KACE Product Support

You could start with the dell warranty report.

You could try a custom http query to populate a custom inventory field, based on date of purchase, via the service tag.

Do all the machines have dell warranty info posted? If so does the oldest date posted for that represent when it was first deployed?

Is there anything (file, etc) that you put on the system (during imaging or setup) that would be timestamped?

The OS installdate can be obtained. I googled and modified the code here to come up with:
strComputer = "."
Set dtmInstallDate = CreateObject( _
"WbemScripting.SWbemDateTime")
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _
& strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
Wscript.echo("Install Date: " & getmydat (objOperatingSystem.InstallDate))
Next

Function getmydat(wmitime)
dtmInstallDate.Value = wmitime
getmydat = fnConvertToMySQLDate(dtmInstallDate.GetVarDate)

End function

Function fnConvertToMySQLDate(varDate)
Dim sDay,sMonth
If day(varDate) < 10 Then
sDay = "0" & day(varDate)
else
sDay = day(varDate)
end if
If month(varDate) < 10 Then
sMonth = "0" & month(varDate)
Else
sMonth = month(varDate)
End If
fnConvertToMySQLDate = year(varDate) & "-" & sMonth & "-" & sDay & " "& hour(varDate) & "-" & minute(varDate) & "-" & second(varDate)
End Function

The running cscript installdate.vbs //Nologo
yeilds something that's easy to read and could be put into a custom inventory field and in a date format mysql will be cool with.

I needed something similar and used Ship Date. To create mine, I started with the Dell Expired Warranty report and customized it.

I ended up with:


SELECT M.NAME AS MACHINE_NAME, M.CS_MODEL AS MODEL, DA.SERVICE_TAG, DA.SHIP_DATE,M.USER_LOGGED AS LAST_LOGGED_IN_USER FROM KBSYS.DELL_ASSET DA LEFT JOIN MACHINE M ON (M.BIOS_SERIAL_NUMBER = DA.PARENT_SERVICE_TAG OR M.BIOS_SERIAL_NUMBER = DA.SERVICE_TAG)
WHERE M.CS_MANUFACTURER LIKE '%dell%'
AND M.BIOS_SERIAL_NUMBER!='
AND DA.DISABLED != 1
ORDER BY DA.SHIP_DATE;


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