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The way we did it to 2000 users without a hitch. You dont need to install full client, only sqlnet or net8 (approx 28meg). We use Novell launcher. Take a snapshot on one machine, then novell automatically launches it to all clients.There should be similar products to this.(I think SMS by Microsoft). We have a constantly changing environment whereby the applications are updated,we use this method to update all local machines,and it works a dream. This is for now as we have a mixture of fat client and browser based.
Sam
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Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:27 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
How do most organizations deploy sqlnet client to a large user base? We've currently got hundreds, maybe thousands of users with various versions of the client installed on their desktop. We're also about to roll out Windows 2000 to a large percentage of these users. In testing we've determined that earlier desupported client versions (7.3.4 and such) seem to work on W2K with the apps currently deployed. I'm not happy with a "cross your fingers and hope" approach and have been pushing to get most users up to 8i as a client. Ideally I'd like to have something the users can download and install from the intranet. In searching technet downloads all I find is the entire bloated 200MB Oracle Client as a download - much too big for our remote users to download and install. All I want is the Net8 pieces I'd need for sqlworksheet, or TOAD, or an ODBC connection, so that the download and install time would be within reason. Anybody have suggestions? How are people on this list deploying Oracle apps to many users? Thanks.
Jim
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