# Archiving Assets

**URL:** <https://community.syncromsp.com/t/archiving-assets/412>\
**Category:** Staff Picks\
**Tags:** staff-picks\
**Created:** [October 13, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.syncromsp.com/t/archiving-assets/412 "2021-10-13T20:25:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![anon83914637](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@anon83914637](https://community.syncromsp.com/u/anon83914637)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.syncromsp.com/t/archiving-assets/412/22 "2024-03-22T15:10:46Z")

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Whats funny is there are 2 other threads over this as well xD so more than a dozen.

I think they are moving towards more use of the tag system… but it is taking a long time to do so…

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**Author:** ![Andy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/syncro/user_avatar/community.syncromsp.com/andy/32/2588_2.png) [@Andy](https://community.syncromsp.com/u/Andy)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.syncromsp.com/t/archiving-assets/412/23 "2024-03-22T15:19:56Z")

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We’re looking to do proper asset archiving likely this year. I don’t have more detailed ETAs on that, though.

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**Author:** ![jeff17](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/syncro/user_avatar/community.syncromsp.com/jeff17/32/3726_2.png) [@jeff17](https://community.syncromsp.com/u/jeff17)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.syncromsp.com/t/archiving-assets/412/24 "2024-11-05T17:50:54Z")

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What is a simple work around to archive an asset? Create a new policy under the customer called “archived assets”? Rename the asset, ‘Retired 10-2024’?  
Or screen shot the asset specs, file save to OneDrive under the client, then delete the asset?

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**Author:** ![sifox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sifox](https://community.syncromsp.com/u/sifox)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 6:01am UTC](https://community.syncromsp.com/t/archiving-assets/412/25 "2024-12-14T06:01:28Z")

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I do what you said about creating a new policy folder. I rename them by appending Archived if a former client, Retired if a current client but we don’t expect to see it online again, or Inactive if it’s on a shelf for an indefinite period of time.

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**Author:** ![tom13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@tom13](https://community.syncromsp.com/u/tom13)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.syncromsp.com/t/archiving-assets/412/26 "2025-01-02T13:57:37Z")

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This would be a great feature. Staff often will start investigating a computer that is within a retired policy folder as it does not show up as retired in the Assets & RMM tab. Our work around is to adjust its friendly name with an appended Retired, but it is not ideal.

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**Author:** ![rick.cassel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/syncro/user_avatar/community.syncromsp.com/rick.cassel/32/568_2.png) [@rick.cassel](https://community.syncromsp.com/u/rick.cassel)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.syncromsp.com/t/archiving-assets/412/27 "2025-03-31T21:31:57Z")

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I created a customer called Retired Assets. To retire an asset, I change the device name to X + previous client short name + machine name. Example X-SEMW-WKS01, then change the customer to Retired Assets so they no longer show up under that client’s name and all history is preserved.

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