Here is simple command line that works on Windows XP/VISTA/Windows 7, if you are in need to get the serial number aka TAG from remote computer on your network.

Powershell Get Serial Number Remote Computer Software
Powershell Get Serial Number Remote Computers

Go to START / RUN and type CMD click OK
now type in this command :
wmic /user:Administrator /node:Computername bios get serialnumber
Once you press ENTER, you will be prompted for your Administrator password
Enter the Administrator’s password, press ENTER and you will receive the serial number aka TAG from the remote computer

In situations where a remote systems serial is required, they do nothing but reaching that machine physically. Enough doing hard work and be smart, guys; here is a small powershell code which helps you to get serial number of local or remote machine without moving your feet. PS C: (Get-WmiObject -computer COMP-A -cl win32BIOS).SerialNumber. Wmic bios get serialnumber If you need both serial number and model number of your computer, run the following instead which gives you both info at once. Wmic csproduct get name, identifyingnumber You can also run the following cmdlet if you are a fan of PowerShell.

Since I regularly need the HP Product Code and the Serial Number for our Workstations I thought why not read them with Powershell. On Localhost: Get-WmiObject win32bios Select-Object SerialNumber.this works like a charm. But, if I want to get the Serial Number for a remote computer I always get the Serial Number of the localhost-computer. Get serial number/TAG from remote pc with use of wmic Posted on July 6, 2010 by CloudWarrior Here is simple command line that works on Windows XP/VISTA/Windows 7, if you are in need to get the serial number aka TAG from remote computer on your network. PowerShell – Get serial numbers for computers in Active Directory There are a lot of posts about pulling data from a file to do actions against computers/users. While this is valuable, I prefer to do dynamic capturing of computer and user objects directly from my Active Directory.

Powershell Get Serial Number Remote Computer Software

UPDATE (2017):

Noted that this does not work very well on current Windows 10 machines. However here is easy replacement to achieve same goal with PowerShell :-):

For Locale computer:

For Remote computer:

This will provide you with detail information about BIOS on the local/remote machine:

SMBIOSVersion
Manufacturer
Name
Serial Number
Version

Have fun !

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Quick way to get the Service tag number on a computer that got it ripped off or on a remote computer.

1 Steps total

Step 1: Use WMIC

Here is the command to run in command prompt: wmic bios get serialnumber.
You also can use WMIC for a remote computer. Here it is: wmic /node:%computername% bios get serialnumber.

This helps when i am at a remote site and quickly need to get the service tag number on a remote computer of it got ripped off the computer I am working at.

Published: Feb 17, 2011 · Last Updated: Feb 18, 2011

3 Comments

Powershell Get Serial Number Remote Computers

Datil
Gearhead89 Feb 17, 2011 at 11:32am
Thanks for the how-to, we run 99% Dell so this will be very useful.
Jalapeno
Chunky Monkey Feb 18, 2011 at 04:07am
This is very nice.
Sonora
Nagendra Prasad Oct 25, 2016 at 11:18pm
u can even try lansweeper..it generates detailed report in xls format.

Powershell Get Serial Number Remote Computer Software

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1 Steps total

Step 1: Use WMIC

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Powershell Get Serial Number Remote Computers