Re: OT: But only a little...
- From: "JEC" <johnc@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:12:32 -0500
Also, based on my experience, I would want the server loaded and running for
a least a week before delivery to the client.
"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Gordon wrote:
>
>> I need some serious honest feedback here.
>>
>> Is it possible to install a SBS2003 box and 20 pc's in a single day?
>>
>> Based on: 9:00am - 5:30pm work day and doing it correctly.
>>
>> And could you do this 5 days a week.
>>
>> Why am I asking? Sales person running an IT company says this is
>> possible.... I pass it across to the techies..
>>
>> I say it's not possible....
>
> I suppose it depends on what you mean by "doing it correctly".
>
> A full SBS installation is around half a day (of which most is just the
> SBS installation doing its' "thang"). Then you need to bring it up-to-date
> on patches, which would probably take another 2 hours (assuming decent
> bandwidth). You might get the patching done slightly quicker, if you've
> obtained all the relevant patches in advance.
>
> You could be installing Windows XP Pro from scratch on 10 clients in the
> meantime, as a full Windows install is about 1 hour, but again most of
> that time is Windows installing itself. They'd probably just about all be
> done by the time SBS was done installing. Note at this stage that none of
> them would have joined the domain.
>
> An alternative strategy for deploying the clients would be to add RIS to
> the SBS, and spend about 30 minutes loading the XP Pro CD (can't be OEM
> though) onto the SBS - each client could then be auto-deployed (subject to
> their nics being recognised OOB by XP Pro!). At this number of clients,
> RIS would certainly be something I'd want to use if possible.
>
> All the above would result in bare XP Pro machines being on the network
> and attached to the SBS, just about in time to go home. But there'd be no
> applications installed - no Office, no Accounting s/w, no Adobe Reader, no
> WinZip, nada.
>
> Deploying the core applications like Office and Adobe Reader via GPO would
> be the fastest method, but it still involves probably an hour to get this
> configured and going.
>
> So, in essence, if you know exactly what you're doing, and have it all
> carefully planned in advance, you might manage it in a day (though getting
> done by 17:30 would only be possible if the h/w was ready to work on at
> 09:00 - if you have to unpack & wire up, that alone could take 2-3 hours
> for 1 server + 20 clients!). But your margin for error would be zero.
>
> A much better plan would be to assume two days - day one for the server,
> day two for client setup. You could then be calmly unpacking and wiring up
> the clients on day one while the SBS was installing, and spend half the
> morning on day two preparing s/w for client deployment (eg building RIS
> images, setting up GPO) then be having a nice lunch with the customer
> while the clients mostly auto-deploy, before applying finishing touches in
> the afternoon.
>
> --
> Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
> ---------------------------------------
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