Colorado State University

To standardize the naming of institutionally/CNS owned devices within CNSIT, we will utilize the following standardized naming conventions.  We are limited to 15 characters in the Windows-verse so we are forced to stick to this limit across all devices for consistency.

One should be able to decipher the following information when looking at the name of a device using these conventions:

Owning Lab/Group/Location: truncated PI/Group/Location name, Up to 6 characters

Date purchased: YYMM, year and month, 4 characters

Device Type: 3 characters

Extra Designation: If device matches another up to this point, increment up

Template

NNNNNNYYMMTTTXX

Example

MEDFOR1802DTW02 This is for the 2^nd Windows Desktop computer in the Medford lab, purchased in February of 2018.

Device Type Table