This is a script I wrote over a year ago but have only just rediscovered, I can’t remember if it works / or if I ever used it in production. But hopefully will be of use to someone (assuming it works).
If anyone tries it please respond and let me know how worked / any issues you had.
A while back I had a support case open with MS about some scripting in winPE. In order to debug the problem we wanted to see what variables were declared & what their values were. The support tech came up with the attachted script, I never got round to adding it to my scripts folder, so I ran it by opening a command shell in winPE (F8) then “net use Z: \\
Updated: 2011-08-18
This is the next evolution in the warranty info fight, Dell keep changing their site which is rather frustrating. I have re-written the Warranty Info Scripts in powershell as in my opinion the code is a lot cleaner and more manageable, I’ve tweaked the MOF edit required to read this.
One major change to the script is that I have added support for HP systems, now I must stress I only have one or two of these, both are out of warranty and only had base warranties so something may have been missed / may not work as expected. You can either fix it and let me know the changes you make or let me know, via the contact page, the tag of one of your systems and I will look at it when I get a chance.
If you use any other version of the script from my site you will need to update sms.mof as the reports have changed.
I am quite shameless so if you find this useful feel free to click on donate and well, donate. :D
What info do you get?
It’s been a while since I posted anything, but I’ve been really busy at home and in work.
Although I have beening using OSD for a while it hasn’t been completely automated, things like timezone, keyboard locale etc still need to be changed by an administrator after a rebuild. Now we have sites in America, UK, Europe and Japan, so I need to account for them in my task sequence. I will admit here that I had a bit of trouble with getting the script to work so I did get some help from MS (they added 2 lines of code to the script and 1 task sequence event).
There are 2 parts to this, 1st is the vbscript to detect and set the location and then some task sequence events to act on the variables we set.
When I was building our SCCM environment I decided it would be a good time to clean up WSUS & FCS and bring them under the new system.
The problem I ran into was “How do I repoint FCS?” without having to uninstall and reinstall it on every machine.
The solution, a bit of VB script based on the information here: http://blogs.technet.com/fcsnerds/archive/2008/11/12/changing-the-management-group-to-which-an-fcs-client-reports.aspx
UPDATED 2011-02-10: Added support for 33000+ records. Thanks to Mike for finding the limitation and testing the solution. (Note for 33000 records script takes about 1.5hrs to run)
The VBScript loops through the AD and lists all of the computer accounts in a csv file.
The Excel Code does the same except places the data in a formated table in excel, note it is only tested with excel 2007.
The following properties are returned:
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 2010-09-14: Dell have changed the layout to add an extra field in the contracts section so the scripts are broken
UPDATE 2010-07-09: I’ve noticed this page is getting a lot of hits, I haven’t had a chance to get this working yet so if anyone does please post a comment or drop me a mail using the contact page. I’ll try and get some time next week to look at it again.
These scripts are a work in progress and you should check back regularly for updates until I mark them as final.
This is an updated version of the “SCCM Get Dell warranty info“
Basically the problem with the other script is that a user with admin privs must run it or the computer account must have access to the internet.
I have split the script in 2 and rejigged it slightly so that now 1 (user) script is run “When user is logged on with the users privliges” and the other (system) script is run 2nd “When user is logged on with administrative privliges”. 
You can use the “Run another program 1st” option in the program definition which should make it practically act like a single script.
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.
