[THIN] Re: XP-embedded
- From: "James Lilly" <LillyJ@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:19:54 -0400
I have a couple of clients running the HP XPe thin clients, and they
love them....they work well enough that I haven't had to mess with them
much.
As for Altiris, I understand about learning and add another management
platform, but in my opinion (I've seen/used SMS, Zen, Ghost, blah, blah,
blah) Altiris is the best I have worked with. Certainly beats anything
any other thin client vendor uses for system management.
The medical clinic my wife works at uses them as well, and I must
admit, they cut down on the number of times she called me to ask me to
fit something because she didn't want to call her own IT department.
:)
I have not looked at doing the PC lock-down method, maybe because
around here we tend to run them until the hardware fails. :)
James
>>> steve.quinnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 9/29/2005 6:37 AM >>>
Anyone out there using XP-embedded devices? I'm just looking at some
HP
thin clients and they look like more trouble than they're worth. We'd
have to introduce Altiris into our environment as well as add these
Xpe
devices to our anti-virus and patching solutions which will take some
time. If we were rolling out across the whole enterprise I might see
the
point but for a small number of these devices which is all we would be
using it doesn't exactly look worthwhile introducing another OS to
manage. I think I'll just turn a few old PC's into locked-down
thin-clients. Anyone else been down a similar road or have a different
take on Win XP-e?
Steve Quinnell
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