Wow, is your desktop gold plated?
From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:34 PM
To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [mssms] Upgrade to SCCM
I disagree, the only way I would not do an in place upgrade is if I needed to also replace my hardware. I upgraded SMS 2003 to SCCM where I used to work and it was a piece of cake.
BTW... we had 3000 machines there and the hardware for my central site server was $25,000. I don't know what kind of server you can get for $6000.00, my desktop cost double that.
From: "Miller, Todd" <todd-miller@uiowa.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 12:26 PM
To: mssms@lists.myITforum.com
Subject: RE: [spam?####] [mssms] Upgrade to SCCM
My opinion is that there are way too many new features in SCCM that need to be freshly configured including patching and OS deployment that in place upgrade is not viable.
What is your risk tolerance? What would happen to your organization if key features of SMS or even the whole thing were not available for 2-4 weeks? Would people go crazy or would you have some time to get everything working again? I think it is a very real possibility that it could take significant time to get patching and OS Deployment working again when doing an in place upgrade from SMS to SCCM. If people lost the ability to remote control systems for 2 or 3 days or deploy new systems for a couple weeks, would you get roasted on a fire?
You should be able to buy a new server capable of running SCCM on a site your size for around $6000 - $9000. For my organization, this expense of new hardware was worth the reduced risk. Plus, my older SMS hardware was due for replacement in a year.
I am running on SMS 2003 right now, and it is the same server I had upgraded from SMS 2.0 in 2005. I have made lots of misguided configuration decisions that in hindsight that I would not make today. I am seeing SCCM 2007 as a way to start fresh, taking everything I've learned about SMS and client management in general over the last 10 years and build the new site with that in mind. . Doing it this way, we lose historical data, but that information is secondary to having the operational data and systems available with as small a blip as possible. I plan on taking 4-6 months to get 2007 configured the way I want and then on some day in the Spring after testing and testing and testing, I am going to move all the clients over the course of a day or two. That's my current plan anyway.
From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of Mike Meyers
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 11:21
To: mssms@lists.myITforum.com
Subject: [spam?####] [mssms] Upgrade to SCCM
Finally they are letting us upgrade to SCCM. Anyone have a Pros and Cons to whether a side by side is better or worse than in place. We have a single site, do desktop deployment, and have hundreds of objects to move. We are currently SMS2003 SP1. 3000 Clients
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