How do you keep track of Shared company owned mobile devices?

A Former User

they could just check the spreadsheet in sharepoint

Ambarishrh

@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!

Joy

@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)

scottalanmiller

@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.

Ambarishrh

@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.

IRJ

It depends on your installation scenario

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx

Ambarishrh

@IRJ Thanks! Thats helpful

scottalanmiller

24GB of RAM is a ton. For a small site 8GB is more than enough.

Ambarishrh

Planning to start it this weekend!

scottalanmiller

Have fun bit of a learning curve but an amazing tool.