Re-imaging a system resource: what happens to collection membership?

[willits]

When a computer is re-imaged, what happens to its status as a system resource? In particular, will advertisements re-run to install applications that were previously deployed to that resource via SCCM or do you have to re-advertise?

[Lucid]

It depends. Do you reuse the previous resource object in SCCM, or have your imaging processes create a new one? And it's also going to depend on how your memberships are set up - the new system would have to meet whatever criteria you've put in place to recieve the advertisement. And of course, it's going to depend on what settings you use in the advertisement itself too (always rerun, never rerun, etc...).

 

Of course, the easiest way to test it is to note the resource ID of an existing machine, then image it and see what resource ID it picks up and what happens with your advertisements...