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Windows Upgrade Causing Campus Headaches
Brian Krebs, Washington Post 2004-08-23

Microsoft Corp.'s decision to release a major upgrade for its flagship operating system in the same month that hundreds of thousands of students are

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Windows Upgrade Causing Campus Headaches 2004-08-23
Anonymous (1 replies)
Windows Upgrade Causing Campus Headaches 2004-08-24
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Windows Upgrade Causing Campus Headaches 2004-08-24
Anonymous
If they would have tested with the SP2 RC over the past couple of months in a lab and then deployed a few of the SUS Servers on their Intranet they could use policies on their LAN's infrastructure to police the traffic so its not a bottleneck.

With networks that large they are bound to have layer 3 switches with QoS capabilities from the core to the distribution layers to manage the traffic or atleast use Packet Shaper for the WAN if they don't want to deploy SUS Servers. This all amounts to improper planning and testing on the schools part.

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Windows Upgrade Causing Campus Headaches 2004-08-25
Anonymous (1 replies)
squid would help 2004-08-25
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