Re: XP Upgrade project ideas needed
From: Chad A. Gross [SBS MVP] (chad.gross_at_laytonflower.nospam.com)
Date: 12/11/04
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:37:01 -0600
Besides the health of the machines, it depends on the amount of software
that needs to be installed, and where all of the data lives. On one hand,
if the machines are healthy, you have a wide variety of 3rd party apps, and
the entire user profile is stored on their desktop - I'd suggest an in-place
upgrade. On the other extreme, if the PCs aren't so healthy (or health is
unknown), you have a relatively low number of 3rd party apps and you're
using Folder Redirection for user profiles, I'd go with Ghost.
We just had to install about 20 PCs w/ XP Pro for a client - and since they
were all identical hardware, I used Ghost. If you haven't done a roll-out
like this before, make sure you sysprep your master before you clone. FWIW,
when I did this last week - it only took 5 minutes for Ghost to actually
clone my master drive (fully patched XP Pro + some 3rd party apps like
Acrobat Reader, etc.). Add another 10 minutes or so to swap the target
drive, boot, restart the Ghost process & restore the removed drive in its
case . . .
-- Chad A. Gross - SBS MVP SBS ROCKS! www.msmvps.com/cgross www.gosbs.org Cris Hanna (SBS-MVP) wrote: > Are you very comfortable with Ghost and already have it? Yeah, save > yourself some time and ghost up the "10" > as a clean install. > > The others are probably just individual cases > > >> Gavin Steiner wrote: >>> I have a project booked to upgrade 20 W2k Workstations to XP SP2 on >>> an SBS2000 domain. >>> >>> Half are identical machines with various software installed on each, >>> and the others are all different machines that obviously couldn't be >>> CLONED as easily. >>> >>> I wanted to get others opinions on: >>> >>> 1) Should we wipe and load, or are in place upgrades from W2k to XP >>> generally flawless >> >> Depends. If the hardware & device drivers are fairly new, and you >> know the machines are clean (i.e., free of spyware/viruses), it's >> usually pretty painless. You can always uninstall SP2 if you have >> problems with it. >>> >>> 2) Is it worth imaging on computer and pushing out to the other 9 >>> using ghost, or should they just be straight installs from a server >>> point >> >> For just that small number of PCs, I wouldn't bother, but it's up to >> you. >>> >>> 3) Any other ideas to make this simpler? >>> >>> -- >>> Gavin Steiner >>> SBS Consultant - Canada
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