Installation Of Office 2000

[grimmy]

Hello,
I am currently starting to roll out Office 2000 onto all P.C's across a network from a setup routine which is held on an NT server.
The problem is that the installation takes around 45 minutes when you run more than one install at the same time.
We have checked statistics on the server and nothing jumps out to us as a problem and also we have checked network utilisation which is fine.
All P.C's have a minimum spec of p2.

Has anybody any ideas why it is taking so long or what to look for.

Cheers.....Grimmy

 

[ShackDaddy]

Is the server configured to be a file server, or an application server? If it's set as an application server, I can imagine that there would be less RAM used for file caching, and your installations are bottlenecking on server-side disk access. I wouldn't worry about network, I'd check out memory and disk on the server. I wouldn't expect memory spikes, since the server will only be allocating a small portion of its memory to file caching, but disk activity would be something to watch. The key would be to get it to allocate more. Check the Cache perfmon counters for the number of read hits. Compare Server Work Queues (read bytes/sec) with Logical Disk (disk reads/sec) and Cache (copy reads/sec) to get an idea of where the installation data is getting served out from.

ShackDaddy