Help! Serial Number of PCs on network

[rocknrollstar]

Hi, I have to do a VERY quick inventory of the pcs/laptops at our school. With over 100 serial numbers to get, is there any piece of software that will tell me these quickly?

We have a windows 2000 server, with XP clients. Mix of laptops and desktops.

Many thanks!

[AJT1]

Spiceworks does this methinks

[eddyc]

It sure does, providing all machines are on, just download spice works and do a network scan.

[penfold]

Yup, Spiceworks can do a lot of that. But dont forget those non networked laptops (or those in the cupboard)

[rocknrollstar]

Thanks all, you've saved my bacon

[sparkeh]

Though be aware that not all manufacturers put the serial number in BIOS and may find it returns 'Serial Number'

Discovered a while ago that NEC dont do this (at a completely NEC site) so had to walk around anyway and enter them manually

[Cools]

same here had evesham PCs, now i have HP and all's good.

[Geoff]

Just add it to your checklist of things to look for when evaluating your potential new PCs.

[pete]

If you're running WSUS, it also pulls it in via the bios (look at machine details)

[Scruff]

Fog's hardware inventory task will also do this if you happen to use it as your imaging solution.

If not, i agree with the spiceworks option

[FN-GM]

This will do the job - Inventory Your network

[TechSupp]

User a very similar version of that scripts hereand it worked just fine, edited it to give me a more basic PC spec list though.

[rocknrollstar]

Fog's hardware inventory task will also do this if you happen to use it as your imaging solution.

If not, i agree with the spiceworks option

Thanks- I do use FOG for imaging, but it didn't have all the details for all the pcs unfortunately. Perhaps I didn't do a full inventory when adding the machines to the FOG server.

[keogk]

OpenAudit will also provide that info to you as well as a bunch of other info. You can push the audit out from a GPO as well. I use it as well as spiceworks

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[Domino]

I found spiceworks far too unwieldy and slow.

Lansweeper is much more lightweight, extensible and provides far more information