Pc model only based OS installation wds/ mdt

Hello everybody,
Searched on the net but still confused about WDS/MDT and TS. Well, we have in our organization many hardware pc-types and many manufactures. I want WDS/ MDT to start the installation
of the Windows 7 x64 OS ONLY on Toshiba and HP models pc's and STOPs (Quits)
the installation directly if the pc-model is different (= Dell or Fujitsu or Samsung or Acer for example) .
I want this condition to be on the start of the installation so that nothing changes on the "wrong models" (= The Dell or Fujitsu or Samsung or Acer).
My question is how and where, in which TS, can I accomplish this goal?
I have a WMI vbs file that checks the model type. But I do not know how and where to use it.
Thanks in advance!

When you perform a PXE boot on a computer and select a discover image, the Windows Deployment Services client performs the following actions:
The client downloads the boot image from the server and the image boots. At boot time, Setup.exe is invoked and it parses any command-line options that were passed to it. Setup sees that it is in Windows Deployment Services discovery mode and connects to
the specified server to download the install image.
Setup.exe (Autorun) is launched automatically by Windows PE (through the commands specified in WinPEshl.ini).
Setup.exe (Autorun) parses the command lines passed to it (at a minimum,
setup.exe /WDS /WDSDiscover, and optionally, setup.exe /WDS /WDSDiscover /WDSServer:MyWDSServer). Setup realizes that it should be in Windows Deployment Services mode. Autorun continues to run in the background (never showing UI) and
invokes regular Setup.exe with the command-line arguments as they are passed in.
Setup.exe detects that it is in Windows Deployment Services discovery mode. One of the following occurs:
If a server name was specified using the /WDSServer option, the Windows Deployment Services client contacts that server directly. (Skip to step 7.)
If /WDSServer was not specified, the client will initiate a PXE request by broadcasting a Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) discover packet with the PXE option (option tag 60 set to the string PXEClient) to destination port UDP 67. The
client waits for a response from a valid PXE server. The emulated PXE request sent by the Windows Deployment Services client adheres to the standards specified by the PXE specification (including using the specified response delay settings).
When a valid Windows Deployment Services server is located, the client sends a DHCP request packet to UDP port 4011 of the responding PXE server (in the case of static mode, the client sends the packet to the server specified with
/WDSServer). The client expects a valid response (DHCP acknowledgment signal, or ACK) from the PXE server.
The client connects to the Windows Deployment Services server by using the specified communication channel, and the normal installation steps continue.

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