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I can't remember the version, but I remember it seemed like the PC would get renamed after the the image was pushed to it.  It seems with Windows 10 whenever I push an image, it keeps the default name and doesn't get named correctly even though the PC isn't new but had a new image pushed over top of it. 

Is there anyway that I can associate the MAC address with the hostname so that whenever the PC would get imaged it would get the name from the DB?  Or a script that could possibly do this for me so that we don't have to rename them manually afterwards and do it?

@Cyclones92 - you can use various tokens - maybe %SERIALNUMBER% would work for your purposes under apply system configuration task?

We are doing something similar (renaming to serial) via a script in automation because when we adopted CMS, the token for serial wasn't available yet.

more info:  https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO100007.html

Hi Cyclones92,

We use a number of methods with our customers, mostly as Sally has mentioned above. Using a task with a token to rename after the image is deployed.

Another method that may be of use would be to create a section in the registry for custom data and write the existing computer name to that before rebuilding. That data could then be inventoried by Altiris and you could use a task to put the computer name back to its original name after the rebuild.

Thanks