Adding Chromebook Asset ID during enterprise enrollment

[Seth Dimbert]

This may be news only to me, but I just discovered that you can set a Chromebook's AssetID during the Enrollment process so that the value is tied to the device in your GSuite Admin. (Previously, we were enrolling the devices and then manually adding the Asset ID after the fact.)

Unintuitively, this is a setting you make for the enrolling user(s), not the device OUs.

It's in Devices > Chrome > Settings > User & Browser Settings:

Seth Dimbert, M.S.Ed. Director of Technology, Hillel Yeshiva 732.493.9300 x236 | sdim...@hillelyeshiva.org www.hillelyeshiva.org

Seth Dimbert, M.S.Ed. Director of Technology, Hillel Yeshiva 732.493.9300 x236 | sdim...@hillelyeshiva.org www.hillelyeshiva.org

[Benjamin Wexler]

Something we've actually implemented here at Yeshivah of Flatbush, is that we have a google sheet with the chrome device properties ( serialNumber/OU/annotatedLocation//annotatedAssetId/annotatedUser/Notes) and with a backend Google Apps Script and add-on menu we can update 100s of chromebooks within a matter of minutes. This saves the step of having to enter this info during enrollment. 

If you want to see in action I will work on a screen record of the process. 

[Seth Dimbert]

We use a similar method, but I pay for a Sheets add-on called Chromebook Getter which enables the bulk upload/download process. If you pay for the pro version, you get the same capability for users which is also nice.

We use it less and less, though, for two reasons.

1. We found that, while using the sheet, we essentially had two copies of the "truth," one in the sheet and one in the Admin panel. We didn't always remember to upload after every trivial change and this lead to all kinds of small (but annoying) inconsistencies. Plus, every once in a while, you can make a small error and, since it's a bulk tool, that small error can become a doozy. (Like that time I deprovisioned 200 Chrome devices...)
2. We are becoming more and more comfortable using GAM for most of these management tasks. It's free and more capable (but, admittedly, much harder to learn to use.)

-SD

Seth Dimbert, M.S.Ed. Director of Technology, Hillel Yeshiva 732.493.9300 x236 | sdim...@hillelyeshiva.org www.hillelyeshiva.org

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