Estimating Time for xp to Vista upgrade

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Hi,
We have to upgrade about 100 XP OEM XP professional workstations that are in
a domain environment to Vista Business. Most of the workstations have a
'standard' mix of office suite software. A few may have some local data. Does
anyone know about how long to upgrade an 'average workstation'' so we can
budget time and resources for doing the 100.
 
drosen said:
Hi,
We have to upgrade about 100 XP OEM XP professional workstations that are
in
a domain environment to Vista Business. Most of the workstations have a
'standard' mix of office suite software. A few may have some local data.
Does
anyone know about how long to upgrade an 'average workstation'' so we can
budget time and resources for doing the 100.
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If you read the horror stories in some of the other Vista newsgroups, it'll
take weeks/per unit.

Depending on the age of the XP machines you're upgrading, you might be
better off ust replacing them with machines built specificaly for Vista.
The you won't have to worry about hunting down drivers and such.

Unless you're under some mandate to upgrade, just replace the machines as
they actually need replacing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
 
Hi,
We have to upgrade about 100 XP OEM XP professional workstations that are in
a domain environment to Vista Business. Most of the workstations have a
'standard' mix of office suite software. A few may have some local data. Does
anyone know about how long to upgrade an 'average workstation'' so we can
budget time and resources for doing the 100.
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( On another subject)

David:

have you ever heard of a book called

" SCUBA Diving The Wrecks and Shores of Long Island "?
 
Unless you have a Specific Business reason to upgrade to Vista I'd
leave well enough alone.

Quite a few major corporations have looked Vista over and passed on
it.

If your client is insistent on getting Vista, suggest one box per site
so they can really beat on it.

In addition to a " clean " install, Vista requires extra memory, a
dual or quad core processor

and apparently an upgraded Video card just to do what XP does now.

Pioneers are easily spotted because they have the arrows sticking out
of their back.

- Wait for 7
 
An upgrade takes one and a half to three hours on a typical machine. Given
that yours will not be loaded down with all kinds of consumer bric-a-brac
(those kind can take four hours sometimes) I should think all should go
easily in a two to three hour time frame. Run one in a lab environment and
I suspect you will have a pretty good idea of what to expect.
 
Hi,
Yes, I wrote that book SCUBA Diving the wrecks and Shores of Long Island NY.
You saw my posting on Microsoft re: VISTA...
Who are you? Don't recognize the email address....


Thanks,

David Rosenthal
 
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