Dear David,
We just recently did this for our Windows PCs (TS 4 and TS3). You can save
the ICON configuration or the Topspin installation files and load them on
the new PC. Passwords carried over just fine on our end.
Peter
On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM David Richardson via groups.io wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently wrapped up replacing old CentOS hosts with new Alma PCs. Went
> smoothly thanks to all the posts here from others about the various
> hurdles. Both of those instruments are setup where everyone has a local
> system account and getting accounts on the new PCs was straight forward.
> My remaining instrument in pretty much exclusively walk-up ICON usage. I
> am dreading this change since it is so many users, all setup within ICON
> and not local system accounts, and the instrument is normally used
> more-or-less all day everyday. I have put off doing anything with this
> workhorse for so long it is actually still embarrassingly running CentOS 5,
> but it is finally time. I have had the new Alma PC on my desk for months
> ready to go and have just dragged my feet changing it out.
>
> Any advice/experiences/thoughts about replacing a workhorse ICON PC with a
> little downtime as possible? One of my biggest concerns is passwords and
> not having to coordinate meeting 60 users in the lab to get their passwords
> setup.
>
> Thanks everyone and happy holidays.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> David Richardson, Ph.D.
> Director, NMR Facility and Cryogenic Services
> Office of Research
> University of Central Florida
> david.richardson_at_ucf.edu
> 407-823-2961
> http://sciences.ucf.edu/chemistry/nmr/
>
>
>
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