Peter’s Soapbox

Dell System Analyzer Is a Waste of Time

While looking for hardware upgrades for a client’s server this morning, I decided to run the Dell hardware analyzer via their website to save myself the time of digging up the Dell Service Tag or running a one-line PowerShell command, I watched as the system installed an ActiveX control in the browser (always a pleasent feeling…)  and identified the server as…

a P703w All-in-One Printer

OR

V505 & V505w All-in-One (PRODUCT) RED (tm) Printer.

Uhm. Okay. Right… That was helpful.