Web services

If the MDT database and UserExit script are still not sufficient for customizations, you can further extend MDT with the use of web services.

Jase T. Wolfe wrote a good explanation of web service in his QuickStart Guide to Using Web Services in MDT / SCCM (http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2013/03/07/a-quickstart-guide-to-using-web-services-in-mdt-sccm/):

"For those not completely familiar with a web service (WS), the condensed and over simplified introduction is this: A WS is a middle man that simplifies obtaining information or performing a process on behalf of the client and returning some type of data to the client. As the name suggests, the WS is a web based process which is used (in this article) by having a source client make ...

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