my office upgraded from a 4.0 server to a 2000 server last week - workstations are a mix of 98 and xp machines - i got to play helper during the move since i take care of the workstations - ran into a nasty problem migrating the XP machines, under the old system, a router assigned the ip's - but also assigned the dns information from our ISP - somehow some of that info had gotten written into the registry of the XP machines, which would not stay on the network when rebooted - we also found a bunch of other things that were duct-taped together electronically which had to be redone - this network had been worked on by 3 different vendors at different times - ended up taking about 24 hours to get the switchover done - our other office, which had recently been redone after a total server crash, took 3 hours
we got nifty new servers - those dell 600s - 2.4 p4, 1 gig of ram - the inhouse databases run just a little bit faster than under the old p3 500/128 mb
I ended up ordering one of those dell servers to learn 2000 networking - p4 / 2.4 /533fsb 40 GB HD - etc. 327 shipped AR - gotta love quarterly profit statements - this stuff is so cheap now
some of that stuff can really give hou a headyache!
