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My condolences regarding using Zen. We are stuck using here and it is an absolute resource hog. Part of that is most likely poor scricpting by our Zen Master, but most of it is simply the crappiness that is Novell Engineering.
Our new CIO should hopefully relieve us of all Novell (Client, Zen and Groupwise) software by the end of the year.
@JonM33, Yes. 13.
Our Arts and Design have 6. Each one may be in 1 lab, or up to 3. Just so they can have all their digital art production tools, and another lab have different software for Fashion design, etc etc.
School of engineering have their image, loaded with solidworks and altium. Stuff that only they need.
So Autodesk is only going to certain people, as is CS5, and all the other expensive tools go to whomever.
I dont work with the licensing costs, but a ballpark figure is around $1.5M per year.
Its all organised simply in folders.
I currently have a network share, with 14 folders. One for each image, plus an archive of previous years. Each folder then has subfolders (Gold, Beta, Beta2, Platinum) which contain the actual ghost image files. Sometimes more for backups... of course. Our platinums are the sysprepped images ready to be deployed to the labs.
@PhreePhly:
I've never used Zen.
I've disliked Novell since I was a lad in highschool, probably due to your reasons too.
But we have more certified Novell guys than we do Microsoft guys, so for the imaging and deployment way, this is how its going to go.
We have a couple Linux servers, but everything else is all Microsoft.