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Nov 30, 2011

Deploying Windows 7 from A to Z

If you are an enterprise operating system deployment guy, then you might be looking out for a quick, neat article about performing enterprise-scale desktop deployment. The reference article from Microsoft is talks about, how to migrate hundreds or thousands of computers running Windows XP to Windows 7.

Today I would like to talk about a article of Jeremy Chapman, a senior product manager at Microsoft, documents the high-level steps for IT professionals to perform an enterprise-scale desktop deployment project—starting with Windows XP and moving to Windows 7.

This Guide is covers most of below IT Professionals assumptions and scenarios.

  1. Moving multiple computers or users from Windows XP or Windows Vista to Windows 7.
  2. Transitioning to Windows 7 have user data, settings, and applications that somehow (either partially or completely) need to be migrated to Windows 7.
  3. If you would like to avoid manual effort in migrating to Windows 7.
  4. Prefering to have applications be part of the customized OS you install or automate application installation as part of the total deployment process.
  5. Would like to prefer entire process is as automated as possible. Then this aricle would handy and stepping stone for planning the Windows 7 Migration.
Refer Deploying Windows 7 from A to Z.doc