For the money, it pays for itself times over each year in administration time saved for me. But, you prolly already knew that.
J Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 12:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to I have always loved Hyena From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues. Subject: RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to We put them in the description field in AD, as you mentioned. If we are troubleshooting "general use" computers where we need to know who's logged into a particular machine, I use Hyena. For names, we use geographical_location-position-number (Phila-IT-01, etc, etc). Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 11:53 AM 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited ~ 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
