From: Richard B. 

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.

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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