How do you keep track of Shared company owned mobile devices?
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We have mobile development and testing in our company and I manage few mobile devices like iPad, mini, iPhone, android etc. Is there any effective way of keeping track of who currently has it?
When I was using spiceworks, I used to inform users to create a helpdesk ticket and manage it with that. When the user returns the device, I close the ticket.
Now since we've moved out of spiceworks (we are now part of a bigger group and they use another ticketing system), I am trying to find something simple, which we could use for managing these shared devices.
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@ambarishrh you could just change device name to whoever is using it if you were just using tickets before.
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How many devices are we talking?
A spreadsheet in Sharepoint might do the trick.
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@Hubtech What I would like to do is to setup a site where users can actually book the device and also track who has the device currently. Renaming might not work, as it doesnt stays with one user for long. It just keep changing. @scottalanmiller we have just around 10 devices, but everyday I could here people looking for the device and checking who has it currently!
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they could just check the spreadsheet in sharepoint
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@Hubtech We don't have Sharepoint yet, but planning to setup one. Sounds like a good idea
I have one of my old HP server which just got retired from production as we moved to a new server. I might be able to reinstall it and test! hmm something new to work on!
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@ambarishrh said:
@Hubtech What I would like to do is to setup a site where users can actually book the device and also track who has the device currently. Renaming might not work, as it doesnt stays with one user for long. It just keep changing. @scottalanmiller we have just around 10 devices, but everyday I could here people looking for the device and checking who has it currently!
Creating a site and users can actually login and log their device name is a great idea.
In our ISO practice we are using our logbook. sounds odd but it works great.
we use this logbook for asset and device management for our (USB Stick, Portable WIFI, and USB Externals) -
@ambarishrh said:
@Hubtech We don't have Sharepoint yet, but planning to setup one. Sounds like a good idea
I have one of my old HP server which just got retired from production as we moved to a new server. I might be able to reinstall it and test! hmm something new to work on!
You could just use Sharepoint Lists. You don't even need Excel. Sharepoint can expose SQL Server directly and it is super simple to use.
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@scottalanmiller Could you please advise if I could use 8GB RAM sever for SP 2013? As per MS docs it says it needs 24GB RAM.
Am starting to learn SP for a future project and would like to implement this resource booking system as part of my training as an initial project. I have 2 old DC HP servers with 8GB RAM each. Thinking about how well could I use these servers for my SP training and testing. -
It depends on your installation scenario
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx
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@IRJ Thanks! Thats helpful
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24GB of RAM is a ton. For a small site 8GB is more than enough.
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Planning to start it this weekend!
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Have fun
bit of a learning curve but an amazing tool.
