Originally Posted by wolf_bluejay (Post 411104)

Wow, that is a lot of machines! It is rare for me to run into anyone that deals with the number of machines as me :biggrin:, let alone more. I guess this is where I get to rub our linux setup in a bit. -- Last week, I pushed out about 200 software updates to 3000 machines at over 40 sites, and that was during morning coffee. I always love to jest fellow IT people over that one :bounce:

Originally Posted by Aquattro (Post 411116)

We actually have a huge deployment schedule with our SMS team, all patches and upgrades ae deployed via SMS.

Originally Posted by Aquattro (Post 411116)

Well ,hmm, we're rolling out our April rollout to 35k + machines right now. While I eat lunch :) We manage several hundred sites all across the province. We actually have a huge deployment schedule with our SMS team, all patches and upgrades ae deployed via SMS. We run Windows because our client asked for Windows (currently rolling out about 3000 Vista PCs/mo). I like Linux, but really haven't used it much the last few years. Now if you want to go on about GPOs, that's my specialty lately :)

Originally Posted by Snaz (Post 411123)

I hate WSUS so much. I am sorting out patches this week for about 80 clients over 2 sites and it will probably take me all afternoon to set the deadlines correctly.

Originally Posted by Aquattro (Post 410933)

And you actually can drop them from 12 feet :)

Originally Posted by SeaShell (Post 411271)

Yeah.... I've conducted some testing in that regard.... But not from 12', that would require a ladder and I'd have to explain to my boss why I climbed a ladder just to drop the Toughbook.

Originally Posted by wolf_bluejay (Post 411164)

Dare I even ask who the client is? I'm assuming some crown corp or other government agency.

Well, I guess that is what happens when you get over a certain size. I just hate :twised: getting those wannabe computer guys that say silly things like "Oh, you just install it on each machine by putting the CD in, and clicking next,next,next,finish on each machine" and trying to explain why that does work on a large scale.
We acutally run diskless clients (fat clients) for everything now. It really makes backups much easier to do, as every machines gets a full nightly backup every night, going back a full year+.
I avoid GPO, PDC's and most of the windows based stuff now, as it is just too much of a pain. On the plus side, I no longer have to deal with any more Novell netware either :redface:

Sorry for the hijack.

Originally Posted by Aquattro (Post 411285)

My actual project was to source tough laptops, so they had to go through all the tests I could perform. The larger CF29 and CF30's are not too bad, but the CF 19!! I can't even fit my fingers on the keys :)