Servers mostly run with fixed IP-Addresses. So a question was to automate the server deployment using SCCM that also adds a fixed IP-Address to the server.
While SCCM has the ability to add a fixed IP-Address, the thing to do the deployment automatically was to add the OSD-Variables to the computer object in SCCM.
This can be done using a simple Powershell script and the WMI-Classes brought with SCCM.
# Powershell V2 only (V1 has errors in WMI)
param([string]$computer = ".",[string]$smssite = "MND",[int]$ResourceID=-9999,[string]$variable,[string]$value)
if(($ResourceID -ne -9999) -and ($variable -ne "") -and ($value -ne ""))
{
$pc_class = [WmiClass]""
$pc_class.psbase.Path ="\\$computer\ROOT\SMS\SITE_$($smssite):SMS_MachineSettings"
$pc = $pc_class.createInstance()
$pc.ResourceID = $ResourceID
$pc.SourceSite = $smssite
$pc.psbase.get()
$pc.MachineVariables = $pc.MachineVariables + [WmiClass]"\\$computer\ROOT\SMS\SITE_$($smssite):SMS_MachineVariable"
$machinevariables = $pc.MachineVariables
$machinevariables[($machinevariables.count)-1].Name = $variable
$machinevariables[($machinevariables.count)-1].value = $value
$pc.MachineVariables = $machinevariables
$pc.put()
if($?)
{
"Variable set"
}
else
{
"Error in setting variable"
}
}
else
{
"Not enough arguments given."
}
Adding variables this way is very easy and the correct names can be found in the SCCM documentation (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd252744.aspx).
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