leicester schools network - windows 7
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Windows 7How we did it.
Matthew Hughes
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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 - [email protected] - @mattmoo2w – weknownothing.co.uk
Who am I?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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