Windows Configuration Designer Device Name Variables

To automatically populate the UserName field with the PC name and domain when creating an APN Enterprise package using the Windows Configuration Designer tool, you can use a provisioning package with a custom variable. Here's how you can achieve this: Open the Windows Configuration Designer tool. Windows Configuration Designer WITHOUT Changing the Device Name? Background: We have an environment with about 100 laptops not currently joined to any on-prem or cloud AD that I want to Azure AD join and manage with InTune.

They all have existing names based on which department they're in, so I'd like to keep them. 1. Install Windows Configuration Designer from the Microsoft Store.

Launch the application and choose Provision desktop devices 2. Enter project details and click Finish 3. For the Set up device step, enter the device name.

Variables can be used as placeholders to dynamically populate values during the device provisioning process. By using variables, you can create provisioning packages that. Settings for adding a computer to Active Directory with Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer Adding a local Admin account If you disable the built-in Administrator account and create a custom local Admin, you can create the local account using WICD.

Go to Runtime settings, Accounts, Users. Type the name of the account and click Add. Hi There, I've created a Provisioning Package using Windows Configuration Designer and all is working well except it would be really handy if we could enter a Computer/Device Name at provisioning time rather than using a randomly generated one.

I remade a provisioning package with Set Up School PCs (my old one had a typo in the naming section and added an extra - to the name) and it applied to the device. Using built-in environmental variables are great, if you're creating new machine names in Azure, or you're using autopilot to aid in the setup and AAD enrollment process. Assigning provisioning packages to groups, and then pairing those groups with the autopilot feature is quite an efficient way to perform remote setups.

We want to automate setting the computer name through the OSD. Instead of getting a dialog box and having the tech add the computer we what to be able to use the serial number of the machine or the Mac address to by pass the 15 character computer name. I'm creating a ppkg and I need to join the domain on each computer but I don't want them to have the same name.

How do I configure the account settings (computer name specifically) to name each computer either numerically or by serial numbers. For example, should I use something like ComputerName (1,3) or something similar? Open Windows Configuration Designer: From either the Start menu or Start menu search, type Windows Configuration Designer, and then select the Windows Configuration Designer shortcut.

Select Provision desktop devices. Name your project and select Finish. The pages for desktop provisioning walk you through the following steps.