Run WMIC command across network

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Published on 2012-10-12T14:53:21Z Indexed on 2012/10/12 15:40 UTC
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Instead of typing this in a command prompt one at a time:

wmic /node:ipaddress /user:administrator /password:mypassword bios get serialnumber

How can I run that against one entire subnet and output to a text document? Since I do this every couple months to verify our inventory of computers, I would assume there would be a much of easier way I could put this in a batch script instead of doing it manually.

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