Here's a real mind screw: Win32_ComputerSystemProduct has a UUID which suggests on one PC: 54674461-7948-1000-9A34-000E0C6A5779 When it boots, the PXE code says: 61446754-4879-0010-9A34-000E0C6A5779
Notice the first 3 groups are the same numbers, but just mixed up? What is that all about? Thanks! jlc From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Enumerate GUIDs for all comps in an OU Hey Michael, I am using CIM Studio to look for this, and call me dense but I can't find it :) Can you push me along a bit here? Thanks! jlc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Enumerate GUIDs for all comps in an OU The SMBIOS GUID. Which is properly a CIM UUID (and that's what SCCM calls it). RIS/WDS doesn't care about the objectGUID. That's a crappy error message. It's pretty easy to scan through AD using vbscript or PS and retrieve all the UUIDs with WMI. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Enumerate GUIDs for all comps in an OU So when a cheap mobo has a dupe guid with another, which guid in AD does RIS say "A GUID for this computer already exists in Active Directory..."? Any idea? Thanks! jlc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Enumerate GUIDs for all comps in an OU The SMBIOS GUID used by WDS is tied to the motherboard, not to the AD object. Sorry, I didn't know that that was what you were looking for. You get that from WMI (for compliant motherboards). For example: PS C:\Users\Michael> gwmi win32_computersystemproduct | fl uuid uuid : 61383066-3835-3962-6635-001B384EE42B PS C:\Users\Michael> Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Enumerate GUIDs for all comps in an OU Hey Michael, Am I missing something here? I thought machine's deployed via WDS/RIS used the GUID as reported by the wkst? During the post I can see them and they are very different from the guid's enumerated by adfind. I have not blacklisted any guids yet, and none of them correspond to the mac address that I can visual see which would be a result. The deployments were CD based, not image based. Any ideas? Thanks! jlc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Enumerate GUIDs for all comps in an OU Adfind -default -b ou=ouname -f name=* objectGuid ? If you actually want vbscript for it, I can hunt it down. But it's a LOT more lines. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Enumerate GUIDs for all comps in an OU Anyone know a query I can do through vb for this? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
