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Uprading to windows 7 help

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  • Windows 7
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  • Business Computing
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October 25, 2013 9:46:03 PM

So I just started my new job a week ago and my boss already gave me a project to start working on. Basically we need to move about 200 computer from xp to windows 7. About 150 of those are just going to be swapped out with new machines since they cant be upgraded due to hardware reasons and the rest of the 50 will be just upgraded. So I want to make this as easy as possible for me and the company (it is a hospital). We need about 5 programs on all the systems and then there are some computer that need a few miscellaneous programs which I can install manually as its only a few. So basically I need one image which has those 5 programs which I can install on the new machines and upgrade from the old ones. No user data needs to be saved as I can save that manually as there are only about 10 that I would need to do that with. Any suggestions from people that have experience doing this and can help me out is appreciated.

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October 25, 2013 10:00:51 PM

Well here are a few things...

1) The thing about you is if you want LEGALY do this you need to buy a seperate license from EACH PC.

2) Now lets "Just" say you have 50 keys. This is what you can do. if they are All the same PC model then you can just make an image. Install Windows 7 on a PC. Give it a Generic user like Owner or User and same with the PC name. Now if you are on a Domain DO NOT ADD it at this time.

Now don't put in the Keys just yet. Go ahead and install all the programs you need and get it setup. Now you can use a Cloning program like EASEUS partition manager or Marcirum Refelect you can make an Image file, make a bootable CD, Make an image to a network drive or USB drive and then you can just boot off the CD. Once windows is booted you can remove the CD. Might need to have NIC card drives on had if you want to do it from the network. Then just browse for the image to restore whether on a network drive or USB drive and restore it.

Then once its restored boot into it, change the PC name, Add to domain if needed, and change user. Then you can customize it to the user. I do this a lot since i work with mainly dell and since all the Dells will run off the same Install Disk i can make an image with out having to deal with any key issues.

If there are different models you need to do this for every model. If they are all different then this won't work but with that many PC's I'm sure a lot of them are the same
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October 26, 2013 11:21:34 AM

A hospital should be running a domain and be paying for enterprise licenses. You can use ImageX, SCCM, MDT, & Sysprep to do what you need. All of these are either built-in or downloadable from MS. No need to be going to third parties for your tools.
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