Prompted Query to find machines based on MAC address

One of my customers asked me to build this example query and I figured I would share with everyone, not just one company.  it can be handy when you are doing OS Deployment testing and you need to look up a machine based on its MAC address to delete it so it becomes an “unknown computer” again.  Keep in mind that in the ConfigMgr database, the MAC address is in the form of ZZ:ZZ:ZZ:ZZ:ZZ:ZZ.

 

select distinct SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.MACAddresses from  SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.MACAddresses = ##PRM:SMS_R_System.MACAddresses## order by SMS_R_System.MACAddresses

 

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Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Good point Jeff.  In the case of my customer they wanted to do the lookup of MAC that may not be duplicated.  They also wanted to delete records, which can not be done so easily from a report.

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Helpful,Thanks & Cheers Mike.

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Thank you Mr. Mike.

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Thank you very much Mike !

• Anonymous
  November 25, 2011
  Did you know there is something already simular? Computers with duplicate MAC addresses report.

• Anonymous
  February 26, 2013
  Thanks for this tip!

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2013
  Thanks very much for this query.  It has come in very handy!!

• Anonymous
  March 27, 2014
  THNAK YOU!!

• Anonymous
  May 08, 2014
  Create a collection with Membership rule e.g.
  Name: MAC Type: Query
  
  Resouce class: System Resource
  
  In Edit Query statement ->General->show query language put:
  select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.MACAddresses = "00:12:34:56:78:55"
  
  NOTE: Change the MAC address that you need to find.
  
  In Edit Query statement ->Criteria:
  Simple value
  is equal to
  00:12:34:56:78:55
  
  Hope it helps!

• Anonymous
  September 17, 2014
  Really like this Prompted Query - much better than the change Criteria versions, very quick for the desktop guys - Thank You.

• Anonymous
  December 19, 2014
  Very invaluable to find machines built using a reusable Ethernet dongle for the new ultrabooks. Much easier than the duplicate mac reports

• Anonymous
  May 26, 2015
  Not working... I keep getting: This query has a syntax error. Are you sure you want to save it?

• Anonymous
  May 09, 2016
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  October 25, 2017
  works perfect Thanks Mike