How is that affected by systems plugged into UPS units with USB monitoring, etc?
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Keith Garner (Hotmail)
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 11:32 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] MDT detections HP servers as Laptops
Yes, SMBIOSAssetTag is not reliable, even less reliable on Server SKU's. As
such, I try to avoid using isLaptop, isDesktop, and isServer.
Typically, when I need to know what the OS type is within the OS (wks/server),
I just use the SKU type of the OS.
Additionally if you need to know if the PC is a laptop, a more reliable check
is for the existence of a Battery, but you must install the battery driver if
you want to test that from within WinPE. :(
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Ratliff
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 5:23 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [MDT-OSD] MDT detections HP servers as Laptops
Anyone ran across this before? We have some HP servers that are coming up as
IsLaptop=TRUE and IsServer=FALSE because the ChassisType is 18, "Expansion
Chassis".
According to ZtiGather.wsf, the only server is ChassisType 23.
If not
IsNull(objInstance.SMBIOSAssetTag) then
sAssetTag = Trim(objInstance.SMBIOSAssetTag)
End if
Select Case
objInstance.ChassisTypes(0)
Case "8", "9",
"10", "11", "12", "14", "18", "21"
bIsLaptop = true
Case "3", "4",
"5", "6", "7", "15", "16"
bIsDesktop = true
Case "23"
bIsServer = true
Case Else
' Do nothing
End Select
But looking at the options logically, I would think 17-23 would all be servers,
except for maybe 21 which could be a docking station.
17
Main System Chassis
18
Expansion Chassis
19
Sub Chassis
20
Bus Expansion Chassis
21
Peripheral Chassis
22
Storage Chassis
23
Rack Mount Chassis
I know I can edit ZtiGather, but I really don't want to do that. Does this look
like a MDT bug or just hardware not setting the proper ChassisType?
Daniel Ratliff
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