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I'm planning to setup new company, with new Active Directory domain for 100-4000 users. I've chosen domain name and now I am wondering about possible computer naming convention. Company is going to have standardized computers from HP.

Is going by Serial Number of machine a good option? Or do you see risks here by exposing machine serial number to the world when user moves away? What would be recommended naming convention assuming we want to go for brandless naming (such as domain name is brand less).

MadBoy
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This is probably going to be closed as "too broad" or "opinion-based," but...

I don't know of any risks involved in exposing the serial number. One of my previous places of employment used "PC-[Serial]" or "LT-[Serial]," and then grouped them by department in the desktop management software and labeled them with the user's name there.

What I don't recommend is naming it after the user ("FRED-PC"). If the machine isn't reimaged and/or renamed, this can get confusing (Fred got promoted and got a new PC, so now Mary Ann uses FRED-PC and Fred uses FRED-NEW-PC-OF-HOTNESS).

Have you asked the desktop support team what they would find least confusing?

Katherine Villyard
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