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Anyone rolling out Windows 2000 Pro?

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by mjackman 1 view

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I'm curious - we're considering rolling out Windows 2000 Pro for company workstations, laptops - what do you think? How's the installation process, and how do you handle switching over computers currently running NT 4.0 or 98? Any really bad problems lurking out there? Thanks in advance!

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by aesh

I'm testing Windows 2000 for our org, I have found that it has taken our team a few weeks to sort out bugs on the network that were running fine with 9x but wont work with 2000. Also we are going to have to replace a number of older machines to get the OS to run at an acceptable speed

by aspasa

If you can roll out in a definite 'suit and tie/corporate/anal' environment then that increases your chances of success... but watch out for the media content/fun based users... there are driver issues that manufacturers - like end users - are not hasty in jumping into the 2000 fray. must be a case of thrice bitten twice shy - or something!

However... what a great networking and domain participation O/S...

keep it simple and you'll be OK - maybe :}

by wburdine

I have a NT4.0server and 10 workstations that were running NT4. Now I have 1/2 and 1/2. I got all my apps running including a DOS app which is the companies main bread and butter. It has been more stable and reliable than any Win9x or NT!
My answer is GO FOR IT, but get 2 or 3 out to users that have to understand they could be inturupted as you test different apps or configurations. Once you have a great usable solid workstation, use a program called sysprep on it then image the drive withghost 6.5. Sysprep will remove all drivers and user settings and rotate the SID.
good luck

by jc2436

I have a Compaq Armada 700 laptop w/128K. Windows 2000 is more stable compared to WinNt sp5 running in a 1,200 pc WinNT network. No blue screens, but I still have to boot my pc at least twice a week. You need to get Outlook2000 but the rest of Office97 will work.

Windows 2000 likes to have lots of memory and a permanent swap file twice as large as real memory. I recommend creating a new NTFS partition and doing a clean install. I would not upgrade a Win98 or WinNt partition, especially if you have uninstalled any applications that made registry changes. Win2K can boot from any drive letter but so Win98 or WinNt could stay as C:

by msmfasil

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