We use an asset management and tracking tool to show the assignment of PCs to users. The PC names don't have any relationship to the user. Putting user information in the PC names doesn't scale well, as you note.
-Malcolm From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 10:53 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Workstation names and who it belongs to How do you guys handle matching users to machines? We currently have a PC naming standard of <firstinitial><lastname>-<model> but this obviously doesn't scale. One possibility is putting the user name in the description field in AD (I do this for %sidejob%), but I was wondering if there was a better way to automatically get a machine <->user lookup. How do you guys handle it? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
