Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines)
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Unrelated note, has anyone upgraded a Win7 laptop with dual video cards to Windows 10 yet? I havent spent much time on it yet, planning to this month, but my laptop doesnt even prompt me for the upgrade and doesnt run if I manually instigate the upgrade process.
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@Brains I'm afraid not
I've got very few Windows boxes to deal with, and only one that needs upgraded yet. I've just been running updates and hitting up the "new" control panel settings to disable things. -
@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
something I discovered yesterday, upgrading does not remove the old manually install drivers. I had to go into programs and features and remove them. Then after several mins, windows 10 detected the hardware and installed it's own driver.
On this, I have chosen to not install any drivers in my image because all of my gear has detected the network by default on install.
I then let Windows 10 down load whatever it thinks is right after that.
I do the same for typical installs, but the OP specifically says Windows 10 doesn't have the driver for his new laptop.
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@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
something I discovered yesterday, upgrading does not remove the old manually install drivers. I had to go into programs and features and remove them. Then after several mins, windows 10 detected the hardware and installed it's own driver.
On this, I have chosen to not install any drivers in my image because all of my gear has detected the network by default on install.
I then let Windows 10 down load whatever it thinks is right after that.
I do the same for typical installs, but the OP specifically says Windows 10 doesn't have the driver for his new laptop.
I would not modify my standard image. Just keep that driver someplace.
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@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
something I discovered yesterday, upgrading does not remove the old manually install drivers. I had to go into programs and features and remove them. Then after several mins, windows 10 detected the hardware and installed it's own driver.
On this, I have chosen to not install any drivers in my image because all of my gear has detected the network by default on install.
I then let Windows 10 down load whatever it thinks is right after that.
I do the same for typical installs, but the OP specifically says Windows 10 doesn't have the driver for his new laptop.
I would not modify my standard image. Just keep that driver someplace.
Someplace? like on a USB stick, not having a NIC makes getting some place kinda hard. I suppose anything non driver related I'd be OK with not bothering, but once you find that NICs aren't working regularly, it's time to update the image.
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@BRRABill said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
@Dashrender said
So you never enter the key? and Windows 10 wasn't previously upgraded on this machine and then rolled back? i.e. Windows 10 has NEVER been installed on this machine before?
Hmmm, now that you mention it, maybe I did install Win10 on it before.
But I think I have done it before. On my own machine in fact.
I will retract until I am 100% sure.
I had a reason to set up a new VM today, and used a Windows 8 key to do a fresh install of Windows 10.
So I think it does indeed work.
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@BRRABill said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
@BRRABill said in Windows 10 Upgrade - Small Office Domain - Win 7 Pro OEM Licenses (~100 Machines):
@Dashrender said
So you never enter the key? and Windows 10 wasn't previously upgraded on this machine and then rolled back? i.e. Windows 10 has NEVER been installed on this machine before?
Hmmm, now that you mention it, maybe I did install Win10 on it before.
But I think I have done it before. On my own machine in fact.
I will retract until I am 100% sure.
I had a reason to set up a new VM today, and used a Windows 8 key to do a fresh install of Windows 10.
So I think it does indeed work.
It works as long as your Windows 10 media is r1511. Prior versions would not work or activate on an old key until updated to r1511.
