Well there's no reason why you couldn't just use vbscript to do the whole thing anyway... Or even just a simple batch file to pipe the output of ipconfig/all to a file - e.g
ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt
Though if you use something like WMI you could also collect other info (OS version for example)... It would be more work but a better way might be to produce an ISP style dial up / access CD (or just a program) that you can hand out to students that basically requires them to only:
1) Get the program on the PC (e.g. insert CD)
2) Program autoruns if possible
3) Program asks for validated user id / password (printed separately)
4) These are submitted to some kind of 'public' / DMZ part of the uni's infrastructure and if they are accepted the program then uploads the MAC address, etc and configures the client PC as appropriate
Just a thought anyway
