Thanks! Thinking of dedicating a white board to the mapping.
I actually have gone registry hunting. I thought of the "Description" field, and if our help desk folks would remember to put that in and update it, it might be best. What I'd really like is a nice big orange button. Push it, and the machine starts beeping... -- richard Bill Humphries <[email protected]> 06/07/2011 03:08 PM Please respond to "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> To "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Press this button if the "To" is a fax number. Enter in the fax number like 123-456-7890. cc Subject Re: How to find a workstation 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! > -- > Richard D. McClary > Jr Infrastructure Architect, Information Technology Group > *ASPCA^® * > 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 > Urbana, IL 61802 > > [email protected] > > P: 217-337-9761 > C: 217-417-1182 > F: 217-337-9761 > _www.aspca.org_ <http://www.aspca.org/> > > > The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, > is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to > Animals^® (ASPCA^® ) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) > named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential > information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you > are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or > use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is > strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please > immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the > original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. > > > ~ 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] > <mailto:[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 ~ 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
