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GUIDFixxer
download url: http://www.novell.com/communities/files/guidfixxer2.0beta.zip
Announcement: GUIDFixxer Now Supports Image Preparation and Commandline Options!
Image Preparation
Run
GUIDFixxer.exe -i
prior to imaging to ensure that no trace of the GUID is left on your source image. GuidFixxer.exe goes beyond the zac fsg -d command to prevent certain versions of Zenworks from attampting to pull the GUID back in from the filesystem, resulting in duplicate GUIDs on your targets.
Duplicate GUIDs
So, you just installed ZENworks 11 and start deploying to machines.
Suddenly, to your dismay, you notice something wrong. The machines you are registering don't seem to be showing up in ZENworks.
Suspecting trouble, you compare computers, looking in ZENworks Agent Properties. You notice that all of them have the same name!
You then run zac fsg and compare GUIDs. They are all the same!
What happened?
Most likely, your computer manufacturer didn't embed a serial number into the motherboard firmware. To ZENworks, these all look like the same computer.
Before you run this program, reconfigure your ZENworks Primary Server to ignore the Serial Number of the computers.
Go to Configuration --> Management Zone Settings --> Device Management --> Registration
Uncheck Serial Number under Reconciliation Settings.
Then, download GUIDFixxer.exe and run this tool on each affected computer that has the same GUID.
I welcome feedback and suggestions to improve this tool.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| guidfixxer2.0beta.zip | 299.1 KB |
Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).
It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.
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Explain more about what it does
Submitted by reni on 21 June 2013 - 3:30pm.
Nice tool! Can you give some more explanation of what it actually does? Delete some files? Alter registry?
Thanks in advance.
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