System Identification?
What is it exactly that SCCM uses to identify a system on the network... the SMS unique identifier? the System UUID? The MAC? And when does this information get written to the database and by what process? What happened is a machine was replaced... the new machine given its domain name.... but when the old machine was re-installed, it disabled the new machines account in AD, and then took the name. There was a couple days between when the machine was removed, and then rebuilt. It seems the best way around this would be to completly purge system information from the SCCM database about any given machine when it is replaced/decommisioned. What is the best way to go about this? Thanks for all your help.
April 21st, 2010 6:40pm

but before the SCCM agent starts (i.e. when a computer tries to boot from the network) it uses the system GUID. This information can be added to the database in multiple ways; 1) Import data into the database manually (requires system GUID and netbios name) Are you talking about PXE boot? If so: you can either use the GUID or the MAC for creating a manual machine entry.
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May 21st, 2010 10:10am

but before the SCCM agent starts (i.e. when a computer tries to boot from the network) it uses the system GUID. This information can be added to the database in multiple ways; 1) Import data into the database manually (requires system GUID and netbios name) Are you talking about PXE boot? If so: you can either use the GUID or the MAC for creating a manual machine entry. Torsten, Alright, thanks! I tested it with GUID AND MAC, but that didn't work (computers wouldn't be imported properly). Then I reverted to using GUIDs only. However imo GUIDs are safer in an environment where you use computers with non-mainbord NICs. But.. do those kind of machines still exist? :)Check out my blog at www.sylvari.org
May 21st, 2010 10:56am

Thanks for the replies guys... I usually use the MAC when manually importing machines... which I don't do all that often, and it works fine. I have the Site maintenance tasks running as well, and so it appears that the manual deletion of an account in SCCM is the best way to do this. I really wish I could run the cleanup tasks Manually... but maybe in 2010 :P Thanks again for the help guys :)
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May 21st, 2010 7:44pm

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