It should be easy and simple to rename a Windows 10 device, right? Well with Microsoft Intune it is – You can rename a device in seconds directly from the Intune portal with tokens that can be used to add device-specific values to the name – {{serialnumber}} or {{rand:x}}.
An example could be WINDOWS10-{{serialnumber}} and then the output will look like this “WINDOWS10-R8EX5WEL” but in this scenario we use {{rand:x}} token/value for a generic number creation.
My environment:
- Windows 10 1909 (20H1) Insider
- Oracle Virtual box for device hosting.
Prerequisites:
- Azure AD / Tenant
- User with admin right to the Tenant for example Global admin or Intune service administrator.
- Enrolled Windows 10 device.
Supported devices for renaming:
- Corporate-owned Windows
- iOS supervised
- Corporate-owned MacOS 10
Note: This feature doesn’t currently support renaming hybrid Azure AD Windows devices.
See this video to learn how to rename a Windows 10 device in Intune.
Or skip this video and follow the traditional blog post down below.
Login to the Intune Portal -> https://devicemanagement.microsoft.com
- Click Devices:
- Click All devices and Browse to the device that needs to be renamed:
- Click on …More and the click Rename device:
- Give the Windows 10 device a new name (I use {{rand:x) options for a generic set of number after Windows10-XX) and click Rename:
- Now a pending restart is showing (Just wait couple of minutes):
- The Windows 10 device shows a massages that a reboot is on it way:
- In the meantime under the system view you can see the upcoming new computer name:
- After a short while Windows will prompt the user a massage that says You`re about to be signed out within 2 minutes. (Restart):
- Back at the Intune portal and under the specific device it is now possible after a “short while” (5-10 min.) to see the new device name:
Happy deployment.