In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, you set the operating system deployment to respond to a specific set of network addresses by adding the required media access control (MAC) addresses to the BindExcept embedded property list. You must also set the BindPolicy embedded property to 1. This specifies that PXE requests are accepted on specified network address only. For more information about setting BindPolicy, see How to Set the PXE Service Point Response to All Network Interfaces.

To set the response for a specific network interface

  1. Set up a connection to the SMS Provider. For more information, see About the SMS Provider in Configuration Manager.

  2. Make a connection to the PXE service point resources section of the site control file.

  3. Get the BindExcept embedded property list.

  4. Add the MAC addresses to the BindExcept embedded property list.

  5. Commit the changes to the site control file.

Example

The following example method adds a supplied MAC address to the list of MAC address that are responded to.

For information about calling the sample code, see Calling Configuration Manager Code Snippets.

C#  Copy Code
public void SetNetworkInterface(WqlConnectionManager connection,
								string siteCode,
								string serverName,
								string macAddress)
{
	try
	{
		//Connect to distribution point instance.			
		IResultObject siteRole = connection.GetInstance("SMS_SCI_SysResUse.FileType=2,ItemName=\"[\\\"Display=\\\\\\\\" + serverName + "\\\\\\\"]MSWNET:[\\\"SMS_SITE=" + siteCode + "\\\"]\\\\\\\\" + serverName + "\\\\,SMS Distribution Point\",ItemType=\"System Resource Usage\",SiteCode=" + "\"" + siteCode + "\"");

		// Create temporary copy of the embedded properties.
		Dictionary<string, IResultObject> embeddedPropertyLists = siteRole.EmbeddedPropertyLists;

		// Get current mac addresses.
		string[] macAddresses = embeddedPropertyLists["BindExcept"]["Values"].StringArrayValue;

		//Convert to list.
		List<string> addressList = new List<string>();
		foreach (string address in macAddresses)
		{
			addressList.Add(address);
	}
		// Add the new mac address to the list.
		addressList.Add(macAddress);

		// Add the new mac address to the list.
		embeddedPropertyLists["BindExcept"]["Values"].StringArrayValue = addressList.ToArray();
		siteRole.EmbeddedPropertyLists = embeddedPropertyLists;

		// Save the settings. 
		siteRole.Put();
}
	catch (SmsException ex)
	{
		Console.WriteLine();
		Console.WriteLine("Failed. Error: " + ex.InnerException.Message);
}
}

The example method has the following parameters:

Parameter

Type

Description

connection

  • Managed: WqlConnectionManager

A valid connection to the SMS Provider.

serverName

  • Managed: String

The Configuration Manager server.

siteCode

  • Managed: String

The Configuration Manager site code.

macAddress

  • Managed: String

The MAC address to be added in the following format:

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Compiling the Code

The C# example has the following compilation requirements:

Namespaces

System

System.Collections.Generic

System.Text

Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider

Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider.WqlQueryEngine

Assembly

microsoft.configurationmanagement.managementprovider

adminui.wqlqueryengine

Robust Programming

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

Security

For more information about securing Configuration Manager applications, see Securing Configuration Manager Applications.

See Also