A few months ago I suggested adding to the JSS a feature of this website
<http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html> where you can get
the manufacture date of a Mac via the serial number.
Someone recently posted the basics of how to do this on the MacEnterprise
list. I'm posting it here:
Take your serial number. The iMac I'm sitting at will provide the example.
CK6280BJU2R
The first two characters (generally) indicate the country or at least the
plant of manufacture (final assembly?). In this case, "CK" decodes to Cork.
Character 3 indicates the year of manufacture - in this case it's a 6, so
that means 2006.
Characters 4 and 5 indicate the week of the year in which the machine was
manufactured. In this case it's week 28 which equates to approximately the
end of July.
Parsing this information and including it in the JSS would be huge help to
us to generate a list of Macs that are due for replacement.
--
bill
William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
Digital Information Systems Support
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492
