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pcgolfer85

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May 19, 2008
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I am looking for a way to have a Mac that is bound to Active Directory report it's serial number and have it populate the description field in AD. Has anyone successfully made this work? Thanks
 
A bash script could be written to get the serial number, join the machine to the domain, and then update the required attribute.

Hints:

1. Get the serial#
system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Serial Number" | rev | cut -d " " -f1 | rev

2. Join to the domain
https://developer.apple.com/library...win/Reference/ManPages/man8/dsconfigad.8.html

3. Update attribute
https://developer.apple.com/library...win/Reference/Manpages/man1/ldapmodify.1.html

Obviously if the hosts are already joined to the domain skip step (2).
 
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