Get Serial Number From A Windows Machine

On a Windows based operating system you can find out the serial number for a machine using WMIC – the command line interpreter for WMI. This can be used for the local machine or a remote machine.

From the command prompt:

For the local machine

wmic bios get serialnumber

For remote machine(s) using /node

wmic /node:[ADDRESS/COMPUTER NAME] bios get serialnumber

/node
Computer names either comma delimited or listed within a file. File names have to be prefixed with &. Computer names/addresses within the file must be comma delimited or on separate lines.

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