[Casper] School District Smart Groups

[Matthew Butch]

Yeah we do that as well, but ours has building name, then Mac or PC,  
then T for teacher and no T for student, then the asset tag. IE:

BdgMacT01222

Makes it very easy to pick teacher vs student, as well as the building  
they are in.

-Matt

On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Adam Shepard wrote:

> Each of our schools has their own prefix and asset tag as well.
> CS-123456 would be an example. The problem is that we have that same
> naming convention for all our computers, whether it is a desktop or
> laptop, teacher or student machine. I can easily do smart groups for
> each site and that works well for things that I need to install at a
> site on all their computers but we have some specific software for
> teachers and some for students.
>
> As we have 9 schools the ultimate goal would be to have a group for
> students at each site and a group for teachers giving us a total of 18
> groups.
>
> On Apr 16, 2009, at 7:23 PM, Mark Hughes wrote:
>
>> we have about 6000 laptops that we organize using smart groups based
>> on computer name.  Each high school has a specific prefix for their
>> building
>> and the name contains their asset number that each laptop is assgned
>> ie AAA_KCK01234
>> and the group is made up as Computer Name like AAA.
>>
>> Mark Hughes
>>
>> Mark Hughes, Apple Technician
>> TIS Department, KCKPS USD500
>> Cell 913-449-7791
>> mahughe at kckps.org
>>>>> Adam Shepard <adamshep07 at aol.com> 04/16/09 9:13 PM >>>
>> I work for a school district with ~3500 computers. There isn't a
>> specific model machine that we have for all our staff and our all
>> student computers so that makes creating smart groups difficult. I
>> wanted to see what other school districts are doing doing to create
>> groups either smart or static. Eventually we plan to re-image all of
>> our student machines so they will pass through Casper Imaging in the
>> near future but long term and for policy I would like to have groups.
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>> Adam Shepard
>> Creighton School District
>> Web Developer / System Administrator
>> [Office 602-381-6000][Cell 602-319-8935]
>
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Matthew Butch
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Penn Manor School District
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