60 machines? I would just use excel or visio or some graphics app to
map out workstation locations. Or add the full-time user name or
location in the description field in AD.
Quick and Dirty Way: If you have admin priviledges on the machines,
browse machine \\machine\c$ and see what users have profiles and
identify full-time user. You could also probably do this by opening
registry remotely and taking a peak.
Bill
[email protected] wrote:
Greetings!
We have been directed to have all our workstations named with a
department code, a location (State) code, and the Dell (mostly)
service tag number...
There is a script which will tell us, in AD, who the last person is to
have logged into that machine.
PROBLEM:
1. In the summer, we have like 18 student workers. They must find an
unoccupied desk. If the "owner" of that desk comes in, they must
move. They have no assigned desk. (A single user may need to move 3
times during a single shift.)
2. SO, in my phone system console, or in my VIPRE console, I see that
the machine named [gibberish] has had some sort of issue with the VoIP
system, or that there is a malware infection (and we may need to boot
into SafeMode to do a re-scan).
3. We see a temp worker was the last person to log into that
workstation...
HOW or WHAT might we use so that we can figure out which of the 60 or
so desks actually has the machine name in question?
Those who had us change our naming convention (and they have more
users than to we) are in a situation where desktop systems are not
shared. We do not have this luxury. The other location is finally
beginning to understand our complaints.
SO, is there some sort of utility, etc that would enable us to find
the machine "[gibberish]", where "Fred Temp" was the last person
logged in? I'd settle for a button that would make that machine start
beeping, if nothing else.
Thanks!
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