Extended Google Device Writeback options

I see this is already an FAQ, but I wanted to just post about it since I missed when the permissions to write back got changed. Pre-pandemic, all of our district’s Chrome Devices had their own Cart OU in Google. Then the pandemic hit and all of them got dumped into everywhere. There is no easy way to bulk update device locations in the Google Admin Console, so doing it through the expanded write back options in IIQ has been a huge help for us. It does require quite a lot of setup on the admin side, but it’s mostly a set it and forget it setup. When we first adopted IIQ we were not able to add filters to writeback, it was only Location writes to OU, all or nothing. The addition of filters is awesome. What we are doing here is creating a “Room” with the cart name and Room number for each Cart we have, then I am going in and mapping those back to the proper OU’s in Google to get our inventory back in order. Using the Room filter under the writeback, I can just add all of the rooms and then copy/paste in the OU’s needed. It has been awesome not having to have our site agents move the Chromebooks around 1 by 1, I just wanted to share that with everyone in case they missed the writeback updates like I did.