I also learned some valuable lessons in project planning and execution... they had a few guys who sat for 1.5 years to plan the rollout, working with suppliers to plan deliveries of the hardware etc.
When the time came we rolled out all the several hundred locations in just over 3 months, which included assembling and basic configuration of the servers at base, shipping the servers and then migrating data onsite from the old UNIX server (mailboxes, home directories etc).
We only had two issues, one server had gotten the hard disk cables disconnected during transport, easy fix had the technician on site been Compaq certified (had to get shipped back to base and out again), and another had a weird hardware error which caused the server to freeze when scrolling large log files in Notepad (replaced the server and all was good). Beyond that it went flawless.
magicalhippo|2 years ago
I also learned some valuable lessons in project planning and execution... they had a few guys who sat for 1.5 years to plan the rollout, working with suppliers to plan deliveries of the hardware etc.
When the time came we rolled out all the several hundred locations in just over 3 months, which included assembling and basic configuration of the servers at base, shipping the servers and then migrating data onsite from the old UNIX server (mailboxes, home directories etc).
We only had two issues, one server had gotten the hard disk cables disconnected during transport, easy fix had the technician on site been Compaq certified (had to get shipped back to base and out again), and another had a weird hardware error which caused the server to freeze when scrolling large log files in Notepad (replaced the server and all was good). Beyond that it went flawless.