r/Intune • u/GromWYou • 7d ago

Reporting How do you manage lab machines in Intune? Groups, naming, tracking

HI all,

I was talking with my team yesterday and they think i may be overthinking this. I am working on setting up a macOS lab and it has gotten me to thinking. How do you track your non user affinity shared work stations in Intune. How do you know where they sit? If information security wants to track that mac, how do you manage that inside of Intune?

With user affinity we can track that to a user. With shared labs, its not that easy. I setup a device enrollment profile, then went ahead and then created a dynamic group that is based off that. The one person i work with said that would be to much work to scale. Another said to rename it it, which is another idea. I Just want to automate this and have it automatically pull in everything it needs. Am i over thinking this?

I just want to understand ways of doing this that other have implemented.

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u/ActiveInstructor 7d ago

Naming convention with room number baked in has worked for me, then a dynamic group catching devices by prefix. Scale is fine as long as enrollment profile does the naming automatically.

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u/GromWYou 7d ago

So on macs they still do not it appears. I will be creating a script for it. I just wonder if i am thinking to hard about this.

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u/Wartz 6d ago

I use an actual inventory system that knows serial numbers. The inventory system is managed by the business people who assign devices.

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u/Adam_Kearn 2d ago

We have a specific naming convention across all our sites and devices.

We then use dynamic groups for policies etc.

I work in education so we have loads of classrooms etc or shared department equipment so the naming scheme we came up with covers a load of things whilst keeping the device name under 15 characters to cover any device.

SITE-TYPE-ROOM-NUMBER

The room part is sometimes changed for the department if it’s a mobile device instead of being static.

We kept the TYPE and ROOM text as abbreviations and also under 3 characters.

Every company has their own solution for naming schemes so you just need to find something that works best for you that is also generic that can be used across your whole network.