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by michael.burgess

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I have a windows domain and am wanting to upgrade over 100 windows98 machines to windows 2000.

I am not on active directory.

What is the best way to do this...
I would like to deploy the OS over the network 5 or more PC's at a time.

Can you point me in the direction of documentation.. or any ideas you might have..

THANKS

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by pgm554

Use an imaging product.(PowerQuest,Ghost)
Do NOT run inplace upgrades.You are asking for trouble if you do.

by bg_27

As long as these PC's are all the exact same hardware configuration, imaging will work, i worked for an educational institue and we regularly had to image 2000 laptops and this was by far the fastest way to do it, you will also need to use a tool from microsoft called SYSPREP, it can be found on microsoft.com it helps with the deployment and licensing of windows.

by michael.burgess

I do have different hardware configurations but i have say 50 of the same hard config and 50 of something else so I could benefit from this...

Here is my question....

If I created an image of one pc and upgrade to 2000 what about all of the users data and documents and files that they need xferred over to the new pc... Doesnt this method erase everything and start from scratch

by lcampbell

You could run an In Place Upgrade on each machine from a network share (or multiple share points)
Although this would require you to do more 'leg work' it would make it simpler to salvage your users current data.

by pgm554

Although you can do inplace upgrades from W98 to 2000,there are very good reasons not to do it and M$ advises not to do it.

I can gurantee it will take 3 to 5 times as long to do it as an inplace upgrade process.

Have them copy the files they want to keep (favorites, email,etc)out to a share.
Copy them backover after the imaging upgrades.

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