+1 In heaven here with 7 on my laptop. It was Vista, but performance quickly deteriorated, faster than XP's average 6 month lifespan. And I hardly even boot my laptop, or install anything on it. It's basically for cabin trips and emergency use. I even allowed myself to live with Aero and refrained from dumbing the theme down back to classic. Now that RSAT is already released (Wow, props to MS on that), I am inclined to upgrade my XP workstation to 7. I can't go 5 months without rebuilding that darn thing. I like to keep my workstation at the same OS/Patch level as my users for testing and consistency, but I may need to fire up a VM for that. My users will diffidently be skipping Vista and getting Win7 soon. I'm eager for the deployment tools to be released, (they just RC'd). They looked very powerful in Vista. Bye Bye ghost! Sam
________________________________ From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 I installed it on my T400 today. It's like a dream compared to the last 2 years on Vista. And I didn't need a single driver from Lenovo. What wasn't installed by the DVD was picked up on MS Update on the first pass. It's so nice and fast. And now I don't wait 5 minutes to shut down or restart anymore. I only have one small problem with my Shoretel Call Manager and other than that, I'm in heaven baby! From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Yeah, that's what I did too. Just trying to figure out what keeps thinking it needs to install. Not a big deal. In fact the system will get wiped and reloaded here as soon as Win7 releases to us Action Pack folks. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 No. I got the instructions on the net which were essentially, install vista and don't even activate. The first time you logon after the install, immediately to install Win7. Don't even touch Vista. Just logon and go straight to the Win7 install. From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On the PC that our intern uses we upgraded XP Pro to Vista Business to the Win7RC. We ran into an issue where the PC always wants to restart to finish installing an unspecified update after you log in. If you click cancel, it'll just work normal but it was annoying. Did you update the Vista after installing it or go straight to the Win7? From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 8:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On the family computer was XP Pro. There is no XP Pro to Win7 upgrade so I had to go XP > Vista Ultimate > Win7 Ultimate. Took half the day but worked like a charm. My PC I flattened XP and installed from scratch. Not for the faint of heart of for a computer that matters (like a work computer) but a fun challenge. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 5:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 Windows 7 is very, very nice. I especially like how the Taskbar has been changed, and the fact that you no longer need a sidebar (just drop it on the desktop). It's faster than Vista. I have two installs done so far -- a clean x64 and an in-place upgrade of x86, and they're both running smoothly. Wireless networking configuration is MUCH better than before. Overall, lots of pleasant changes including performance and usability. I have 3 more systems to convert by the end of the month, or early September. -ASB ------- http://Home.ASBzone.com/ASB/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/AndrewBaker ------- On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: I have my first Windows 7 x64 Enterprise client up and running. I have added the RSAT for 7 RTM, and the System Center Essentials Console as well. Office Enterprise 2007 and a couple of more applications like Forefront Client Security. I have run into on issue that may be just a bug in my setup or something more but I can only get 2 Hotmail accounts configured. Under Vista I had three. System Center Essentials can not deploy a client to this system but I have just started looking at the issues. Other than what I have mentioned so far I see a big differences in the GUI (think some users will like it others will dislike it but all will need training). The load time is much faster to get to the login but about the same to get to a useable desktop but I have not really done any timing of the loads. The ability to load Bluetooth devices as in they are ready at the login prompt, very sweet. Cisco AnyConnect works a bit faster but we will see if it stays that way. Windows Explorer GUI is a major change and I think the users will hate it. The Firewall GUI has been changed big time but I think this is a good change. It is easier to see what applications are permitted under which of 3 network conditions. You can make changes but at the moment I need to be the Administrator to make the changes (users are permitted to allow exceptions by GPO). All of this within about 2 hours of loading and starting work with if. Loading the OS (scratch load), loading the Vista drivers, and loading all the applications took about 12 hours in total with about 2 to 3 of those hours spent transfering files from a USB drive. I did all the patching off domain and only put the machine into the domain after it was loaded with programs/applications but before any AV or personal files. Adding it to the domain and getting it configured with AV was just as fast as with Vista or faster. Windows Update Services seems to be a bit faster. Jon Harris ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
