Hello spanman,

 

If you are willing to do a manual "one-time" setup on each PC, this utility will do it for you on every subsequent startup and you can place the information anywhere on your desktop.

 

Check it out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557.aspx

 

Please respond back if it can be of any use in your situation.

 

NJGroundHog

Google for a couple of applicaiton named CNS and BG Info.  Both will display the name but unsure if they could be teaked to get the Service tag.

Hello spanman and jmwills,

 

Just for reference, the link I previously provided is for BGInfo.

 

For the perviously described intent, it can meet those requirements; however, it would have to be done in the custom mode which permits a WMI query of the BIOS information or it can extract that information from a text file if the admin wants to work it that way and there are several other ways to do it as well.  This is basically the script spanman was asking for, wrapped inside a windows executable.  If I read the requirements correctly... it doesn't get any better than this utility for those purposes.

 

In fact, I'll really be surprised if spanman doesn't respond confirming it will work for his purposes.

 

NJGroundHog 

I will have it on hold for you!!

That worked a treat Guys,

Thank you very Much, if you are ever down around Wexford in Ireland give me a shout
and i will buy you a few beers!!!

Guiness on draft please

 

Hello spanman,

 

Glad it worked for you!  Put that beer on hold until I get off the wagon... been 6 months now and I'm dying for a beer!

 

 

Thanks,

 

NJGroundHog

 

 

If you use BGInfo, you can add a user defined field called Dell Service Tag.

Click the Custom button under the fields options, then New.

Name it Dell Service Tag

Select WMI Query

Then add this to the path: SELECT SerialNumber FROM Win32_BIOS

et voila