[Technical] Off Topic - Windows XP and Serv Pack 2 Incompatibility

[Kevin Feely]

Hi Con,
Deploying?  - well thats the trick!
We just bought 65 new machines and the deployment took 2 technicians 
about 15 days, but this included relocating about 30 others to make way 
- a domino effect sort of.
Also spread throughout 2 campuses - not just 25 in 2 adjacent rooms - 
pods, offices, libraries, etc.
Plus notebook rollover and normal issues.
Also took 2 weeks to solve a vb.net problem which Kvork (I could kiss 
you) had the answer for.

But once their in there and you have an image and maintenance routine 
could be supported by your FT technician the extra workload i would 
estimate (assume 3 year onsite warranty) around 2 to 4 hrs per week. 
Approx 120 hours suppport for a year at $40 per hour = about $4800 ish
Depending on hostility of environment


regards
Kevin Feely


Con Zymaris wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:05:05PM +1000, Kevin Feely wrote:
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>>For 50 machines say P4's with 512Mb, HDD, 17"CRT, CD etc - budget 
>>models  mostly  ship std with XP home, but as a govt dept this can be  
>>replaced with xppro for no extra cost you only need any XP licence.
>>All other ms apps are covered by the det - ms contract so i would think 
>>$800 to $950 should cover it (depending on extras dvd's or dvd writers 
>>etc). Optima have been good for us.
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>Sounds about right.
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>What cost would deploying these be? What estimates do you have of yearly 
>support for these 50 PCs?
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