Windows 7 / Getting Started

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Configuring Individual Computers

For LTI, configuration settings that you apply to a group of computers may be sufficient. You can supply the remainder of the computer-specific settings interactively in the Windows Deployment Wizard.

If you want to automate your LTI-based deployment fully, you need to provide computerspecific configuration settings in addition to the settings that apply to groups of computers. You can use the configuration settings for individual computers to override or augment settings for groups of computers based on the priority. For more information about determining the priority of processing rules, see the MDT 2010 documentation.

Selecting an Identification Method

More than one method is available for identifying individual computers (just as when identifying groups of computers). After you select the method for identifying an individual target computer, you can select the appropriate properties.

The processing rules in MDT 2010 allow you to identify individual computers based on any property that might be applied to only one computer (such as AssetTag, MACAddress, UUID, and so on). Table below lists the methods of identifying individual computers, descriptions of the methods, and properties that you can use to identify the individual computers.

Identifying Individual Computers

Identification Method	Description	Properties
Target computer hardware attributes	Identify the target computer by using the hardware configuration.	MACAddress
Target computer software attributes	Identify the target computer by using the software or firmware configuration.	Product (in conjunction with Make and Model) UUID
Target computer user-defined attributes	Identify the target computer by using attributes that are assigned to the computer but are not a part of the hardware or software configuration.	AssetTag SerialNumber