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Situation
Compaq had acquired Digital Equipment Corporation in 1998. The rollout had to land while two corporate IT estates were being brought together.
The organisation was moving its desktop estate to Windows 2000 across the USA in 2000–01.
Additional evidence · 07
Corporate experience · Compaq · via Digital GlobalSoft
Workplace change at scale
A Windows 2000 rollout to more than 60,000 users across the USA in 2000–01, supported as Subject Matter Expert for Windows Technologies within a 62-person global team at Digital GlobalSoft.
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Executive challenge
Roll out a new desktop operating system to more than 60,000 users across the USA while the business was absorbing a merger.
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My role
Subject Matter Expert for Windows Technologies at Digital GlobalSoft, within the 62-person global team that delivered the rollout. My hands-on contribution:
- Worked on parts of the Active Directory design
- Automated imaging with Remote Installation Services and Systems Management Server
- Application compatibility for the new desktop build
- Led a team of engineers through the rollout
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Scope
- Windows 2000 rolled out to 60,000+ users across the USA, 2000–01
- Delivered by a 62-person global team, with my role as Subject Matter Expert for Windows Technologies
- Delivered while Digital was being integrated into Compaq
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Pattern & insight
Workplace change succeeds when users experience continuity, not a technology event.
Deployment volume measures reach. The real measure is whether people kept working, critical services stayed available and the new environment could be supported after rollout. Govern workplace change around continuity, user readiness and service stability, not only deployment milestones.