If I never have to deal with hospital IT systems again

[DeusExMachina]

Thankfully several of our key systems don't work on the MAC OS. Whew. Otherwise we'd be doing some switching over too probably.

Ipad's are driving us nuts enough.

We have two Macs on our staff network. The OSX Lion one will not play right with Active Directory. The Snow Leopard one is fine.

Apple has managed to un-fix something they fixed in 2005 or so. Good job.

The best part? "There is no help desk at Apple that deals with AD integration problems", that's a direct quote from the Apple business support guy. He sent me 4 white papers instead.

My interest in Apple has been a nice bell curve over the years. Peaked when they switched to Intel. Sharp decline ever since.

[cfortune]

We gave our help desk guy a lab where he has his own isolated PXE server and network. He can PXE boot from an image to 24 laptops at once.

[gnihcraes]

We gave our help desk guy a lab where he has his own isolated PXE server and network. He can PXE boot from an image to 24 laptops at once.

Yep, hard to do for 100 locations state wide. Drop ship from vendor to those locations. Too much hassle trying to PXE 1000 systems in one building and then re-distribute. $$ in time and labor to get them back out the door to those locations sucks. unbox, rebox, ship or deliver. Physical storage becomes an issue too. Hard to secure 1000 laptops and 1000 desktops in one location.

Easier to download an image over night and then you can do them locally without the drain on the network. (one system at a time while doing other daily functions)

[TFOGGER]

Software QA Motto: It'll compile...Ship it!