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Converting Hundreds of 2000 pro to XP pro

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ecpos

Flightless Bird
Good day,

I'm in the Point of Sale field. I have well over 200 pos terminals with 2000 pro on them. I'm told that when MS stops updating it, that they all will not be PCI Compliant and they must be upgraded. Some have 2000 pro product keys and others don't. I took over this area from an out of business dealer.

Any ideas as to the best, fastest and most affordable way to accomplish this?

Any help will be appreciated.

ecpos
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
Now you know why the other dealer went out of business: His customers were
too cheap to invest in regular hardware upgrades.

Tip: Start looking for another job, quick!


undisclosed wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I'm in the Point of Sale field. I have well over 200 pos terminals
> with 2000 pro on them. I'm told that when MS stops updating it, that
> they all will not be PCI Compliant and they must be upgraded. Some have
> 2000 pro product keys and others don't. I took over this area from an
> out of business dealer.
>
> Any ideas as to the best, fastest and most affordable way to accomplish
> this?
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> ecpos
 
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Peter Foldes

Flightless Bird
You are in a mess. Cannot be done when some have keys and some not. You need the
installs to be uniform with the matching license
What is possible with GPO is to remove all the W2K installs and then use the GPO to
install your XP across the network

--
Peter

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<undisclosed> wrote in message
news:6092e4309e1b67d86de4b1a85da745f2@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> Good day,
>
> I'm in the Point of Sale field. I have well over 200 pos terminals
> with 2000 pro on them. I'm told that when MS stops updating it, that
> they all will not be PCI Compliant and they must be upgraded. Some have
> 2000 pro product keys and others don't. I took over this area from an
> out of business dealer.
>
> Any ideas as to the best, fastest and most affordable way to accomplish
> this?
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> ecpos
>
>
> --
> ecpos
 
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ecpos

Flightless Bird
Thanks for the "tip" PA Bear. Also forgot to mention that all these computers are in 65-70 restaurants ranging from 2 terminals to 27 terminals.

Is there an open ended xp product that I can buy to go in and manually install on all these computers? I know POS but the upper end OS stuff I'm not.

Thanks again

ecpos
 
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Tom Willett

Flightless Bird
:
: Is there an open ended xp product that I can buy to go in and manually
: install on all these computers? I know POS but the upper end OS stuff
: I'm not.

Windows XP is no longer available for purchase.
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
What Tom said.

I'm very familiar with such POS & restaurant operations, which explains my
100% gray/white hair & beard at 40 years of age. <wink>


undisclosed wrote:
> Thanks for the "tip" PA Bear. Also forgot to mention that all these
> computers are in 65-70 restaurants ranging from 2 terminals to 27
> terminals.
>
> Is there an open ended xp product that I can buy to go in and manually
> install on all these computers? I know POS but the upper end OS stuff
> I'm not.
>
> Thanks again
>
> ecpos
 
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Leythos

Flightless Bird
In article <uXEC0v65KHA.420@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>,
tom@youreadaisyifyoudo.com says...
>
> :
> : Is there an open ended xp product that I can buy to go in and manually
> : install on all these computers? I know POS but the upper end OS stuff
> : I'm not.
>
> Windows XP is no longer available for purchase.


I believe if you purchase the Volume License version you get free
downgrade rights and that XP Prof is still available as a download from
the volume license site.

If the computers are all the same, or mostly all the same, I would
create a few base images, completely working, and then ghost the image
to a USB drive, then restore the image onsite at each location.

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