Question for the Fabyak and any other system admins

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » March 1st, 2006, 12:55

Are you using Active Directory, or a Windows NT domain?

Do you have to roll out the Oracle Client onto the PC's, or just the server?

These things will change my mind on what to recommend

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » March 1st, 2006, 13:00

Switch to Redhat and kickstart all the machines, Redhat supports Oracle and there's no need for a virus scanner. Also you can control everything remotely.

That is if your users are happy not to use Outlook

amblin · Post by **amblin** » March 1st, 2006, 13:29

Post by **Dog Pants** » March 1st, 2006, 13:32

We use Microsoft SMS for software distribution, as well as other admin guff. Might be a bit overkill for 12 workstations though.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » March 1st, 2006, 16:10

In that case, create a group in the Active Directory applied to the 12 PC's, and deploy the software using either Kix scripts or Microsoft SMS.

As Dog Pants said, Microsoft SMS is a bit overkill, and to be honest I wouldn't go to all that bother over creating kix scripts and so on, I would just install them manually

/helpful