Intune Naming Convention

[petben]

Hello, what do you do to name Intune devices in IT rooms, they dont have a 'primary user', and a naming template %serial% or something from the autopilot profile is not as useful as it could be. So, do you manually add a friendly name somewhere, or maybe leave the naming part out of the Autopilot profile (so it prompts presumably?). 

 

How about staff 1-1 laptops? I was thinking to use a 'SchoolName%serial%' autopilot template and then manually add the primary user once they are enrolled.

[Roberto]

Why not just use the %serial% type template then log serial to room in whatever hardware database you have? Much easier to move a machine in the event of a fault if you don't have to fiddle around with renaming the device in Windows/AD/EntraID too...

[DWilson1997]

We name all devices manually e.g. ABC-P-S-CR101

 

ABC - School Identifier Code

P - Pupil Device

S - Shared Device (1 for 1:1)

CR1 - Room Code (Could be 6TH for Sixth Form, MUS for Music etc)

01 - Device number in that room.

 

This allows us to split down specific rooms into dynamic groups automatically for software deployment. 

 

Edited October 7, 2025 by DWilson1997