SCCM Get Dell warranty info

Ryan 29 Comments

2011-07-11: This method is now deprecated please go here: http://ninet.org/2011/07/dell-hp-warranty-info-in-sccm

LAST UPDATED: 2010-09-22

UPDATE 2010-09014: Dell have changed the layout to add an extra field in the contracts section so the scripts are broken

Version 2: work around for computer account that can’t access the internet http://ninet.org/2010/03/sccm-get-dell-warranty-info-v2/

I found a script and mof edit here: Sherry Kissinger’s Blog at myitforums.com

However when I tried it, it was completely broken all the data being returned in the wrong place. So I have rewritten it so that it is more modular and hopefully easier to maintain.

Now a bit of a disclaimer, my vbs skills are very rusty so the script works though it probably isn’t very efficient. So if you can suggest improvements please do and I’ll update the script as needed.

Although the code is long most of it is comments and “wscript.echo” statements for debugging, feel free to strip them out if you want something more compact.

I have also added the ability to dump the results to a csv file that you can collect with SCCM if you don’t want to capture from WMI.

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Dell Scraper

Ryan 3 Comments

Due to failings in the past, our inventory system is in need of a revamp as it is missing both systems and information as part of the revamp we decided to scrap everything we new and reinventroy everything. We use a lot of dell systems and I figured that as we had collected the service tags of a number of systems we could get the info about that system from the dell site. I wrote a quick python script to take a list of service tags and output the system info as a csv file in the format “tag, shipdate, SysType, Ram, HDD, Support”.

E.g.

"4GXCB1H","2008-03-29","Latitude D430","2GB","80GB","3Y NBD INTERNATIONAL (NEXT BUSINESS DAY);UPG TO 4Y NBD INTERNATIONAL (NEXT BUSINE"

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Site revamp

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With the change of the year I have decided to give the site a complete make over.

As I get time I’ll repopulate the old data.

I haven’t decided if I’ll bring the wiki back or not yet, if there is demand I will bring it back but if not I think I’ll just keep the site as simple as possible. Also due to the revamp my email address for this site is out of action for a while (I was getting a lot of spam in it anyhow), until I get a chance to fix it so post here and I’ll get back to you.

Please be patient as I have just moved house and have no internet, so I am having to do the site updates on my lunch hour.
Sorry to those that took the time to register, you’ll need to re-register as I am taking this chance to clear out the hundreds of spam accounts. Read More