Formatting Bios SerialNumber Script Output in PowerShell

Question

Newbie question new to KACE and Powershell, but I have been searching and reading for a while now and cannot figure out how to format so I only get serial number value from bios.

Using 1st part of script below I get "Serialnumber : 1GXBJL1"

where all I want is the "1GXBJL1" that I can pass to 2nd part.

# Getting the Serial Number from Bios and Outputting to Defined Variable.

gwmi win32_bios | Format-List serialnumber -OutVariable CN

# Renaming..

Rename-Computer -NewName "$CN" -Restart

Thanks in advance.

Mark

Answer

That did the trick. It pulled the Serial number out as a value. That value was then used to rename computer. All of our Pc's are Dell's and they already have a unique serial number in bios so we use that for our computer names.

Here is clean copy of final script.

Answered by

flip1001

I was just trying to clean up a final answer for others to read

# Getting the Serial Number from Bios and Outputting to Defined Variable.

$CN = (gwmi win32_bios).serialnumber