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Quoting tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Rob Beard wrote:
At a previous company I used to work for they would generally delay updates for testing for about a fortnight to test against all the different systems, unless that is it was an ultra urgent update.Last company where I worked at doing some form of MS admin we looked at that: To test you need as many servers for the test as you have live so that costs you twice as much in licenses!!! Tom te tom te tom
To be fair, the company I worked at was a radio group. It would have probably worked out cheaper to have spare test machines and servers kicking around than to risk it screwing up and potentially loosing the company revenue on sales and also possibly exposing them to multiple fines from Ofcom due to things like audio logging not working.
Even when they did rollouts, it was still on a limited basis to start with luckily as with 3 of us covering 6 sites across South Devon, a big screwup would have been disastrous.
It may be different with other organisations, maybe some organisations can afford to have down time, or do things differently. In the case of one of my current customers, they have a couple of spare PCs, and in total they have only about 8 PCs, so it's no major problem to just do one PC at a time, and if a PC fails they have a spare to use.
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