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Windows XP >> Re-Use Hi All,

We have just started on a big rollout which involves a few thousand macines.
The old servers are 2000 with win2000 clients. Then new infrastructure is
2003 and XP.

Within the last few days a new directive has reached us where we need to
re-use as much old equipment as possible in order to achive cost savings.
Basically, the Legacy equipment need to meet a certain criteria before they
are allowed on the new system, they need to be under 2 year old, most of the
legacy kit to be retained are either printers, scanners, plotters and, in
some cases erganomic keyboard and mice.

What i would like to know is given the current build which has restrictions
etc, is there a way of finding out if the old legacy kit could be introduced
to the new infrastructure without installing any drivers?

Any information on the above would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards.

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Flinty

Windows XP657

Windows XP >> Re-Use Peter F wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have just started on a big rollout which involves a few thousand macines.
> The old servers are 2000 with win2000 clients. Then new infrastructure is
> 2003 and XP.
>
> Within the last few days a new directive has reached us where we need to
> re-use as much old equipment as possible in order to achive cost savings.
> Basically, the Legacy equipment need to meet a certain criteria before they
> are allowed on the new system, they need to be under 2 year old, most of the
> legacy kit to be retained are either printers, scanners, plotters and, in
> some cases erganomic keyboard and mice.
>
> What i would like to know is given the current build which has restrictions
> etc, is there a way of finding out if the old legacy kit could be introduced
> to the new infrastructure without installing any drivers?
>
> Any information on the above would be greatly appreciated.

You'd just need to check with the hardware mftrs.' as to whether drivers
exist for XP or not. The hardware mftrs. will have this information on
their websites.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Windows XP >> Re-Use Thanks Malke,

Will do what you suggested and as implementation if they restrict any
drivers from the XP build.
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Flinty

"Malke" wrote:

> Peter F wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We have just started on a big rollout which involves a few thousand macines.
> > The old servers are 2000 with win2000 clients. Then new infrastructure is
> > 2003 and XP.
> >
> > Within the last few days a new directive has reached us where we need to
> > re-use as much old equipment as possible in order to achive cost savings.
> > Basically, the Legacy equipment need to meet a certain criteria before they
> > are allowed on the new system, they need to be under 2 year old, most of the
> > legacy kit to be retained are either printers, scanners, plotters and, in
> > some cases erganomic keyboard and mice.
> >
> > What i would like to know is given the current build which has restrictions
> > etc, is there a way of finding out if the old legacy kit could be introduced
> > to the new infrastructure without installing any drivers?
> >
> > Any information on the above would be greatly appreciated.
>
> You'd just need to check with the hardware mftrs.' as to whether drivers
> exist for XP or not. The hardware mftrs. will have this information on
> their websites.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>