Month: December 2017

I wrote this function for my fellow IT engineer (and brother) Robin van Bruggen who is building a script that allows his co-workers to change the OSDComputerName and AssetTag values for a specified machine without manually manipulating the MDT SQL database.

The script uses the MDTDB module created by Michael Niehaus (which can be found HERE). This module allows you to change pretty much anything you would want to change in the MDT database except for, you’ve guessed it, the asset tag.

Anyway, to keep a long story short, add this to the MDTDB.psm1 file and you’re good to go!

 

function Set-MDTComputerAssetTag {

    [CmdletBinding()]
    PARAM
    (
        [Parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true, Mandatory=$true)] $id,
        [Parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] $assetTag
    )
    
    Process
    {
        # Tell SQL which table to edit and what to look for
        $sql = "UPDATE ComputerIdentity 
        SET AssetTag = '$assetTag'
        WHERE ID = '$id'"
        Write-Verbose "About to execute command: $sql"
        $identityCmd = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand($sql, $mdtSQLConnection)
        $identity = $identityCmd.ExecuteScalar()
        Write-Verbose "Added computer identity record"

        
        # Write the updated record back to the pipeline
        Get-MDTComputer -ID $id
    }
}