JAmes and I have made a couple changes to the Monitor section of your script. We exported a list of Laptops out od AD to run in the script. We also only wanted the monitor that are currenty connected. We think that the ones whit a control key are the monitor currentl connected. Let us know what you think.

Thanks
Larry

# ***********************************************
# * FindMonitor FindMonitorSN.PS1 *
# * Find Monitor Serial Number *
# * Creaters: Larry Arndorfer & James Hunt *
# * Revisions: 2011-05-23 Created *
# ***********************************************

Clear-Host

function Pause ($Message=”Press any key to continue…”){
“”
Write-Host $Message
$null = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(“NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown”)
}

function GetCompName{
$list = Import-Csv “C:\AD_Laptops.csv” -Header “Laptops”

foreach($compname in $list)
{
$compname = $($compname.Laptops)
CheckHost
}
}

function CheckHost{
$ping = gwmi Win32_PingStatus -filter “Address=’$compname’”
if($ping.StatusCode -eq 0){$pcip=$ping.ProtocolAddress; GetInfo}
else{“$compname down”}
}

function GetInfo{

# ********* Monitor Info ************

#Turn off Error Messages
$ErrorActionPreference_Backup = $ErrorActionPreference
$ErrorActionPreference = “SilentlyContinue”

$keytype=[Microsoft.Win32.RegistryHive]::LocalMachine
if($reg=[Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey($keytype,$compname)){
#Create Table To Hold Info
$montable = New-Object system.Data.DataTable “Monitor Info”
#Create Columns for Table
$moncol1 = New-Object system.Data.DataColumn Model,([string])
$moncol2 = New-Object system.Data.DataColumn Serial,([string])
$moncol3 = New-Object system.Data.DataColumn Ascii,([string])
$moncol4 = New-Object system.Data.DataColumn Computer,([string])
#Add Columns to Table
$montable.columns.add($moncol1)
$montable.columns.add($moncol2)
$montable.columns.add($moncol3)
$montable.columns.add($moncol4)

$regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey(“SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Enum\DISPLAY” )
$HID = $regkey.GetSubKeyNames()
foreach($HID_KEY_NAME in $HID){
$regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey(“SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Enum\\DISPLAY\\$HID_KEY_NAME” )
$DID1 = $regkey.GetSubKeyNames()
foreach($DID_KEY_NAME in $DID1){
$CheckActive = “False”
$regKey2=$reg.OpenSubKey(“SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Enum\\DISPLAY\\$HID_KEY_NAME\\$DID_KEY_NAME”)
$DID2=$regKey2.GetSubKeyNames()
foreach($DID2_KEY_NAME in $DID2){
If($DID2_KEY_NAME -EQ “Control”){
$regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey(“SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Enum\\DISPLAY\\$HID_KEY_NAME\\$DID_KEY_NAME\\Device Parameters” )
$EDID = $regKey.GetValue(“EDID”)
foreach($int in $EDID){
$EDID_String = $EDID_String+([char]$int)
}
#Create new row in table
$monrow=$montable.NewRow()

#ComputerName
$monrow.Computer = $compname

#MonitorName
$checkstring = [char]0×00 + [char]0×00 + [char]0×00 + [char]0xFC + [char]0×00
$matchfound = $EDID_String -match “$checkstring([\w ]+)”
if($matchfound){$monrow.Model = [string]$matches[1]} else {$monrow.Model = ‘-’}

#Serial Number
$checkstring = [char]0×00 + [char]0×00 + [char]0×00 + [char]0xFF + [char]0×00
$matchfound = $EDID_String -match “$checkstring(\S+)”
if($matchfound){$monrow.Serial = [string]$matches[1]} else {$monrow.Serial = ‘-’}

#AsciiString
$checkstring = [char]0×00 + [char]0×00 + [char]0×00 + [char]0xFE + [char]0×00
$matchfound = $EDID_String -match “$checkstring([\w ]+)”
if($matchfound){$monrow.Ascii = [string]$matches[1]} else {$monrow.Ascii = ‘-’}

$EDID_String = ”

$montable.Rows.Add($monrow)
}
}
}
}
$montable | select-object -unique Computer,Serial,Model,Ascii | Where-Object {$_.Serial -ne “-”} | Format-Table
} else {
Write-Host “Access Denied – Check Permissions”
}
$ErrorActionPreference = $ErrorActionPreference_Backup #Reset Error Messages
#Pause
#CheckHost
}

#———Start Main————–
$compname = $args[0]
if($compname){CheckHost}
else{GetCompName}

Thank you.

Check out http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/monitor_info_view.html . This tool pulls a lot of monitor information from a PC. It is just an extended version of my powershell script (as an exe), but it is dedicated just to monitors.

One question. Is there a way to get just the serial numbers of the installed monitor(s)? Some of our systems have had 3 or 4 monitors over their lifetime and it would be nice to get just the currently used monitor info. Or if the systems are imaged it contains the monitor from the original base system.

1) This will only show locally installed printers. If however, the network printer was installed using a tcp/ip port (instead of a network share), it will show up.

2)That is great that you are going to use this for your service desk! Let me know how it works. To get it to work with username/passwords (in case your techs are not local admins on the pc’s) You can have it prompt for a password, and then send it with the get-wmiobject. To do so, you will first need to prompt for a username and password. I think the best way to do this is to change the main area to something like:

$compname = $args[0]
$cred = Get-Credential
if($compname){CheckHost}
else{GetCompName}

And then for each get-wmiobject (gwmi) user the -credential flag. So for the serialnumber it would look like:

gwmi -computer $compname Win32_BIOS -Credential $cred | Select-Object SerialNumber | Format-List

Hope that helps….let me know how it goes.

(P.S. – The monitor serial number uses the registry instead of wmi, and that may take some more tweaking to get it to work with authentication)

I have two queries:

1) When i run the printer info it doesnt show me the networked printer on the users machine.

2) I wish to use this for our service desk users so that they can remote to peoples machines…How do i alter it so hat it asks for a username and password? Also would like the password not to be shown.

Many thanks