On Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:23:39 GMT, rhuhman
<rhuhman@no-mx.forums.microfocus.com> wrote:
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>I have spent a large amount of time scripting and enhancing my imaging
>process to speed it up as well as ensure it is efficient and less prone
>to errors. This was for Windows 7 Pro. The school system is now looking
>at making the move over to Windows 10 Education/Enterprise over the next
>year or so. I can move a lot of my process over to Windows 10,
>especially my scripting but feel it is time to start looking at other
>options. I have been looking at ENGL's option and actually requested a
>quote from them last week. I wanted to see if anyone here could provide
>any additional information on this type of move they went through and if
>they feel the ENGL purchase for ZCM Imaging is worth fighting for. I am
>hoping my current Supt. will see the value in it and sign off on it. I
>like a lot of what I see in the video's they have posted but without
>actually having the software loaded and play with it I am stuck. In my
>area, middle of Kansas, I am a lot further along with this type of
>process then the other schools, so have limited available references to
>how others are doing their imaging and deployments.
>
>Currently this is my process for our computers.
>1. Each summer all student laptops are re-imaged. That is around 500 to
>600 devices depending on the class sizes
>I have two low level tech's doing the work and what I feel should
>take about 3 weeks to complete is actually taking them both June and
>July to complete.
>2. I am attempting to keep my base image thin and updated with MS
>updates on a monthly basis. I currently have two Images. One universal
>and one Dell (the dell is for driver issues I have yet to resolve)
>3. I have started getting requests for Hybrid/2in1 tablet/laptop systems
>and already deployed Surface 3 tablets. They have been a manual process
>right now but am wanting to get this handled now before it is a major
>issues and takes up more time.
>4. I am hoping that the image process continues to take less time
>overall. I have gone from a 4 to 6 hour image start to finish. To a hour
>and a half roughly. The move to SSD's helped with a lot of this.
>Streamlining the image process in my scripts also helped.
>
>Any advice in general on how to improve or just change the image process
>to make things function better?
>Is a move to ENGL as an enhancement something you now can't live without
>and something I can prove over time was worth the expense for the
>district?
>
>Thanks for any advice.
>
>RichardRichard,
Just my opinion... I'm not in education. I'm a one person IT
department for a business. I didn't have the time to dig into
scripting like you have done, so I had multiple images - 1 for each
type of machine that we have. A real pain. I switched to ENGL and it
has definitely been worth it. I was able to switch to a single image.
And it makes it so much easier to keep things up to date. They have
great tech support! I wouldn't want to go back to ZCM without ENGL
Imaging Toolkit.
Ken
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