re: MDT 2010 New Feature #14: Database improvements

Eggg84 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:19:06 GMT

I figured, i remember poking around the source code and feeling the same way you did in the first section of this post :) I ended up making a web-ui to handle it instead (less to update if the MDT gets changed)

Thanks for the fast response! looking forward to rolling out MDT 2010 :)

re: MDT 2010 New Feature #14: Database improvements

Michael Niehaus — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:41:00 GMT

The UI will only handle new columns added to the existing Settings table, sorry.

-Michael

re: MDT 2010 New Feature #14: Database improvements

Eggg84 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:07:18 GMT

Is it possible to add entire tables or only columns to existing tables?

I've converted my environment to entirely run off of webservices, and have created two custom tables (following the layout that the current tables use, and using the same clustered-pkey structure to identify L/M/C/R, ID and Sequence)

But i use mine to do things like automatically join AD Security groups, and bring down user-profile configurations dynamically based on location. Will it be possible to add tables (without downloading sourcecode and modifying it to add new tabs/tables) or is this strictly limited to adding columns to the existing tables on a "category" basis?

I do this to keep everything central to one server. The same ini file can be delivered to 50 sites and i can control all 50' sites configurations from my one primary MDT box, making my 'server replication' much less often..

Just wondering, if not, no big deal, i can likely find a way to incorporate it into the existing tables, though it would likely be tricky.. some of my tables include actual script code (new lines tend to be problematic)

Thanks :)

-Dustin