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EDS required an IT consultant who could aid them in a Windows 2000 Workstation rollout to one of its major UK clients, the requirement was to create and manage a build centre from which the workstation rollout could be centred.

The Client
EDS is a very large multi national company that needs no introduction. The client in this case was BP Exploration Ltd, BP's requirement was to carry out a hardware refresh of their current desktop/laptop hardware throughout its UK Upstream Sites (UKCS) infrastructure to align themselves with BP's global Active Directory Rollout.

The Problem
The time scales for the rollout were very tight and the numbers vast, nearly 3000 desktops/laptops had to be rolled out within the space of 4 months, included in this rollout was the migration of personal user data that was held on the users PC

The Solution
RTFM set-up a warehouse/build area within the BP complex from which to operate from. BP provided a base build for the machines to be built from and a list of UKCS specific settings and application that had to be installed on each machine.

RTFM designed an automated process for installing and configuring the UKCS specifics to the base build. Twenty build engineers were housed within the warehouse that formed the production line for the UKCS build, allowing the insallation engineers to deploy 60 machines a day throught the BP complex.



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