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   There are volume licenses other than Software Assurance.  See =
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/default.mspx.

   If the issue is with the user profile you can copy or backup and =
restore that.  How well that works depends on the application.  Any =
application that supports roaming profiles should work.  This leads to =
the second idea.  Can you use roaming profiles?  You may even be able to =
enable them temporarily just for the duration of the migration.  I've =
never tried the latter myself so can't comment on the effectiveness.

Rich

  "Richard B."  wrote in message =
news:bv1sr291g77re8b2eshgk17ksp0uulkpkn{at}4ax.com...
  On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:14:55 -0800, "Rich"  wrote:

  >   I would recommend reinstalling any applications and migrating your =
data,
  >
  >   If you have applications that are coupled to the old hardware the =
OS is not a factor.
  >
  >Rich

  That's pretty much what we have to do and with even a few machines I
  think you can see how time-consuming this is.

  Here's the exact scenario.  We just ordered some new PCs to replace
  some older ones, they are not all that old, 3GHz machines used for
  CAD. =20

  Since the OS is tied to the hardware I don't see anyway to image from
  one machine to the other since the OS license is tied to each PC even
  though both boxes are running XP Pro.  It takes a long time to move
  applications, particularly some of the Autodesk apps which are tied to
  the individuals profile.  Just trying to make things go faster, one
  reason I did not get more replacement PCs this time around is because
  we just don't have enough time to do this and the rest of the work.

  I guess I'd need a license (Software Assurance?) to cover the number
  of PCs we have and then try to get new machines without an OS so we
  could image them?

  - Richard

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Richard

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