Project Description
A Windows service for domain-joined computers to synchronise the local computer description with the computer's description field in the Active Directory.
Once installed, SyncDesc will periodically check the computer’s Active Directory account for changes to the Description attribute, and will update the local computer description (visible in the computer properties page) to match. This value is often audited
by network inventory tools such as Lansweeper and
Spiceworks, so it can be useful to have it set from a centrally-managed database like Active Directory.
Requirements
SyncDesc should work on any computer using Windows 2000 or greater that has .NET Framework 2.0 installed. The computer will also need to be domain-joined if you want it to do anything useful. It will run on non-domain computers, but all it will do is log
warnings to the event log about not being able to contact a domain.
Development
SyncDesc is developed using
Visual Basic 2010 Express. The installer is authored using the freeware edition of
Advanced Installer, with some additions made using
InstEd.