I have a situation that I hope someone can clarify for me. I have the network manager wanting us to change our naming convention for the user’s PCs because he says they have issues with AD that using a unique PC ID (which we use now) makes it much more difficult. If we go with a PC name based on the User ID, that stays the same across all PCs that user might use, then we run into duplicate name conflicts every time we have a major rollout or re-image a PC (which we do almost daily). He says the issues affect Active Directory, antivirus, SMS, and NetMeeting, and various daily and weekly issues in the network side of it. In all my training and experience I was under the distinct impression that using a PC name instead of a user ID to assign rights in an OU was the last resort and probably the worst practice. Am I wrong? We don’t have any general use PCs such as Internet kiosks. All PCs are specifically assigned to a user.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Barry