The ChangeOwnership Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) class method, in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, changes ownership of the devices.

The following syntax is simplified from Managed Object Format (MOF) code and defines the method.

SInt32 ChangeOwnership(
	 UInt32 ResourceIDs[],
	 UInt32 DeviceOwner
	 SInt32 ReturnValue
);

Parameters

ResourceIDs

Data type: UInt32 ArrayQualifiers: [in]IDs of member resources.
DeviceOwner

Data type: UInt32Qualifiers: [in]The new owner of the machines.

1

Company

2

Personal
ReturnValue

Data type: SInt32Qualifiers: [out]The number of devices that were successfully reassigned ownership.
Important
Even if there is an error, some devices may still get reassigned ownership.

Return Values

An SInt32 data type that is 0 to indicate success or non-zero to indicate failure.

For more information about handling returned errors, see About Configuration Manager Errors.

Requirements

Runtime Requirements

For more information, see Configuration Manager Server Runtime Requirements.

Development Requirements

For more information, see Configuration Manager Server Development Requirements.

See Also