Remove Whitespace from Computer Names

Hi Everyone,

I have the following code set up in my UI++ XML:

<Action Type="TSVar" Name="OSDComputerName">"%department%"Left("%XHWAssetTag%",7)</Action>


Pretty simple code. It inserts the department variable from a user selection and then appends the serial number to the computer name in the MECM/SCCM task sequence.

I am running into an issue with imaging VM's (Vsphere specifically) because the serial includes whitespace between many of the characters. I had used the following code in powershell to resolve the problem in a previous task sequence:

$serial = $serial.Replace(' ', '')



$serial = $serial.Substring(7, 9)

But that is powershell and I'm not sure how to do this in the UI++ XML file. Any assistance or ideas on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Sterling