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Fresh install or
YES
upgrade?
Start Here While Windows 7
permits an upgrade
option from Windows
The path to Windows 7 has Many systems purchased Check XP and Vista, it is
some key decision that will recently have been Vista- requirements at: always a better
determine how the ready, but verify requirements http:// practice to do a new
upgrade will proceed. New hardware? NO
against Windows 7 system windows.microsoft.com/ installation.
en-us/windows7/
requirements. products/system- UPGRADE
requirements
Determine a licensing
This is the most Run Upgrade
strategy
straightforward Interactive DVD Advisor: http://
installation process, installation www.microsoft.com/
Click windows/windows-7/
here follow this link to start
the flowchar for get/upgrade-
Click FRESH
interactive installation. advisor.aspx INSTALL
here For every situation,
the Upgrade Advisor
takes a look at the
Interactive install
system and gives a
Develop user data Click Windows Deployment report if the PC will
Here
protection strategy Services (WDS) run Windows 7.
Additional steps
such as extend or This can be data Drive actions
Format as desired YES
delete operations destructive! required?
may be required.
If any existing partitions are
present, you may want to
YES - NO DISK PRESENT - NEED DRIVERS preserve them. Further, you
NO
may want to create a
Obtain drivers from OEM dedicated partition or drive for
if not native during the the operating system and
install. It may be possible Load drivers Click Next
to update the Windows
allocate another for user data
native driver later with (My Documents).
Windows Update or via
OEM drivers.
WAIK
If the user state migration tool was If the user state migration tool was The WAIK toolkit works with other MDT willl be the best bet
a standard practice point, the a standard practice point, the tools such as MDT, MAP and the for mid-size and some
WAIK deployment model may WAIK deployment model may Microsoft Application Compatibility enterprise configurations.
make sense. WAIK makes sense make sense. WAIK makes sense Toolkit. Small environments would
for custom configurations where a for custom configurations where a benefit from MDT
full array of options are required for full array of options are required for deployments as well.
deployments. deployments.
The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit MDT offers additional features MDT 2010 also supports PowerShell, BitLocker
(MDT) 2010 product is totally new such as sequenced installations of and the new hard-link migration feature. Hard-
MDT from previous versions to support other packages, including link snapshots a users data locally (not copying
the next generations of Windows Microsoft Office. MDT also has back and forth over the network) and reverts it
operating systems. integration with System Center for after the installation is complete.
additional managment integration.
Windows 7 Installation Flowchart
Licensing
Give full thought to
the licensing XP Downgrade Potential downgrade
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situation for required? issues
Windows 7
Decide on whether or
A number of new policy
not to expose this
Policy decisions should be
notes WinXP Mode feature. Application
planned before
Available? compatibility
Windows 7 is rolled
requirements may
out.
dictate the answer.