timeframe

One suggestion for bi-annual imaging is to image a few weeks after the beginning of school and then again in January. What are your thoughts for the time frame of bi-annual imaging?

//__Jeff's Thoughts:__// I think we should image all workstations 2-3 weeks after the first day of school. Imaging the OSX desktops will not take too long to complete, but we will also have to image all the OS9 machines as well this upcoming school year in preparation for migration to 10.5 server. Each technician should be able to handle imaging the desktops at their schools individually, but we may want consider teams to image the laptops in a separate sweep. I think we should set a deadline in the late fall/early winter for any new software/image update requests so that new images can be created and deployed after the high school semester break. In the late spring, we can deploy the projected image of the next school year at 1-2 schools to test in production in order to identify any issues. I believe if we get on a scheduled time frame for imaging, the process will go much smoother and the school personnel will know and can anticipate/plan for it happening. JP