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How do you handle loaners?

  • October 27, 2026
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cthonus
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We plan to set aside a couple of macs as loaner devices in case someone forgets their device at home (hybrid workplace), how are you folks implementing loaners devices? Do you wipe between users? Have people just log in via Entra without wiping the device? Just trying to see what is standard. For lost or stolen devices we would replace immediately.

Back when I was a Windows sysadmin we just had dedicated loaners people would log into via their Entra creds, we were on OneDrive so once they logged in their files would be pulled down. We have one shared mac currently which, imo is becoming a bit of a management pain point so I am curious about how to make this smoother.

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dletkeman
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  • October 27, 2026

I’m in K-12 and our loaner computers are typically wiped during the summer break.  Otherwise as many users as needed are allowed to log in.  If it becomes an issue someone will put in a ticket and we will act on it at that time.