Using mbidgenerator.exe to generate hardware IDs

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Important

Starting in Windows 10, version 1803, the MBAE app experience is replaced by an MO UWP app. For more information about MO UWP apps, see UWP mobile broadband apps.

To generate hardware ID values for your service metadata package, you can use the MBIDGenerator.exe command-line tool, which is part of the SDK in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

Note

In Windows 8, MBIDGenerator.exe was included in the WDK.

Input

MBIDGenerator.exe accepts the following parameters:

MBIDGenerator.exe [/Test] <input file> [<output file>]

Note

The Test parameter provides non-hashed output and should not be used for generating hardware IDs for submission to the Windows Dev Center Dashboard.

Output

The output from the MBIDGenerator.exe is through a standard command-line output display. Optionally, you can specify a path and file name for the output file. Errors are always reported back to the command prompt.

The output values appear in the following way:

<HardwareIDList>
  <HardwareID>MBAE:0:hashednumber1</HardwareID>
  <HardwareID>MBAE:0:hashednumber2</HardwareID>
  <HardwareID>MBAE:0:hashednumber3</HardwareID>
</HardwareIDList>

You can take the output from MBIDGenerator.exe and insert it into the PackageInfo XML schema of your service metadata package.