| Big corporations
"pained" by Win2k rollouts
A report from Giga
Information Group claims that large corporates
are taking six to nine months longer than
anticipated to move to Windows 2000. A poll
of around 100 major customers showed that
two thirds of corporations will hold off from
deploying W2K until 2001. The report states:
"Ask IS managers and executives for the first
word that comes to mind to describe a Windows
2000 migration, and you get the following
responses: Complex. Slow. Expensive. Lengthy.
Painful." Source: The Standard (August
14, 2000)
Compaq's
massive, methodical Windows 2000 migration
In this first installment of her three-part
series on Compaq's internal migration to Windows
2000, Elisabeth Putnam examines the six major
"threads" guiding the project, and describes
how Tim Benson, worldwide program manager
for Windows 2000 at Compaq, is methodically
overseeing the massive migration. Source:
Windows 2000 Advantage (Jan 2001)
Experienced
Microsoft consultant stresses importance of
Windows 2000 lab work
Successful Windows 2000 implementations require
a phased development approach that begins
in the lab, evolves into a pilot and finally
matures as a production system. Source: Windows
2000 Advantage (Dec.13 1999)
Analysts:
Lockdown Vital to Win 2k Value Managing
desktops can help companies attain their ROI
in less than a year
The real total cost-of-ownership benefits
of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 Professional
won't come automatically, analysts warn. To
reap the full rewards, they say, information
technology departments must move to a managed
desktop environment - in other words, lock
down end users' PCs Source: ComputerWorld
(May 8, 2000)
Gartner
Group's Windows 2000 Professional Migration
Model
A Gartner Group study about predicted
migration costs to Windows 2000 Professional.
This paper shows that actual migration costs
to most customers will be considerably lower.
Source: Microsoft.com (Feb 2000)
Giga
Group Report: Windows 2000: Deployment Best
Practices
While respondents to its poll of IT professionals
rated Windows 2000 an average of two times
to three times more reliable than prior versions
of the desktop and server operating systems,
Giga states "it is absolutely crucial that
corporate IT departments learn the technical
vagaries of the Windows 2000 platform and
follow best deployment practices to the letter."
This report summarizes those practices. Source:
Microsoft.com (Feb 2000)
Government
users tread different migration path to Windows
2000
A recent interview with two IT professionals
from the office of Minnesota's Hennepin County,
in which Minneapolis is located, reveals that
implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 in a government
agency can be tricky © not because of the
operating system, but because government agencies
do things differently than their private sector
counterparts. Source: Windows 2000 Advantage
(March 26, 2001)
Hardware,
application compatibility are critical Windows
2000 planning and implementation issues
Stride Rite is a good example of a company
that has successfully migrated to Windows
2000 after carefully dealing with a wide range
of hardware and application compatibility
issues. Source: Windows 2000 Advantage
(March 26, 2001)
IT Managers
find advantages in Windows 2000
Consolidating on the Operating System
improves performance. Source: Information
Week (April 17, 2000)
Management
Strategies: Windows 2000 migration
Planning is key to success, and each IT department
must figure out its own needs and specialties.
Source: Network World Fusion (Oct 30,
2000)
Microsoft Active Directory
Problems Linger
Fundamental design problems with Microsoft's
Active Directory (AD) that will affect early
adopters of Windows 2000 (W2K), will not be
fixed until next year, a senior analyst has
warned. Ed Thompson, an analyst at Gartner,
said the design problems, which involve network
performance and the stability of directory
services when deployed to over 300 sites,
are not fixed by the recent release of Service
Pack 1 for W2K.
Migration
migraines
Moving from Windows NT domains to Active Directory
is never simple, even with the four products
we tested that are supposed to ease the pain.
Source: Network World Fusion (Jan 2001)
Migrating
to Windows 2000
Find out why you should deploy Windows 2000
Server first, and Windows 2000 Professional
second. Source: Windows & .NET Magazine
(Jan 2000)
No
rush to open Windows 2000
Most companies will let the year 2000
come to a close without inviting the much-ballyhooed
Windows 2000 operating system through their
corporate doors. Virtually everyone praises
the powerful new OS, but the cost, complexity
of migration, and lack of immediate need are
causing most companies to say Windows 2000
can wait until well into 2001. Source: EarthWeb
(Dec 12, 2000)
OS
Rollout hinge on user training
All to often, when a company introduces new
technology for its users, training is simply
tacked on as an afterthought. But unless your
users are properly trained first, don't expect
Microsoft Windows 2000 or any other sophisticated
technology to work miracles. Source:
InfoWorld
Payback
Time: How companies are finding ROI for Windows
2000
Migrating from Windows NT 4.0 and Windows
95/98 to Windows 2000 is no walk in the park.
The upgrade is complicated and can be expensive.
Very expensive. A recent ENT survey
of sites making or planning to make the upgrade
finds that two-thirds expect to pay more than
$50,000 for the migration. A quarter of surveyed
IT executives anticipate spending $500,000
or more. Across the board, respondents expect
to devote a quarter of their IT budgets to
the migration effort. Source: ENT Online
(Feb 28, 2001)
Planning
the Migration - Reseller should plot strategies
carefully before taking the plunge
The migration to Windows 2000 will require
three things: planning, planning and more
planning. Major infrastructure changes in
Windows 2000, namely the Active Directory
and its advanced security features, will require
in many cases sweeping organizational changes
and cooperation within companies as well as
months of detailed planning to ensure a smooth
migration. Source: Information Week
(October 1999)
Running
the Numbers for Windows 2000's TCO
Recent GartnerGroup and Giga Information Group
studies about Windows 2000's (Win2K's) total
cost of ownership (TCO) have caused an uproar.
GartnerGroup says Win2K is too expensive;
Giga says Win2K is worth the cost. The reasons
behind these disparate claims lie in the studies.
Windows 2000 Magazine reviews both reports
and speaks with the analysts involved in the
details of the studies. Source: Windows
& .NET Magazine (Feb 2000)
Sizing
up service providers for aid in planning and
deploying Windows 2000
Choosing between hardware OEMs, integrators
and traditional VARs. Source: ZDNet
(April 18, 2000)
Survey
reveals keys to cheaper Win 2000 migration
Enterprise customers that have well-established
procedures for managing their desktops should
find moving to Windows 2000 less expensive
and less complex than those that have not,
according to a new study. Source: Network
World (Jan 31 2000)
The
Road to Win2k
Win2K may be the enterprise OS of choice .
. . eventually. For now, analyze the business
case for migrating and test, test, test. Source:
ComputerWorld (Feb 2000)
Users
Cite Windows 2000 Challenges, Pitfalls and
Opportunities
When three Compaq users sit down to discuss
Windows 2000, what do they say? They are turned
on by the possibilities, but daunted by the
work involved. Everybody agrees planning is
a must. They also agree the migration is a
major project with widespread ramifications
for their businesses. Read this customer roundtable
if you want to know what users really think
about Windows 2000. Source: Windows 2000
Advantage (July 10, 2000)
Windows
2000 Migration A Gradual Process
Enterprises planning to adopt Windows 2000
will do so gradually, typically taking six
to 12 months to conduct top-down planning
and to ensure a smooth migration to Active
Directory and other new features. In many
cases, IT departments are setting up a central
Windows 2000 infrastructure and leaving implementation
timing and other details to individual units.
Source: PlaneIT (Feb 9, 2001)
Windows
2000 Migration is easier than you think
Migrations to Windows 2000 have come to resemble
technical rites of passage. Approximately
60% of the searchWin2000 Career Center Survey
respondents told us that the migration was
easy, reporting only a few problems. Only
a quarter of them called the passage "somewhat
difficult." Source: TechTarget.com
(Jan 5, 2001)
Windows 2000:
A 6 Step Migration Plan
Time to cut through the hype, roll up your
sleeves and get to work. Our six-step plan
will help prepare you for the Win 2K era.
Source: InternetWeek Online (Jan 26,
2000)
Win2000
Who should upgrade?
Was Windows 2000 worth the wait? In a word,
yes, but different types of users will have
very different reasons for upgrading. And
some people shouldn't upgrade at all. Here
are the top findings from PC Labs Source:
ZDNet (Jan 31,2000)
Windows
2000: And the Survey says..
Analysts have been lobbing grenades at Windows
2000 (Win2K) for the past year. GartnerGroup
summed up the major points of Win2K criticism,
based its arguments on the analysis of Win2K's
total cost of ownership (TCO) and a calculation
of the Return on Investment (ROI) that an
enterprise can expect for Win2K. At the heart
of the GartnerGroup analysis were the imposing
administrative requirements of deploying Win2K.
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine
(Jan 13, 2000)
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