We need 11 new desktops at our office. Our servers run on W2003R2. Desktops will be primarily running AC 6.2 whenever it finally comes out (using 5029 now), EHS billing software (housed on one of our servers), Adobe Acrobat and MS Office (rarely).
Is your current server (Server 2003R2) 64 bit or 32 bit? I'd probably upgrade the server first since server 2003R2
mainstream support has reached end of life. I'd definitely upgrade if your server is 32 bit. Also, if your database is large, it may time out when running the database tuner for version 6, typically when servers/main computers are running 32 bit versions of Windows (w/slower processors). Of course, you could just upload it to AC Support, but if your database is very large, that could take a while. You also might want to upgrade to a gigabit switch as well. This will let you move files across the network much more quickly (10 times, not exaggerating).
Currently using 5029 our prescription module is VERY slow on our older computers w slow processors and <4MB RAM.
How slow is the prescription writer exactly? (Like 5 seconds, 10 seconds?) Mine runs pretty smoothly on v6 on 7 year old desktops with Pentium 4s and ~1GB of RAM. (Upgrading like you too though.) Most users didn't have issues in v5 with the prescription writer. Try disabling hardware acceleration (instructions in my signature). Who knows, it might work for v5.
You'll should definitely consider deploying a master image for this install. Installing software on 11 computers can be very very time consuming.
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