer name in Sysprep. Was that the computer name of the machine had to be equal to that of the machine's serial number.

For those of you that know MDT, we used this with a mixture of Gather and Set Task Sequence Variable. Tested it, works a treat! So, a quick how to for those wanting to know how to do it as we have really struggled to find a simple step by step guide to doing such a simple task. Prerequisites We do assume that you have a good understanding of both MDT and SCCM at this point. You also need to have MDT installed and integrated into SCCM. If you need to create the MDT package, please read the next section, if not, jump to the instructions section. MDT Package Creation The easiest way to create the MDT package is after you have integrated MDT into your SCCM.

Go ahead and right click on your Task Sequences and select Create MDT Task Sequence. Run through the wizard and just create any old task sequence – you can delete the task sequence after. Part of creating the MDT task sequence is to create the MDT package if you have not already done so.

Once complete, the MDT package then needs to be deployed and you should then be able to use it within your other task sequences. Download Free Evolution By Robert Bruce Pdf Editor. Instructions First of all, you need to have MDT installed. You also need to make sure that you have ConfigMgr integration working, please note that this guide does assume that you have MDT fully up and running to use in your Task Sequences within ConfigMgr. Flexify 2 Keygen Generator. if you need to know how to get this to work, leave a comment at the bottom of this post and we will look at getting a guide uploaded for doing that.

Hello World, Today, again, we will speak a little bit about MDT 2012. The idea of this post came because of a discussion we had with one of our customers. This customer was not able to automate the deployment process because by default MDT generates a random computer name. Download Bully Scholarship Edition For Pcsx2 Emulator. The customer had first to rename the computer before joining it into the domain makin impossible for him to fully automate the deployment process. This post will quickly show you can use the CustomSettings.in (or equivalent rules GUI editor) to automatically set a computer name based on your naming convention. You will see that MDT 2012 can be tweaked in order to fit your situation.

Set computer Name using OSDComputerName variable Common Scenarios By default, MDT 2012 allows you to define some rules in order to set the correct computer name during the deployment process. In order to set computer name during the deployment process, you can use the variable OSDComputername. In order to define the rule that will be used to set the proper computer name, you have to understand the naming conventions used within your customer organization. In our situation, a naming convention was available (sweet) and the computer name to be generated would be the combination of a prefix text and the serial number of the machine. In other words, the computer naming convention was something like WS-%SerialNumber% Based on this naming convention, it’s easy to automate the process with MDT 2012.