Issue / Question How to retrieve VC80 device serial number from registry Customer would like to extract VC80 Windows OS device serial number from registry for MDM. This article provides a way to retrieve VC80 device serial number from registry using Registry Editor or WMIC tool Applicable To VC80 Resolution / Answer For VC80s, the device serial number is recorded in VCControl Panel>System Info: Alternatively one can retrieve it from registry using Registry Editor or The serial number is recorded in: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE VC System Information] 'SerialNumber'='S1181' And can also be retrieve using the WMIC command: bios get serialnumber.

Just to reinforce what Matt says above, SMS_DEF.mof has nothing to do with network discovery. Network discovery is one of the discovery methods available for finding resources on a network, in this case valid network endpoints. Discoveries do not interrogate those resources extensively, they merely find them and create resources in the database for them. The AD based discoveries return some additional details because those details are already in AD and the network discovery can return some information on Windows systems.

SMS_DEF.mof controls which WMI classes and attributes that ConfigMgr queries and retrieves during a HW inventory. Because printers, even local printers, don't report details like their serial numbers to Windows, there is no way by default to get this information using ConfigMgr -- none of the printer classes I reviewed had a any type of serial number attribute. Also, because ConfigMgr itself doesn't manage printers, there is nothing really built in to achieve this. You could conceivably create a HW inventory extension, but that extension would depend on some outside process to retrieve the serial number which is dependent on the printers in your environment. Eee Pc 701sd Windows 7 Drivers. Jason Twitter @JasonSandys. You might be interested in, or the dataldr scripts to gather information about 'what network printer resources is this user connected to'. The sccmexpert scripts are NOT designed to gather info about printer serial numbers (for example).

The dataldr printer script is designed to help determine 'who uses the network printer available as PrintServerName PrinterName From a Configmgr Hardware Inventory standpoint, what you can gather (by default) regarding printers is information related to the computer -- i.e., locally connected printers (LPT1:, USB, or explicitly defined via tcp/ip port, or other local printers like XPS). To leverage information about printer connections a User of that computer may elect to make, that requires a 3rd-party custom script to run to gather that information and place it in a location available to hardware Inventory to pick up.