ConfigMgr: Global Conditions for Dell WD15 Dock Detection

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

DELL WD15 DOCK DETECTION

Ever wanted to firmware update the Dell WD15 dock or exclude them from some deployments? Here's a way to do that, it´s called Global Conditions.

In my quest on how to detect Dell WD15 dock during OS Deployment I figured out that TB16 and WD15 are both using Realtek USB GbE Family Controller and Realtek USB Audio, but only TB16 are using ASMedia USB3.0 eXtensible Host Controller.

I'm using a really awesome PowerShell tool “WMI Explorer” to find all kind of useful informations. Download it here

So what I've done in our environment, is that I'm looking at those 3 instances in the WMI Win32_PnPEntity class to determine if a Dell WD15 dock is attached.

Global Conditions Setting

In ConfigMgr go to Software Library -> Application Management -> Global Conditions I've created 3 Global Conditions based on above instances by adding a small PowerShell script to each of them that return a true or false result.

Give them a name and set Device Type as windows and Condition Type as setting. Set Setting Type as script, select boolean for Data Type and add a script.

You should end up with something like this.

PowerShell examples.

$WMI = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\cimv2 -class Win32_PnPEntity -Filter "Name LIKE '%Realtek USB GbE%'"
if($WMI){return $true}else{return $false}

$WMI = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\cimv2 -class Win32_PnPEntity -Filter "Name LIKE '%Realtek USB Audio%'"
if($WMI){return $true}else{return $false}

$WMI = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\cimv2 -class Win32_PnPEntity -Filter "Name LIKE '%ASMedia USB3.0%'"
if($WMI){return $true}else{return $false}

On a device attached to a Dell WD15 dock it should return the following results.

• Realtek USB GbE Family Controller = True

• Realtek USB Audio = True

• ASMedia USB3.0 eXtensible Host Controller = False

Adding these Global Condition to you application deployment type should do the job.

Global Conditions Expression

But just to make it pretty and easy you could as I did create a new Global Condition as an expression type, so in you applications deployment type you just have to add 1 requirement instead of 3.

Create a new Global Condition, give it a name and set Device Type as windows, Condition Type as expression and add clauses as below.

Add the Global Condition to requirements on the Applications Deployment Type

Afterwards I ran a simulated deployment on a test application and viewed the result in Monitoring -> Deployments

You can now detect Dell WD15 docks with Global Conditions and I hope this post will help you getting started with Global Conditions in general. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions regarding this topic. I am most active on Twitter!