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Realizing that naming a PC is old school, I would still like to know if it is possible to rename a Windows 10 device either as part of the AutoPilot process or later through Intune.

Another acceptable answer would be answering how to deal with randomly named machines in Azure AD, when machine names are left alone.

Nathan Hartley
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If you want to rename a Windows 10 device, you could create a device configuration profile with the custom OMA-URI setting. The steps are in the following:

  1. Open the Azure portal and navigate to Intune > Device configuration > Profiles;
  2. On the Devices configuration – Profiles blade, click Create profile to open the Create profile blade;
  3. On the Create profile blade, provide the following information and click Create;
    • Name: Provide a valid name;
    • Description: (Optional) Provide a description;
    • Platform: Select Windows 10 and later;
    • Profile type: Select Custom;
    • Settings: See Step 4.
  4. On the Custom OMA-URI Settings blade, provide the following information and click Add to open the Add row blade. On the Add row blade, provide the following information and click OK (and click OK in the Custom OMA-URI blade);
    • Name: Provide a valid name;
    • Description: (Optional) Provide a description;
    • OMA-URI: ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Accounts/Domain/ComputerName;
    • Data type: Select String;
    • Value: CLDCLN%SERIAL% (or use the other example of CLDCLN%RAND:6%).

Note: At some point in time this configuration will probably become available in the Azure portal without the requirement of creating a custom OMA-URI.

SunnySun
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Autopilot profile has an option to apply a computer name template, however the documentation mentions that it requires the latest Windows Insider.

If you can, I would try to check if it works with W10 1809 build.

Check OOBE settings here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/enrollment-autopilot#create-an-autopilot-deployment-profile

AzureAD doens't name the devices, most of the time it uses whatever the device has setup. I'm just not sure in regards to Android, probably it's Intune that names the device as it's always the same "Android"

Ralms
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