> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Adam Levin > > Our company has standard builds for clients and servers, so restoring a > laptop is a simple matter of laying down the standard company build again
Yeah, we do that too. But surely you don't think that's all there is to it, do you? Nobody uses matlab? Labview? Not everybody gets a license of visio and project, do they? Every user has a different set of licensed software, based on their job requirements and preferences ... Not to mention ... Some of them have dropbox, skype, firefox, chrome, Cygwin (that's a big one), octave ... and so on. Some people prefer VNC, and others X tunneling, and others Exceed OnDemand. Some Xterm, some Putty. Cygwin alone takes like an hour to install, even from a local media server. Matlab and labview require administrator intervention to install, due to license tracking and online activation. Even starting from a standard issue system build, it takes several hours to reinstall all the applications they need, and configure all their personal preferences as they wish. Re-download the entire mailbox. So there's a considerable gain to have an available whole-system image, to use whenever a hard drive goes bad, or they get infected with a virus, or for any reason the whole system is accidentally or intentionally nuked. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
