We have 9 people to take care of around 3000 users with over 11,000 computers. We are a school system of 17 high schools and 5 offsite locations. At one point we were down to four people. Our schools are a state school system so they are spread across the state. The 9 of us do it all. Network, servers, computer support, etc. I do most of the switch work since I am the "Cisco guy" of our crew. So those of you who think your struggling with a hundred users or computers, count yourselves lucky!
SMS, RDP and VNC = three sanity saving tools!
We normally order desktops in bulk of 500+ at a time. We changed over to HP from Dell due to a cost savings in addition to better hardware. We had around 400 Dell Optiplex 270's and 280's ordered. 80% of them are goign on the third round of motherboards due to 1. popped capaciters, 2. leaking capaciters or 3. racing cpu fans due to bad motherboards.
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We have 9 people to take care of around 3000 users with over 11,000 computers. We are a school system of 17 high schools and 5 offsite locations. At one point we were down to four people. Our schools are a state school system so they are spread across the state. The 9 of us do it all. Network, servers, computer support, etc. I do most of the switch work since I am the "Cisco guy" of our crew. So those of you who think your struggling with a hundred users or computers, count yourselves lucky! SMS, RDP and VNC = three sanity saving tools!
We normally order desktops in bulk of 500+ at a time. We changed over to HP from Dell due to a cost savings in addition to better hardware. We had around 400 Dell Optiplex 270's and 280's ordered. 80% of them are goign on the third round of motherboards due to 1. popped capaciters, 2. leaking capaciters or 3. racing cpu fans due to bad motherboards.
Why not teach the older software along side the FOSS counterpart?
I was wondering if anyone was going to mention pandora.com