[MACEP] Terminal Servers

[charlie irish]

Evergreen School District in Washington has gone almost entirely that route
district wide except for a relatively few specialized workstations. They
have found that there is minimal hardware cost savings because what they
don't spend on workstations they have to spend on increased server capacity.
Their savings have been in the time and cost of having techs not have to run
around to many sometimes widely spaced locations.

For a smaller district that already has excess server capacity and network
bandwidth it can make some sense, but in terms of savings on hardware costs,
don't forget the increased need for servers if you are already running them
at close to capacity. Also remember that the vendor estimates as to the
number of users a given Terminal server can support are probably a bit
optimistic. 

> We run our cadlab, at our High School, completely from Windows 2003 Server
> using Terminal Services. We also run our, High School, Library computer lab
> using Windows 2003 Server Terminal Services along with other Terminal
> Services labs in our Elementary schools. It works very well and has saved
> the district a lot of money by not having to buy new computers. We are able
> to run our labs using as little as 32MB's of RAM. I'd be glad to talk  with
> you about it anytime.
> 
> Regards,
> Jim Hendrie
> Computer Specialist II
> Phoenix Talent School District # 4
> Phoenix, Oregon 97535
> 
> 
> On 5/1/07 7:27 AM, "Randy Cummings" <Randy at paes.com> wrote:
> 
>> Who out in MACEP land has some fairy deep experience with Terminal
>> Servers? I'd like to talk to you.
>> 
>> Has anybody heard of a school (or business) running 120 computers
>> solely on a terminal server running Windows 2003?
>> 
>> 
>> Randy Cummings
>> Technology Coordinator
>> Portland Adventist Elementary School
>> 
>> Tell me and I forget.
>> Show me and I remember.
>> E-Mail me and it gets fixed.
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