Oh yeah...also if you are going to go the trouble you might just want to
implement some asset tracking software and keep track of it there. We
use an open source product called GLPI for our customers that find value
in asset tracking. And who knows, that might not only solve your
problem, but also provide some proactive feather/cap bullet points at
review time. Of course, you also have the same issue with the
description field...getting your guys to use it.
Bill
[email protected] wrote:
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...
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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!
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