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Technology Deals Suncorp migrates 10,000 desktops to Windows XP not Vista
Technology Deals Suncorp migrates 10,000 desktops to Windows XP not Vista | Suncorp migrates 10,000 desktops to Windows XP not Vista |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 13 February 2007 | |
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Infosys migrated over 100 desktops a day, with a peak of 200 a day at some stages, including user’s accounts, data, applications and print queues. The migration program, executed across 277 locations at Suncorp, was completed in December 2006. It started with an initial assessment of the company’s existing environment including its various unsupported platforms. Paul Cameron, Suncorp’s General Manager for IT Infrastructure, described the team work involved in the project: “It has been a fantastic collaborative effort between Suncorp, Infosys and Microsoft. In just eight months we migrated over 10,000 desktops with very little interruption to our staff. They would simply go home one night running NT and when they came to work the next day they had XP on their machines and access to the new supporting infrastructure and business applications.” According to Infosys and Suncorp, benefits include: reduced IT support costs through standardising the operating environment from multiple NT domains to Active Directory. Costs have also been reduced by implementing remote management of the desktops using SMS 2003. Other benefits include greater reliability and performance by implementing a ‘locked down’ environment through Active Directory on XP desktops, which enables Suncorp to control the download and installation of non business applications. In addition, increased security using Active Directory’s enhanced security features such as group policies, organisation units and standardisation of desktop applications by significantly reducing the number of client based applications were cited as benefits of the migration.{moscomment}
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