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As I know many of you manage a lot of the equipment and things that go through your office I was wondering if anyone could assist. Currently at my company we do an awful job of managing everything from software to machines we hand out to users. I suggested to one of my managers that we should really review our Asset management, well they decided to play a sick joke and put me in charge of it. Does anyone know of any resources that I could leverage to at least get started on this. Books or anything at all would be useful. I know the first problem always starts with getting the people to do the right thing but we are a small team and I am sure bad habits can be changed. As an example of a bad process (I think), we currently name our end-user machines after the person receiving it. Ie. BOS-KLESLIE, we run in to trouble with this in many areas but its just something I think is not a good way of doing things, for various reasons. 1 Major one is If we have to deploy a new machine to them (many/most remotely) we have to name the second machine BOS-KLESLIE2 then retrieve the old machine remove it from the domain and rename the newly deployed. Well, when I came to this company we have machine names like BOS-KLESLIE5. Quite frustrating when you don't know if 1-5 have returned. Any suggestions at all would be useful. We currently have software to do this (Track-IT) but if people have good suggestions I am open to those as well. TIA. Kyle
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