SCCM: PXE boot and type of hardware detection

Question

Hello,

we are using SCCM to deploy images on our devices.

I would like to know if there is a possibility to detect what kind of hardware is using the PXE.

We want a specific rule for people :

booting the pxe on a laptop (which currently works well)
booting the pxe a Virtual Machine (we want a separate task sequence for those VMs)
Thank you in advance if you know how to manage this.

Jam

Answer 1

Hi,

Thanks for posting in Q&A.

Using "SMSTSMake" and "SMSTSModel" we could set the options on various groups and steps to target the right devices. To create the task sequence by using these Variables, maybe we could simply refer to them like any other variable like: %_SMSTSMake%.
Here are some example images for you to refer to:

For more details please refer to the following articles:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/osd/understand/task-sequence-steps
https://www.asquaredozen.com/2020/02/20/gather-no-more-using-dynamic-task-sequence-variables-in-configmgr/

I hope this could help you. Thanks for your time.

Best regards,
Fiona Yan

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Answer 2

Thx a lot Fiona, exactly what I was looking for

Answer 3

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback and I'm glad the problem is solved now.
If you have any questions in future, we warmly welcome you to post in this forum again.

Best regards,
Fiona Yan