Now let's talk about your Installation Options for Windows 7. Now as always we can do an upgrade or we can do fresh install, OK? That's the good news. The bad news is you can only upgrade from Windows Vista OK, and you need Service Pack 1 on Windows Vista and then you can just upgrade to Windows 7. Now let's talk about the upgrade process. Now I did- I've done this on a number of different machines with different versions, beta versions and so forth of Windows 7 and on the release version it went fantastic. It upgraded everything went great, no blue screens, no problems on different machines the install time the upgrade time could vary widely. On one laptop it took like probably two hours on a newer laptop probably less then 4 months old the entire thing happened in probably gosh I don't know 20 minutes. So it can be blindingly quick or painfully slow and I'm not sure exactly what's causing that. Now here's the bad news with most cooperate environments and that is XP cannot be directly upgraded to Windows 7. This is going to be a fresh install. Now Microsoft has tried on the Home User market, they've included the Windows Easy Transfer Utility that'll make your file settings transfer from your XP Machine a little easier. Now you still have the USMT, the User State Migration Tool that you can use in the cooperate environment but also in cooperate environments you can build an image and I've included in the Work Files with this course a white paper, let me show you that and right here it is. It's a white paper that Microsoft has out there in TechNet for building a standard image of Windows 7. It is a step by step guide and as you can see there's a lot of information in here, let me just jump down this is a 12 page guide and this will show you how to set-up the standard image of Windows 7 so that you can roll this out in a cooperate environment. We won't go into that in the course here but I just want you to know that resource is already out there in your Work Files for you so you don't have to go dig around try to find it. So there's your installation options, now you can still do unattended installs and all that but again don't want to dig into that, you can go to TechNet and chase this stuff down. But two basics, upgrade only from Windows Vista Service Pack 1, fresh install for everything else.
| Course: | Microsoft Windows 7 |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34064 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-86-6 |
| Release Date: | 2009-12-10 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 74 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |