Client Management Suite

Hi everyone,

Just wondering how everyone renames their computers once imaged.

At the moment the computers I deploy the image on are named the same as the master image. I want to give them all specific names or for them to keep the names they already had before deploying the image. So for now I am disjoining them all from the domain, renaming them to their original name and joining back to the domain. This is not ideal when you have 400 + PCs! 

Any ideas? I'm using 7.1

Oour computer names are based on the macaddress.  We take the facility code and the last 6 charecters of the mac address.  When minisetup runs, it gives the computer a generic name WIN-*randomcharecters*.  It gets joined to the domain with that name.  When the Altiris agent fires off, the first task is a vb script that renames the computer based on the mac address.

In my case, the image is sysprepped, and the autounattend.xml has the entry <ComputerName>@compName</ComputerName>

This means that the computername as known in the console is substituted on build.

So for rebuilds, the name will stay the same.

For new builds, I run a script, that updates the name in the database before deploying the image, unsupported, as it updates the database tables directly.

Phil