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Author:  AlunD [ Wed May 20, 2009 10:54 am ]
Post subject:  XP roll out
Quote:
This is an interesting and challenging role to work for a large central government department based in Central London. As Project Manager you will assist the Project Workstream Manager in replacing existing services (including Back Office IT functions and business applications).

Specific activities will include;

* Plan, manage and deliver XP upgrade stream of work (replacement on equivalent basis)
* Manage the production of required products for review by Project team
* Plan, monitor, control and deliver assigned work


And yes I just checked it is to roll out win XP as the new desk top :shock:
Author:  saspro [ Wed May 20, 2009 10:55 am ]
Post subject:  Re: XP roll out
Ooohh, that could be fun.
Author:  big_D [ Wed May 20, 2009 11:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: XP roll out
Sounds familiar. I worked on one site, which rolled out Windows 95 in 2001! They are probably still umming and ahhing over Windows 2000 or XP :lol:
Author:  AlunD [ Wed May 20, 2009 11:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: XP roll out
big_D wrote:
Sounds familiar. I worked on one site, which rolled out Windows 95 in 2001! They are probably still umming and ahhing over Windows 2000 or XP :lol:

Shudders
Author:  Fogmeister [ Wed May 20, 2009 11:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: XP roll out
Just last year I finished rolling out XP to the company depots.

Some of the machines were still running Windows 95 :lol:

We're now looking at upgrading to Windows 7 :D
Author:  forquare1 [ Wed May 20, 2009 12:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: XP roll out
We run our Sun Ray servers on all the latest software without testing (latest OS + latest Sun Ray server version) and we get hit more times than we care to mention...Our users know that this is a the case, and they know they have the company alternative (stable release of the OS and an older version of the Sun Ray software), the company alternative is slow and old, ours is fast and new...

If the company upgraded as often as we did, people would have to log off once every two weeks, when they logged back on something might not work, etc...

I see how upgrading effects users on a monthly basis, I can fully understand why companies take so long to test before they upgrade.
Author:  John_Vella [ Wed May 20, 2009 12:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: XP roll out
saspro wrote:
Ooohh, that could be fun.


I spen a few years doing XP rollouts for various companies and it usually is lots of fun. :)
Author:  AlunD [ Wed May 20, 2009 12:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: XP roll out
forquare1 wrote:
I see how upgrading effects users on a monthly basis, I can fully understand why companies take so long to test before they upgrade.


Point taken but this has nothing to do with testing, believe me. It's down to a combination of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and "What would the benefit be?" and the "impact on other systems". I know of one central government department that hasn't upgraded OS or browser for years because they were too scared ( I can understand why to ) to upgrade their EDRMS. Which couldn't be made to work on anything newer that their current OS and browser.
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