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For God knows how many years (yes, really!), I have been building a tool to automate adding applications to SCCM in a GUI.
For historical reasons, I am using VBScript in an HTA rather than Powershell. Please: I don't have the time to adapt all my code to PS, never mind rebuilding the UI in Windows Forms (or whatever) so can I respectfully ask that you do not reply with "Just do it in PS." I wasted weeks trying to emulate the behaviour that I get with hiding and revealing HTML elements on a page, depending on user choices.
So my pain is in just 3 parts of the creation of the SDMPackageXML data. The bulk of the resulting XML exactly matches the output I get when retrieving the SDMPackageXML from existing applications, so my code is good. I have two "issues", though.
Presently, I generate 10-digit random numbers to use for my ID numbers such as ResourceID. On some of my existing applications, however, the numbers are 9 digits in length. I suspect there is a query that can be run against the database to produce the number, as I strongly suspect that they are meant to be consecutive.
Next, I have failed at the hurdle of creating the ID stringfor the icon. The icon ID entry looks like this:
Any idea how that's generated? If you have an algorithm for it too, I'd be forever in your debt.
Lastly, how do I create the binary stream for the icon data? Most of what I've read suggests that it's Base-64 encoded but no matter whose code I use - including the method which uses the ADODB.Stream object - I end up with lines 72 characters long. Here are the first 2 lines from one:
whereas the line-length in an existing application's XML is 1025 (apart from the first which is 81 characters):
Also, the lead characters in each of the existing application's XML are always "iVBORw0KGgo" whereas mine never are.
Again, if you have an algorithm, so much the better.
For historical reasons, I am using VBScript in an HTA rather than Powershell. Please: I don't have the time to adapt all my code to PS, never mind rebuilding the UI in Windows Forms (or whatever) so can I respectfully ask that you do not reply with "Just do it in PS." I wasted weeks trying to emulate the behaviour that I get with hiding and revealing HTML elements on a page, depending on user choices.
So my pain is in just 3 parts of the creation of the SDMPackageXML data. The bulk of the resulting XML exactly matches the output I get when retrieving the SDMPackageXML from existing applications, so my code is good. I have two "issues", though.
Presently, I generate 10-digit random numbers to use for my ID numbers such as ResourceID. On some of my existing applications, however, the numbers are 9 digits in length. I suspect there is a query that can be run against the database to produce the number, as I strongly suspect that they are meant to be consecutive.
Next, I have failed at the hurdle of creating the ID stringfor the icon. The icon ID entry looks like this:
Any idea how that's generated? If you have an algorithm for it too, I'd be forever in your debt.
Lastly, how do I create the binary stream for the icon data? Most of what I've read suggests that it's Base-64 encoded but no matter whose code I use - including the method which uses the ADODB.Stream object - I end up with lines 72 characters long. Here are the first 2 lines from one:
whereas the line-length in an existing application's XML is 1025 (apart from the first which is 81 characters):
Also, the lead characters in each of the existing application's XML are always "iVBORw0KGgo" whereas mine never are.
Again, if you have an algorithm, so much the better.
