OT: Thin Clients, Anybody know anything |
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OT: Thin Clients, Anybody know anything |
Qarl |
Jan 20 2005, 11:13 PM
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Shriveled member Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,233 Joined: 8-February 03 From: Florida Member No.: 271 Region Association: None |
Looking to upgrade one of our offices. It has 30 PCs that are about 5 years old.
Everybody runs the same crap. Microsoft office Adobe Acrobat Internet Explorer Terminal Emulaton programs Anti-virus software. Looking at thin-clients as a replacement solution (less IT management of each PC). How does software licensing work? I know you have to have the terminal server with enough client access licenses for each machine? What if I wanted to run Microsoft Office? How does licensing work? Do you buy one license (since you only really running one copy?), or do you have to have some sort of user license of each terminal running it? Same question for other applications. Anybody with any real world experience? Thanks. |
Rockaria |
Jan 21 2005, 11:46 AM
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ZippidyDoDah... Group: Members Posts: 817 Joined: 2-May 03 From: Southwest, USA Member No.: 645 Region Association: None |
I am an IT admin for a university library and I have over 500 identical computers to maintain. Here is what I do and its easy.
No matter the computer, its nice that they are all the same. Set one up perfectly. Since my users will not install or change software I can lock them down. I use a really cool piece of software called DeepFreeze. This allows me to lock in the computer so that every time it boots it deletes all crap, temp files, and everything. It basically sets the computer to a perfect state at reboot. So no matter how messed up the user leaves it it boots perfectly. The software installs a partition for the MyDocuments folder so the user can save stuff if needed. Then all the apps use "login to" a 2003 Server system to share databases and to have another location to save stuff. But that is not nessessary for a small cluster, you could use one of the machines to do peer-to-peer file sharing if needed. Then I use the Ghost software to make a bootable DVD that can quickly clone the machine as many times as I need. YES, all 500 have the exact same install codes and numbers, BUT I have 500 registered "Site License" software agreements with each of my software vendors on file. The rest is simple. I have reduced IT and computer problem to almost nothing. The system works perfectly and in 5 years it is still going strong with only small mechanical things to fix one or twice a month. I hope this helps a little, |
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