Win7PRO to Win10PRO Upgrade
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So after reading some discussion yesterday, I convinced myself I should upgrade our machines here to Windows 10.
We have about 15 computers running Win7Pro on a 2003 domain. All DELL OEM licenses.
Is that legal for me?
What is the upgrade path here?
Can I just install Windows 10 manually on each machine? Is there a better way?Another question/thought is that I am going to be upgrading to a 2012 domain shortly. Should I do the Win10 upgrade AFTER that for group policy reasons?
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You must enjoy pain or something. My users would BBQ me once they finished laughing.
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@MattSpeller said:
You must enjoy pain or something. My users would BBQ me once they finished laughing.
You mean because of upgrading to Windows 10?
I can be talked out of it very quickly.
From what I read it seemed everyone here had
a -- already migrated or
b -- had plans to migrate soon -
@BRRABill We are just starting to think about it for mid2017 - it'll require a butt load of user training and testing of all our insane number of weird one off apps and junk.
7 is supported until 2020 so there's no rush.
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@MattSpeller said:
@BRRABill We are just starting to think about it for mid2017 - it'll require a butt load of user training and testing of all our insane number of weird one off apps and junk.
7 is supported until 2020 so there's no rush.
That was kind of my thinking, too. I could be dead by then, and wouldn't have to worry about it.
But after reading the thread yesterday I felt like I was the only ML user who hadn't migrated.
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@BRRABill EHEhehehehehe
You are most certainly not. I run Win10 at home for my own personal punishment. We trialed win8.1 on some tablet-y things but got terrible feedback on the OS and the hardware.
2020 is a lonnnngggg way away.
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I can't even find the thread I was thinking about.
Maybe I dreamed it.
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@MattSpeller said:
@BRRABill EHEhehehehehe
You are most certainly not. I run Win10 at home for my own personal punishment. We trialed win8.1 on some tablet-y things but got terrible feedback on the OS and the hardware.
2020 is a lonnnngggg way away.
And Windows 7 is ancient.
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@BRRABill said:
I can't even find the thread I was thinking about.
Maybe I dreamed it.
Nah, you're not dreaming I seem to remember a few of us talking about how soon we will be deploying Windows 10. I think @JaredBusch said he already has plans for this summer (or next) to do the deployment.
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To answer @BRRABill's question.
The best thing for you to do right now is to do each machine manually. It is really not all that hard, and there is little for you to do other than wait for a few hours.
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@BRRABill said:
I can't even find the thread I was thinking about.
Maybe I dreamed it.
This thread: http://mangolassi.it/topic/7544/win10-upgrade-icon-on-domain-machines
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@JaredBusch said:
To answer @BRRABill's question.
The best thing for you to do right now is to do each machine manually. It is really not all that hard, and there is little for you to do other than wait for a few hours.
Let me quantify that statement.
If you are on fairly new hardware that you expect to last another 2-3 years, then upgrade it all to Windows 10.
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@JaredBusch said:
If you are on fairly new hardware that you expect to last another 2-3 years, then upgrade it all to Windows 10.
^ this x10
We only plan on moving next year as getting new machines with 7 will be hard / impossible.
Likely we will not do a rollout but just gradually go as we replace machines.
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Most of my machines were replaced when XP was retired, so they are fairly new. I expect another 3-5 years out of them.
I will do everything I can to upgrade before the free upgrade offer expires. I fully expect MS to extend the free upgrade offer, BUT I don't want to risk it.
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You will have to manually update each machine on it's own. This is a legal requirement to get the upgrade attached to the machine. After you upgrade, you can roll back to Win7 if you want, you can reinstall Win10 from scratch, deploy a corporate image, whatever you want.
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That is my situation. Almost all of my clients have newer machines that I expect from 2-5 more years out of at a minimum.
Rolling everything to 10 just makes sense.
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@BRRABill said:
@MattSpeller said:
@BRRABill We are just starting to think about it for mid2017 - it'll require a butt load of user training and testing of all our insane number of weird one off apps and junk.
7 is supported until 2020 so there's no rush.
That was kind of my thinking, too. I could be dead by then, and wouldn't have to worry about it.
But after reading the thread yesterday I felt like I was the only ML user who hadn't migrated.
We haven't migrated yet, and we don't even have anything special. We're a MS office / Adobe shop.
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@JaredBusch said:
@MattSpeller said:
@BRRABill EHEhehehehehe
You are most certainly not. I run Win10 at home for my own personal punishment. We trialed win8.1 on some tablet-y things but got terrible feedback on the OS and the hardware.
2020 is a lonnnngggg way away.
And Windows 7 is ancient.
Yes, remember that Windows 7 is seven years old. Seven years, for a computer OS! It's amazing to think that people still consider this a reasonable system to keep running (outside of those special circumstances.) Three major updates with names and one or two without since Win 7 came out. It was a good release, sure, but seven years!?!?
That's nearly a decade. 70% of one, anyway.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@MattSpeller said:
@BRRABill EHEhehehehehe
You are most certainly not. I run Win10 at home for my own personal punishment. We trialed win8.1 on some tablet-y things but got terrible feedback on the OS and the hardware.
2020 is a lonnnngggg way away.
And Windows 7 is ancient.
Yes, remember that Windows 7 is seven years old. Seven years, for a computer OS! It's amazing to think that people still consider this a reasonable system to keep running (outside of those special circumstances.) Three major updates with names and one or two without since Win 7 came out. It was a good release, sure, but seven years!?!?
That's nearly a decade. 70% of one, anyway.
What makes Windows 10 that much better?
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@BRRABill said:
What makes Windows 10 that much better?
It's 7 years newer, all the security lessons that MS has learn applied. Refinement.
