Setting OSDComputerName using CustomSettings.ini

Last week I got a call from a customer, that wanted to automate the naming of new computers, that was beeing deployed using System Center Configuration Manager. They were using the build-in UDI Wizard, that comes with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT).

But the default computer name for new computers are “MININT-%SomeRandomNumber%”.

They want to use the following naming standard:

• The first 3 characters should be static (The company prefix). In this example well use “ABC”.
• The next character should be the Device type (D=Desktop, L=Laptop or V=Virtual Machine).
• The last (up to) 9 characters should be the computer’s serial number

Example: ABC-V-A4G75GYL1

This kind of requirement something that almost every customers has, so it was pretty easy for me to provide the solution. But from time to time I get questions about this, so I thought I’d share the solution here.

Here is the CustomSettings.ini file that we used to solve this requirement:

[Settings]
Priority=Init, ByDesktop, ByLaptop, ByVirtual, Default
Properties=MyCustomProperty,ComputerSerialNumber, ComputerTypeName

[Init]
ComputerSerialNumber=#Right(“%SerialNumber%”,9)#

[ByLaptop]
Subsection=Laptop-%IsLaptop%

[ByDesktop]
Subsection=Desktop-%IsDesktop%

[ByVirtual]
Subsection=Virtual-%IsVM%

[Laptop-True]ComputerTypeName=L

[Desktop-True]
ComputerTypeName=D

[Virtual-True]
ComputerTypeName=V

[Default]
OSDComputerName=DNK-%ComputerTypeName%-%ComputerSerialNumber%

After updating the CustomSettings.ini file and the updated the Distribution Point’s, this was the new default behavior:

That’s it…

Enjoy.

link from : https://www.ronnipedersen.com/2014/10/setting-osdcomputername-using-customsettings-ini/