Ok, I was contacted by my Vet's office because they had a "serious computer problem." I have spoken with him in the past about upgrading some of his hardware (I use to do IT work but now are an HR Manager).
This is how they had it setup:
Computer 1:
Ran Quickbooks
Hosted Avimark software
Computer 2:
Ran Avimark software from Computer 1
The reason they called was because Computer 1 died. I was able to salvage the HDD out of it and throw it into Computer 2 (identical computers) and get QB and Avimark up and running.
Here is my proposal, get two new workstations, and a "server." Have the two workstations pull everything from the server since Avimark can be run without anything locally installed and the same for QB. As for the server I just told them to get a computer with Win7 Pro and about 6 gb RAM. Also I want to recommend some type of backup system with an external HDD for the server.
First a little about the office, they don't have internet access and they have a small budget (btw I am doing this for free of course). On Monday we went and got two new HP desktops running Win7 Home Premium and I have them setup as workstations and the one remaining old pc running as the server for now.
This weekend what I want to do is go out and get a pretty decent Win7 Pro machine, load everything off the old computer onto this and have that setup as the new server with some type of backup system running on it to an external HDD.
What do you think of this setup? Should I do anything else, or differently? They have about 70 gigs of data right now. Ill tell you its hard to install printer drivers for Win7 without internet access.
The only problem I have run into so far is QB Pro 2k7 is running really slow on the workstations (with everything running locally not off of a server). Any thoughts as to why its so slow?
Thanks for any comments or what not, I want to make sure I am doing the right things here, I have been out of practice for a while.
This is how they had it setup:
Computer 1:
Ran Quickbooks
Hosted Avimark software
Computer 2:
Ran Avimark software from Computer 1
The reason they called was because Computer 1 died. I was able to salvage the HDD out of it and throw it into Computer 2 (identical computers) and get QB and Avimark up and running.
Here is my proposal, get two new workstations, and a "server." Have the two workstations pull everything from the server since Avimark can be run without anything locally installed and the same for QB. As for the server I just told them to get a computer with Win7 Pro and about 6 gb RAM. Also I want to recommend some type of backup system with an external HDD for the server.
First a little about the office, they don't have internet access and they have a small budget (btw I am doing this for free of course). On Monday we went and got two new HP desktops running Win7 Home Premium and I have them setup as workstations and the one remaining old pc running as the server for now.
This weekend what I want to do is go out and get a pretty decent Win7 Pro machine, load everything off the old computer onto this and have that setup as the new server with some type of backup system running on it to an external HDD.
What do you think of this setup? Should I do anything else, or differently? They have about 70 gigs of data right now. Ill tell you its hard to install printer drivers for Win7 without internet access.
The only problem I have run into so far is QB Pro 2k7 is running really slow on the workstations (with everything running locally not off of a server). Any thoughts as to why its so slow?
Thanks for any comments or what not, I want to make sure I am doing the right things here, I have been out of practice for a while.