Option 2 would be the best. A big advantage of this option is the ability to use the RIS technology for upgrading to Win2KPro. Of course, there are other advantages as well: greater ability to secure the system, keep Bill's company going, etc...
For most well managed corporations with 2500 workstations, it is common to see a desktop hardware lifecycle of 3 years. This means a 33% replacement per year. Therefore, the option available to upgrade the NT4 workstations are: 1. Retain lifecycle of workstation. Cycle to WIN2KPro in three years. 2. Shorten the Lifecycle to 1 or 2 years. This would speed up the migration to Win2KPro. There are variations to the options above. Some variations are to keep the 3 year lifecycle, but to make exceptions for some special cases. Special case lists are hard to compile because everybody seems to think they are a special case...but it is done in all companies I have seen. Workstation TCO is much higher then Server TCO because of their greater numbers. The cost associated with touching/modifying a global desktop image is costly. (If you have never done the exercise...do it now...and you will be amazed at the cost)With this in mind, most companies try to minimize how many changes they make to their global desktop. When changes are to be done, the well managed corporation typically couple these changes with other changes with other optional changes that have been waiting. If a company can syncronize desktop changes with events like periodic hardware replacements then they probably have realized an optimal TCO for desktops. Cheers, Leonard Lee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of BY > Sent: April 2, 2002 11:41 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: PDC & W2K Professional - NT4 Policy vs W2K Group Policy > > > Dear All, > > Current domain = NT4 Single Domain environment (1 PDC & 3 BDC > with SP5) > ; 1 DNS Server (NT4 with SP6A) > Current SOE = 2,500 x NT Workstation 4.0 with SP5 > > What would be the easiest & smoothest approach I should > consider for W2K > migration project? > > 1) Upgrade all workstations to Windows 2K Professional first ; or > > 2) Upgrade all NT4 domain controllers to be Windows 2K domain > controller > with AD aware first? > > If I choose to upgrade all workstations first, would my NT4 domain's > Policy still stay as effective? And, would W2K Group Policy > still retain > my NT4 Domain's Policy settings when I upgrade the NT4 domain > controllers to W2K domain controller later? > > Thanks in advanced. > > B Y > > > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
