Removing old device from SCCM console.

[Phil Dyer]

Hi all,

Done alot of browsing and can't find an answer that seems to do what im after.

Basically we are rebuilding our SCCM environment for the move to WIndows 10 (sigh). At the moment our existing console is a mess due to the ammount of rebuilds and refreshes our devices go through, creating duplicate client entries in the console mainly because when a device moves rooms within the building it gets rebuilt and renamed as part of the task sequence.

I'm looking for a step that i can put at the start of my task sequence that will effectively gather the name from the device running the task sequence and remove that from SCCM entirely (not just it's collection membership) before continuing and treating the device as an unknown computer again.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Phil

[GarthMJ]

And what about AD? Are you discovering it or cleaning it up too? 

[Phil Dyer]

Once this goes into production AD discovery will be enabled yeah, so I should have mentioned that really I also need to be able to clear the old computer account from AD aswell as the SCCM console.

[GarthMJ]

You will need to look at and install one of the various web services. They will allow you to delete a computer from AD and SCCM. Plus do a whole lot more too. Find the one that you trust the most.