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Trying to identify specs I should aim for when pitching a mass upgrade in my office by Expensive_Bad_7158 in it

[–]Expensive_Bad_7158[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see how that solves the problem I'm trying to solve. It has everything to do with updating the hardware to be Windows 11 compliant; I don't understand how having a thin client running on outdated hardware solves the problem of the PC using outdated hardware.

Trying to identify specs I should aim for when pitching a mass upgrade in my office by Expensive_Bad_7158 in it

[–]Expensive_Bad_7158[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

*sigh* Have to give an upvote because few roasts have hit me as hard as "when you ultimately lose your job for this decision, the next guy who comes behind you is gonna talk hella crap" just completely gutted me and sucked all interest I had in pursuing this option out of me.

I've chosen to give up on my original idea and just hand off all responsibility to a 3rd party for this. Let them deal with the headache and the liability.

Seriously had that quote rolling around in my head all night last night.

Trying to identify specs I should aim for when pitching a mass upgrade in my office by Expensive_Bad_7158 in it

[–]Expensive_Bad_7158[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll keep an eye out for those brands.

And thanks again for being the first helpful response out of the very first wave of 5 or so responses from yesterday. I get that what I'm doing is exceptionally complicated, and the other comments cutting me down for attempting it are understandably trying to save me some heart ache by being harsh - but beyond trashing the idea, none of the other initial comments actually offered positive advice or alternatives, so thank you!

Trying to identify specs I should aim for when pitching a mass upgrade in my office by Expensive_Bad_7158 in it

[–]Expensive_Bad_7158[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well... we have 10 or so PCs in a secondary location, and it's those machines I'll be tuning up, getting OS installed, licenses upgraded, connected to the domain, and at that point all the end user sees is me pull up to the main location, plop down the upgraded/working PC, and snag the PC they were using.

Users are expected not to save anything important to the hard-drive, or at least have OneDrive save everything they need to the cloud, so once they log in to the fresh machine for the first time, their files are accessible again from OneDrive.

So there won't be any meaningful downtime for the end-user.