BDD2007 - Bulk database updates

posted by  sfiroz (90)  11 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

I am often asked how I perform bulk updates to the BDD 2007 database. BDD 2.5 provided a tool to perform this task but BDD 2007 does not. To get around this issue I use a simple CSV import process. Unlike the BDD 2.5 the BDD 2007 database is made up of multiple tables, so when adding computers to the database you must update all of the tables related to those computers. For example when creating a new computer you must first create a record in the ComputerIdentity table. This will create an ID that...(