SCCM – Duplicate Device Records

A few days back I was investigating duplicate device records in SCCM. Basically, there are two major reasons for duplicate device records: Reinstalling a device Active Directory delta discovery For the first reason SCCM has some built-in solutions. In the Hierarchy Settings there’s an option for conflicting client records. This…

Powershell – looking up HP warranty information – part 2

Earlier I published a post about retrieving warranty information for HP hardware. However, the end date that is returned by the script might not always be correct! Let me explain… What the script does is executing a SOAP request to a website. The outcome of that request is XML data…

Powershell – looking up HP warranty information

Today I wanted to get an overview of the warranty information of our ESX hosts. All the hosts are added to a HP Insight Remote Support server so the warranty information is available. However, using this information from powershell is a bit more challenging. Fortunately I found a powershell module…