Upgrades

I was curious how other facilities handle upgrades, either software or hardware.  The way they insist on doing it here seems like a lot of extra work, but I have no way to know if it’s normal procedure or not.

Basically, when we get an upgrade to Cloverleaf, they buy a new server (we use Windows 200X) to put it on, even though I remind them the current server is under-utilized and more than one version of Cloverleaf can be on one machine.  We use a lot of VB scripts for paging, monitoring, etc and when we move to a new machine, changes in the OS’s security settings etc always break the scripts.  The folks that build the server insist they have to give it a new name and new IP address which means I have to get with each vendor with in-bound messages and arrange to have them update the IP they send to.  

Is this the way everyone else does it?

Mark