no one moves?
you're truly lucky.
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From: Melanie Rutberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Subject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
Hello,
My firm uses the following naming convention:
Every cubicle and office has a 4 digit location number associated with
it's location
headcount
also. :)
JayW
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/27/01 07:22PM
And a machine gets moved to another room and you have to rename it!
Greg
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From: Jay Woody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Workstation
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From: Jay Woody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
Wow, never thought of that. Yeah, that seems pretty obvious. ;)
Upside, we could lock the ports down where
my moneys worth in :D
John Sparrow
IT Support Assistant
Computer Department
Travco Ltd, London
http://www.travco.co.uk
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From: Greg Page [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 1:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
Title: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
If
you're going AD you can really use it to your own
preference.
For
example our AD is split Users are grouped in OU's based on company structure
i.e. Function - Department etc.
In
another section we have Machines by Geographic position i.e
: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
The problem with using the username is that now you have two resources with
the same name (the computer and the user), that'll mess up the messenger
service and quite likely the computer browser as well. Over the years, I've
used a number of schemes; right now I
Title: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
3
digit city, 1 digit OS, then machine inventory/asset tag# (this ties it back to
the inventory and username.)
looks
like we may be doing something similar with servers soon.
I
don't like the way 2000 automatically names machines
domainname
Title: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
Our
servers were named after Little Rascal characters, because before-my-time they
had a contest.At least it's easier to explain that Darla does this
and Spanky does that. I worked for anintegrator that came up with
these really cryptic server names
Title: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
We use
"Assett tags" here. Each PC has a sticker with a code on it. We have a database
with make, model, os, build version, user, locationetc. Very
useful.
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Foote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 28 Septembe
ber 2001 15:31To: NT System Admin IssuesSubject:
RE: Workstation Naming Standards
I
have a variety of workstations and use extracts of the name in a variety of
login script functions. I find it best to add the user name into the
description field and use the "view details
System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
I don't use user names. What happens when that employee quits?
You have to rename their machine as part of setting up a new user?
I would use City_Dept_JobFunction then add a number for multiple job
functions.
DJ
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In my organization (10,000+ desktops, 11,000+ laptops), I was able to come
up with a scheme that seems to work well (at least for us, YMMV). Each user
has a 6 character alphanumeric NT logon ID. We use W10101 for group
or shared machines, filling in the first set of X's with location
I don't use user names. What happens when that employee quits?
You have to rename their machine as part of setting up a new user?
I would use City_Dept_JobFunction then add a number for multiple job
functions.
DJ
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From: Osama S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Hi, I don't use user names in the computer name as you would need to
change it with every hire/fire/quit.
I won't go over my naming convention for this company on the net for
obvious reasons, however in previous locales I used a combination of the
street name and address of the various offices,
I have been through 3 different changes so far.
The first one was something like W0F01492. The W was for Workstation (servers got
A-F), multiple workstations got G,H, etc. 0F0 was a location code and all of our
sites had one (or more).1 was the floor. 492 was the room.
Second place was
Title: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
The problem with using the username is
that now you have two resources with the same name (the computer and the user),
thatll mess up the messenger service and quite likely the computer
browser as well. Over the years, Ive used a number of schemes
Why don't you got for something like this:
3 Letter Property Abbreviation - 3 Letter Department - 3 Numeric
Sequence
i.e. - ABCMIS001
We use that form of a scheme and then use a access database for documenting
everything from IP addresss, to software version to type of
The same way you are thinking about with one exception. Instead of the user
name we use the asset tag. Users come and go, PCs get reassigned, etc., but
the asset tag is unlikely to change until the asset is retired. I would go
with cityname-dept-asset tag.
Thanks
Site-Business Group-Asset Tag (Dell machines in this case)
So where they are in the world
Whose company they belong to, we have several sub-comanies
and a Dell Asset tag to make it unique and for support
So I workstations name would look like
CINSHR344fd
Cincinnait, Sherman, Asset tag
Robert
Location-Department/Room#-MachineSerialnumber
Two character location dash 4 character department/room# dash 7 character
serial number (padded with zeros or just the last 7 digits as necessary).
Using locations helps us when viewing accounts in AD to determine where a
computer account should live
Title: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
I use something simple - three letter office code, one letter
code for equipment type (in this case "W"), and a two digit base-36 code (00 to
ZZ) to identify the PC. PCs are therefore named GNDW01, GNDW02, and so
on.
I tried the spreadshee
: Kopacko, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
Why don't you got for something like this:
3 Letter Property Abbreviation - 3 Letter Department - 3 Numeric
Sequence
i.e
Hello,
My firm uses the following naming convention:
Every cubicle and office has a 4 digit location number associated with
it's location. We place a w before the number if it is a cubicle and
an O before the number if it is an office. We than have all of the
workstations documented in
Title: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
I
still use non-descript names. In my case, car names, because theyre plentiful
and easier to remember than XXY-003DC-7T. So, my computers are named things
like Camry, Chevelle, Viper, Yukon, etc. and then I just keep a spreadsheet of
whos using
Hi,
Here we use serial number of the computer and in the description,
it's the department name - phone extension. Since we only have IBM
workstation, we shouldn't have two identical s/n...
René
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From: Osama S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday,
]
To: NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
Hi,
Here we use serial number of the computer and in the description,
it's the department name - phone extension. Since we only have IBM
workstation, we shouldn't
, September 27, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards
Hi,
Here we use serial number of the computer and in the description,
it's the department name - phone extension. Since we only have IBM
workstation, we shouldn't have two identical s/n...
René
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From
Or the serial number.
Greg
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From: Kelly Borndale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Workstation Naming Standards
Serial numbers tend to be a PITA, when troubleshooting. Stick with a
dept
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