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Planning for the Installation of Windows 7
12. Choose your time zone on the time zone and clock screen. Make sure the time and
date are accurate, and click Next.
13. Select Work Network as the computer’s current location.
14. The Windows 7 desktop will appear. The installation is complete.
Designing User State Migration
The majority of Microsoft installed clients are Windows XP. Thus, if you’re considering
adding Windows 7, you probably have many Windows XP clients. Unfortunately, there isn’t
a direct upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7.
If you can do a direct upgrade, you won’t need to worry about migration.
An upgrade will retain all of the installed applications and all of the user’s
data. An upgrade is still considered a risky operation, and it’s possible that
things can go wrong, so you should always have a backup of the user’s
data in case the worst happens.
If you’ve looked at the upgrade paths from earlier versions of Windows to Windows 7,
you may have been a little surprised. There are very few upgrade choices. Some of the pos-
sible upgrade paths to versions likely to be used in the Enterprise are
Vista Business to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate
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Vista Enterprise to Windows 7 Enterprise
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Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate
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If you’re migrating other existing Windows clients, you probably won’t be able to do an
upgrade. This doesn’t have to be as painful as it sounds. The User State Migration Toolkit
has undergone significant changes and improvements and will make your job a lot easier.
USMT can be used in three types of migrations. Each one assumes that you have files
and settings from a Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 installation that you want
to restore to a new installation of Windows 7.
In-place migration An in-place migration uses the same hardware for the old and new
installations of Windows. Hard drive partitions are not modified, and files and settings
from the previous installation are automatically retained in the
Windows.old folder.
EXERCISE 1.1 (continued)
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