Tuesday, March 4, 2014

How to add devices to different OU’s during deployment

In ConfigMgr it's possible to use a WMI query for Hardware vendor, type or model or part of computername (for example). In my situation I want to use a single task sequence for both desktop and laptop/ notebook deployments. This because to select different OU's during deployment. Let's have a look how to do that.
 
Within MDT you can use a variable like IsLaptop equals “True” or IsDesktop equals “True”. Within ConfigMgr I never used these before (while they are supported as well). There is another method however, besides of using part of computername. In this case you can run a WMI query to detect the hardware type.

My preferred method is as follows:
SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE PCSystemType = 1
SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE PCSystemType = 2
Example: 1 is for desktops and 2 is for laptops/notebooks.

If you want to combine multiple types, then use an "If statement" to the task sequence step, and specify multiple WMI queries. When using a single task sequence for both desktops and laptops/notebooks, use "Apply Network Settings" twice, with both a different WMI query.

When looking for more hardware types, use the following table:
  • 0 (0×0) Unspecified
  • 1 (0×1) Desktop
  • 2 (0×2) Mobile (Laptop/Notebook)
  • 3 (0×3) Workstation
  • 4 (0×4) Enterprise Server
  • 5 (0×5) Small Office / Home Office Server
  • 6 (0×6) Appliance PC
  • 7 (0×7) Performance Server
  • 8 (0×8) Maximum
 
Hope it helps!

More blogposts on this topic:
Chassis Types and query-based Collections (part 2)

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the useful tip. This will help for sure!

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