Don't disagree, but where did the 4 hours per machine come from? Stu
From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FTE swag? 500+ PC's. 400 at the home office and 100 others strewn all over God's creation. How much FTE hours would you think it would take to maintain 97%+ of them up to date with AV and patching? We have both of those centralized (McAfee ePO and Shavlik NetChk Protect. My SWAG is both are 95% effective leaving 25 systems needing attention and it take about out 4hrs/machine to fix 'em up, so 50hrs/mo just to keep the wheels on. This is above/beyond figuring out what can be ignored due to churn of employee turnover, people on PTO, etc. Does that sound reasonable? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
