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    • BRRABillB
      BRRABill @MattSpeller
      last edited by

      @MattSpeller said:

      You must enjoy pain or something. My users would BBQ me once they finished laughing.

      You mean because of upgrading to Windows 10?

      I can be talked out of it very quickly.

      From what I read it seemed everyone here had
      a -- already migrated or
      b -- had plans to migrate soon

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      • MattSpellerM
        MattSpeller @BRRABill
        last edited by

        @BRRABill We are just starting to think about it for mid2017 - it'll require a butt load of user training and testing of all our insane number of weird one off apps and junk.

        7 is supported until 2020 so there's no rush.

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        • BRRABillB
          BRRABill @MattSpeller
          last edited by

          @MattSpeller said:

          @BRRABill We are just starting to think about it for mid2017 - it'll require a butt load of user training and testing of all our insane number of weird one off apps and junk.

          7 is supported until 2020 so there's no rush.

          That was kind of my thinking, too. I could be dead by then, and wouldn't have to worry about it.

          But after reading the thread yesterday I felt like I was the only ML user who hadn't migrated.

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          • MattSpellerM
            MattSpeller @BRRABill
            last edited by

            @BRRABill EHEhehehehehe

            You are most certainly not. I run Win10 at home for my own personal punishment. We trialed win8.1 on some tablet-y things but got terrible feedback on the OS and the hardware.

            2020 is a lonnnngggg way away.

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            • BRRABillB
              BRRABill
              last edited by

              I can't even find the thread I was thinking about.

              Maybe I dreamed it.

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @MattSpeller
                last edited by

                @MattSpeller said:

                @BRRABill EHEhehehehehe

                You are most certainly not. I run Win10 at home for my own personal punishment. We trialed win8.1 on some tablet-y things but got terrible feedback on the OS and the hardware.

                2020 is a lonnnngggg way away.

                And Windows 7 is ancient.

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                • coliverC
                  coliver @BRRABill
                  last edited by

                  @BRRABill said:

                  I can't even find the thread I was thinking about.

                  Maybe I dreamed it.

                  Nah, you're not dreaming I seem to remember a few of us talking about how soon we will be deploying Windows 10. I think @JaredBusch said he already has plans for this summer (or next) to do the deployment.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch
                    last edited by

                    To answer @BRRABill's question.

                    The best thing for you to do right now is to do each machine manually. It is really not all that hard, and there is little for you to do other than wait for a few hours.

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @BRRABill
                      last edited by

                      @BRRABill said:

                      I can't even find the thread I was thinking about.

                      Maybe I dreamed it.

                      This thread: http://mangolassi.it/topic/7544/win10-upgrade-icon-on-domain-machines

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @JaredBusch
                        last edited by

                        @JaredBusch said:

                        To answer @BRRABill's question.

                        The best thing for you to do right now is to do each machine manually. It is really not all that hard, and there is little for you to do other than wait for a few hours.

                        Let me quantify that statement.

                        If you are on fairly new hardware that you expect to last another 2-3 years, then upgrade it all to Windows 10.

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                        • MattSpellerM
                          MattSpeller @JaredBusch
                          last edited by

                          @JaredBusch said:

                          If you are on fairly new hardware that you expect to last another 2-3 years, then upgrade it all to Windows 10.

                          ^ this x10

                          We only plan on moving next year as getting new machines with 7 will be hard / impossible.

                          Likely we will not do a rollout but just gradually go as we replace machines.

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender
                            last edited by

                            Most of my machines were replaced when XP was retired, so they are fairly new. I expect another 3-5 years out of them.

                            I will do everything I can to upgrade before the free upgrade offer expires. I fully expect MS to extend the free upgrade offer, BUT I don't want to risk it.

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender
                              last edited by

                              You will have to manually update each machine on it's own. This is a legal requirement to get the upgrade attached to the machine. After you upgrade, you can roll back to Win7 if you want, you can reinstall Win10 from scratch, deploy a corporate image, whatever you want.

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                              • JaredBuschJ
                                JaredBusch
                                last edited by

                                That is my situation. Almost all of my clients have newer machines that I expect from 2-5 more years out of at a minimum.

                                Rolling everything to 10 just makes sense.

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403 @BRRABill
                                  last edited by

                                  @BRRABill said:

                                  @MattSpeller said:

                                  @BRRABill We are just starting to think about it for mid2017 - it'll require a butt load of user training and testing of all our insane number of weird one off apps and junk.

                                  7 is supported until 2020 so there's no rush.

                                  That was kind of my thinking, too. I could be dead by then, and wouldn't have to worry about it.

                                  But after reading the thread yesterday I felt like I was the only ML user who hadn't migrated.

                                  We haven't migrated yet, and we don't even have anything special. We're a MS office / Adobe shop.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                                    last edited by

                                    @JaredBusch said:

                                    @MattSpeller said:

                                    @BRRABill EHEhehehehehe

                                    You are most certainly not. I run Win10 at home for my own personal punishment. We trialed win8.1 on some tablet-y things but got terrible feedback on the OS and the hardware.

                                    2020 is a lonnnngggg way away.

                                    And Windows 7 is ancient.

                                    Yes, remember that Windows 7 is seven years old. Seven years, for a computer OS! It's amazing to think that people still consider this a reasonable system to keep running (outside of those special circumstances.) Three major updates with names and one or two without since Win 7 came out. It was a good release, sure, but seven years!?!?

                                    That's nearly a decade. 70% of one, anyway.

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                                    • BRRABillB
                                      BRRABill @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by BRRABill

                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      @JaredBusch said:

                                      @MattSpeller said:

                                      @BRRABill EHEhehehehehe

                                      You are most certainly not. I run Win10 at home for my own personal punishment. We trialed win8.1 on some tablet-y things but got terrible feedback on the OS and the hardware.

                                      2020 is a lonnnngggg way away.

                                      And Windows 7 is ancient.

                                      Yes, remember that Windows 7 is seven years old. Seven years, for a computer OS! It's amazing to think that people still consider this a reasonable system to keep running (outside of those special circumstances.) Three major updates with names and one or two without since Win 7 came out. It was a good release, sure, but seven years!?!?

                                      That's nearly a decade. 70% of one, anyway.

                                      What makes Windows 10 that much better?

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender @BRRABill
                                        last edited by

                                        @BRRABill said:

                                        What makes Windows 10 that much better?

                                        It's 7 years newer, all the security lessons that MS has learn applied. Refinement.

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                                        • J
                                          Jason Banned @BRRABill
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                                          @BRRABill said:

                                          Another question/thought is that I am going to be upgrading to a 2012 domain shortly. Should I do the Win10 upgrade AFTER that for group policy reasons?

                                          You can update the GP central store. domain level doesn't affect GP.

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                                          • iroalI
                                            iroal
                                            last edited by

                                            I'm in the same situation, 17 Dell Desktops with W7

                                            I upgraded one machine using Windows Update, no error in all the process, looking the license appear as correctly activated.

                                            Now I'm going to create a image to clone the computers, using this tutorial you can activate W10 licence before install it

                                            http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/23354-clean-install-windows-10-directly-without-having-upgrade-first.html

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