We have computers that are renamed every time a new employee shows up. This causes a lot of work unnecessary work for the IT department. Now while it isn't always true 100% of the time that each user MUST use the same computer all the time, it's good for us to know which machine a user is on in general.
So when using Active Directory to determine which machine a user is on most of the time, what property should I set?
I've looked and in computers and as far as I can tell, there is Owner
and Description
.
Description can only be searched for using the AD module for Powershell, and while Owner
can be searched using the Find Computers
dialog I don't actually know where to set it in the properties of a computer in Active Directory Users and Computers
; I also don't know what other implications there might be for using the Owner
property, or if it can be set using Powershell
for a particular machine.
So what is the correct way to figure out what user is "assigned" to a machine without renaming the machines every time an employee is replaced?