kevbaz Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 Just taken delivery of 96 new pc's + monitors, im staying on tonight and will be locked in so that i can get the image made and ready, tomorrow im training for my yomp doing 15 miles, then sunday were in all day from 8am to take out the existing 96 and to put in the new 96...
tech_guy Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 Eek you must be bonkers. I'd wait until the hols with that many!
tmcd35 Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 even half term....96, all at once? That's three holidays worth of work in one day!
sippo Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 If I was going to be in over the weekend I'd get it in writing that I would be paid OT.
Craggus2000 Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 even half term....96, all at once? That's three holidays worth of work in one day! That's nothing, I did nearly 300 in 5 weeks over the summer, and that included fixing problems.
kevbaz Posted October 9, 2009 Author Posted October 9, 2009 The decision was made that the current ict suites pc's are holding back the students and are having a negative effect on their coursework, which is due in 3 weeks time hence the need for change asap, were getting paid overtime thats not an issue here. all good fun and challenging 85% formatted...
mossj Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 That's nothing, I did nearly 300 in 5 weeks over the summer, and that included fixing problems. Thats nothing, we reimage 300 plus desktops/laptops in 1 conficker riden evening (server switch was mad)
kevbaz Posted October 9, 2009 Author Posted October 9, 2009 still here, only one left in the building... cs4 really does take ages to install... bunch of kids sat outside the main entrance drinking...
EduTech Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 Oh the joys of being the only one left on site! i have been there a few times.. it's so creepy on your own.. yet so fun! Hope you get them all done! James.
Abaddon Posted October 9, 2009 Posted October 9, 2009 Ah I remember all that... then we bought Citrix Provisioning server.. one build, and they all work from the same network image, no ghosting or imaging, just a nice network boot.. deeply joyous IT Dept!
kevbaz Posted October 9, 2009 Author Posted October 9, 2009 Almost done, about to gather the image with fog, heading home shortly!!
kevbaz Posted October 10, 2009 Author Posted October 10, 2009 back in today.... something knocked out the lan card.. could i get it working?? could i eck!! rebuilding it again today!!
kevbaz Posted October 10, 2009 Author Posted October 10, 2009 locked in yes but i have a master key, cant leave the external doors unlocked as anyone could walk in...
kevbaz Posted October 12, 2009 Author Posted October 12, 2009 after 20+ hours of hard labour were done, just a few to finish off imaging
Friez Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 We've done similar but during school hours! In our case we pre-prepared images and set up everything serverside as much as we could in advance (Including imaging machines in advance!), then three of us blitzed two rooms in the space of 2 spare periods. Made it JUST in time for the next lesson!!
bossman Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 We did a whole suite within 6 hours (32 clients) from start to finish (unwrapping to building stations onto network) manic but had to be done during a working day. :)
kevbaz Posted October 12, 2009 Author Posted October 12, 2009 We did a whole suite within 6 hours (32 clients) from start to finish (unwrapping to building stations onto network) manic but had to be done during a working day. :) We did 96 in 8 hours yesterday, friday and sat was time i spent bulding the image (30gb!)
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