Intune - assign device name to DEP devices

[Alawil]

Hi

 

Is it possible to pre-set a device name to DEP enrolled devices?

 

We do this today in Jamf school but don’t seem to be able to do it in intune meaning we have to manually rename the device from iPad to its new name after it registers.

 

Ideally we would like to do this under Enrol devices/Apple enrolment/enrolment program tokens/token_name. Then under devices where we see all their serial numbers from ASM set the device name.

 

Any suggestions?

[jslate1980]

Hi

 

In Devices | iOS/iPad > iOS/iPad enrollment > Enrollment program tokens > Microsoft Endpoint Manager > Manage - Profiles

 

Click on the profile > Select properties > there is Device name template. If you add {{SERIAL}} to the naming convention it will add the serial to the name.

 

Jon

[Alawil]

Thanks for the reply. I dont think that will work for us, imagine we have an upstairs and downstairs set, I would like to be able to assign a name iPad-upstairs-01 to 30 then similar for upstairs. I then have a dynamic group for upstairs and downstairs with each getting different apps. To complicate things I then have a teacher set.

[Disease]

You can create Device Categories and assign iPads to each category, then create security group with a dynamic query that adds devices in that category to the group and then assign specific apps to that group.

 

So Device Categories - Block 1 upstairs - Block 1 downstairs

 

Groups - Block 1 Upstairs - Block 1 Downstairs ( which is dynamically filled by device category).

 

Once you have these set up any iPads you add to a category will automatically belong to the group and get the apps assigned to that group.

[Alawil]

Thanks for the pointer, i read this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/enrollment/device-group-mapping

 

I understand how to create Categories, Create dynamic groups for each category and how to assign devices to the category.

 

But...

 

How can i assign a category to the device from the Enrollment section?

 

I basically want to have it so that when i reset a device and re-enrol it i already have the S/N->catagory/name mapped such that everything is automatic.