Hi everyone,
I wouldl like to have your opinion on maintaining a lifecycle for a PC in SCCM. Mostly for restaging a PC. This is the process which has been implement at the customer for who I work at the moment:
- Run deployment for Unknown computers (PXE) which will export MAC Address + Serialnumber. This is inserted in a DB with all the other information of the asset (This information is scanned by some other employees)
- When we want to stage this asset, we select this PC in our custom tool. This selection will add the computer to SCCM (based on MAC) to the correct collection with a W7 deployment. PXE is used to receive this deployment.
- When this asset returns, we remove computer from SCCM & AD
Afterwards when we want to restage this PC, we will run this entire process again. The idea behind this is that all previous information of this asset in SCCM is deleted.
The previous weeks, I have read about GUIDs, AD discovery and so on and it looks to me that this process isn't the best on the market :) Do you want to share me some information about what would be the best scenario and how we can improve?
Because at the moment, we are facing some issues about reusing these PC's..
- Assets which are still located in SCCM after delete (process is not followed by employees). This will result in PXE erros which need manual fixing.
- Sometimes AD computers aren't deleted and will sync back to SCCM (without MAC address)
Wouldn't it be better to use SMSBIOS GUID rather than MAC since SCCM will target first on this value? Or still not unique since vendors not always create unique GUIDs?
Thanks for the ideas!
Kind regards
