Windows 7How we did it.

Matthew Hughes

Matthew HughesStarted at the Academy almost 2 years ago as web developer but get involved with everything and spend around 50% of my time on web work with SharePoint.

e - matt.hughes@tseacademy.orgt - @mattmoo2w – weknownothing.co.uk

Who am I?

January 2009 Beta – Bring out your fishes April 2009 - Release Candidate

I wanted to try in classrooms at this point Tried on a few staff laptops

July / August 2009 – RTM on Technet & MSDN Server 2008 R2 was released around the

same time

Beta Testing

Taskbar – Program grouping Taskbar - Right click for options, recent,

pinning? Aero snap Aero peek Windows Media Player – Streaming Windows XP Mode – (Hardware Virtualization) Problem Steps Recorder

Major Differences

We are fortunate to only have 7 different makes and models of machine all less then

three years old. Laptops – 6715s Desktops – DC5850, DC5800, DC7700,

DC7800 Netbooks – Asus eeePC 1000he

Webcam drivers didn’t exist. Card reader drivers didn’t exist All updated via windows update later in the

year

Hardware

No Major issues and we have Adobe Master Suite, Smart Software, Go! Science, Testbase etc etc

Mind Genius didn’t work Educational software generally poorly written

and not very well supported in my opinion and so some smaller less critical programmes didn’t work.

Do you let poor software hold you back?

Software

Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Used this before and works as expected

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Requires Server 2008 R2 http://bit.ly/Ygltg West Hatch use this and swear by it See blog on Friday.

Deployment Options

Our role out was painless, sorry. Should you hold back because of poor

software? Advantages Vs Disadvantages

Xp vs Vista – Xp Wins XP vs 7 – 7 Wins

Microsoft Windows 7 - Early adopters publication http://bit.ly/9hBPJo

Final Thoughts