Change device ownership – The journey through log files, WMI and PowerShell of ConfigMgr 2012
Last week I’ve got the question about how to quickly change the device owner of all mobile devices. This question was based on the fact that by default the device owner is set to Personal and that default value cannot be changed. The Configuration Manager console answer is easy, select the devices, right-click and select Change Ownership. But now the real question(s), how does this work and is this scriptable? This blog post will contain my small journey through the SMSProv.log, WMI, PowerShell and TechNet for an answer. PowerShell part I – Change Ownership After a quick browse through the cmdlet referent on TechNet, I noticed that this should be very easy to achieve via PowerShell. There is a cmdlet available Set-CMDeviceOwnership that does exactly …