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PowerShell - Get serial numbers for computers in Active Directory
# Requires ActiveRoles CmdLets from Quest Software (They're free and awesome) - http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx
Get-QADComputer -searchroot "OU=yourcomputerOUname,dc=yourdomain,dc=com" -SizeLimit 0 |
ForEach-Object {
$hostname = $_.name
$serialnumber = (Get-WMIObject Win32_BIOS -computer $hostname -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).SerialNumber
if (-not $serialnumber) {
Add-Content d:\logfiles\offlinehosts.txt "$hostname is in offline"
}
else {
Write-Host "$hostname,$serialnumber" # output to screen
Add-Content d:\logfiles\serialnumberlist.txt "$hostname,$serialnumber"
}
}
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