Lenovo warranty: the manual grind versus one runbook
Before: find a device in Intune, copy its serial, look warranty up on Lenovo’s portal — repeat for thousands, one at a time. After: one runbook writes warranty into every device’s Notes; it shows in the Intune report and CMDB.
Ketan Kamble
BEFORE · ONE AT A TIME
AFTER · ONE RUN, EVERYWHERE
STEP 1 · FIND THE DEVICE + SERIAL
MICROSOFT INTUNE · DEVICES
LT-4F2K9 · Lenovo · ThinkPad X1 · serial PF4X8K2R
STEP 2 · LOOK IT UP BY HAND
LENOVO SUPPORT · WARRANTY LOOKUP
Serial PF4X8K2R → Warranty 2023-04-01 → 2026-03-31
…and that’s just ONE device
STEP 3 · NOW REPEAT IT
× 2,340
devices, one at a time
every hardware refresh
one by one · by hand · every refresh
▶ Enrich-LenovoWarrantyToNotes.ps1
serial → Lenovo lookup → Device Notes → read everywhere
Notes: WarrantyEnd=2026-03-31
INTUNE · POWER BI REPORT
CMDB · ASSET RECORD
Warranty end · 2026-03-31
Warranty end · 2026-03-31
written once · read in
both Intune & CMDB
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