[Casper] Feature request (revised): Include manufacture date of machines in JSS

[Smith, William]

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