Windows 7 Installation Flowchart

Fresh install or
YES
upgrade?
Start Here While Windows 7
permits an upgrade
option from Windows
The path to Windows 7 has Many systems purchased Check XP and Vista, it is
some key decision that will recently have been Vista- requirements at: always a better
determine how the ready, but verify requirements http:// practice to do a new
upgrade will proceed. New hardware? NO
against Windows 7 system windows.microsoft.com/ installation.
en-us/windows7/
requirements. products/system- UPGRADE
requirements

Determine a licensing
This is the most Run Upgrade
strategy
straightforward Interactive DVD Advisor: http://
installation process, installation www.microsoft.com/
Click windows/windows-7/
here follow this link to start
the flowchar for get/upgrade-
Click FRESH
interactive installation. advisor.aspx INSTALL
here For every situation,
the Upgrade Advisor
takes a look at the
Interactive install
system and gives a
Develop user data Click Windows Deployment report if the PC will
Here
protection strategy Services (WDS) run Windows 7.

This is the new name of WDS

Remote Installation Services,
Click
Click
Here and offers functionalities such
here as streamed installation, Which method is Determine
dynamic driver provisioning right for you? installation method
and boot from .VHD file
functionality. Windows 7 has a
number of
Map out
installation methods,
policies
including automated
Automated desktop deployment options.
Windows Automated MDT can be done with MDT (and can
WAIK be used for Windows Server
More Installation Kit (WAIK)
info 2008 R2 deployments)
Larger scale automated
installations and
deployments can be
Microsoft Deployment Click
done with the WAIK. here
Toolkit (MDT)
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From Select custom

page 1 Select language Read and accept install Prepare drive (if
Boot from DVD Click Install Now
and local license agreement (Or Upgrade - not needed)
recommended)

Additional steps
such as extend or This can be data Drive actions
Format as desired YES
delete operations destructive! required?
may be required.
If any existing partitions are
present, you may want to
YES - NO DISK PRESENT - NEED DRIVERS preserve them. Further, you
NO
may want to create a
Obtain drivers from OEM dedicated partition or drive for
if not native during the the operating system and
install. It may be possible Load drivers Click Next
to update the Windows
allocate another for user data
native driver later with (My Documents).
Windows Update or via
OEM drivers.

Have drivers on floppy or

USB for easy passage to This may be
the installation program. skipped at this
point, refer to
licensing
discussion on
first page.
Windows install
Enter first Enter the Set first username
Click Next will progress from Enter product key
username computer name password and hint
DVD
This is the
computer's
NetBIOS name This may be over-written
subsequently by Group
Policy or management
software.

Windows 7 installation Select date, time Select option for

complete and time zone Windows Update
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For organizations that have WDS
skipped Windows Vista, now is
the time to invest in a fully
automated deployment
mechanism if not already in
place. Windows 7 offers three
main solutions for
deployments.
Windows 7 Deployment Center resources on TechNet
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349337(WS.10).aspx
WAIK
If the user state migration tool was
a standard practice point, the
WAIK deployment model may
make sense. WAIK makes sense
for custom configurations where a
full array of options are required for
deployments.
The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
(MDT) 2010 product is totally new
MDT from previous versions to support
the next generations of Windows
operating systems.
WDS deployments of WIM
images or virtual hard disks as
files used for OS deployments.
Multicast streams now allow
clients to receive deployment
images quicker. WDS now
offers dynamic driver
management. This keeps
drivers in a central repository,
outside of the image.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791.aspx
If the user state migration tool was
a standard practice point, the
WAIK deployment model may
make sense. WAIK makes sense
for custom configurations where a
full array of options are required for
deployments.
MDT offers additional features
such as sequenced installations of
other packages, including
Microsoft Office. MDT also has
integration with System Center for
additional managment integration.
This mechanism has desktop
administrators making images
(WIM) files that are accessible
to systems by mechanisms
that include a WinPE boot
disk.
MDT Homepage
The WAIK toolkit works with other MDT willl be the best bet
tools such as MDT, MAP and the for mid-size and some
Microsoft Application Compatibility enterprise configurations.
Toolkit. Small environments would
benefit from MDT
deployments as well.
MDT 2010 also supports PowerShell, BitLocker
and the new hard-link migration feature. Hard-
link snapshots a users data locally (not copying
back and forth over the network) and reverts it
after the installation is complete.
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Licensing
Give full thought to
the licensing XP Downgrade Potential downgrade
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10265750-56.html
situation for required? issues
Windows 7

For volume license

Multiple Activation Key
(MAK) or Key Management
Server (KMS)?
customers, these are
the two realistic http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/
deployment scenarios ProgramInfo.aspx?displaylang=en&sGuid=ccde6a30-24b6-
4077-b4a0-4bddb10c74d5
for Windows 7
licensing.

User State Migration http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/

Obtain WAIK
User Prepare migration of Tool is now part of the details.aspx?FamilyID=f1bae135-4190-4d7c-b193-
state documentation 19123141edaa&displaylang=en
user state and data. Windows Automated
Installation Kit (WAIK)
for Windows 7 Features include:
Out-of-band solutions migrating user profiles
could include and data to other
established prodecures systems, and the hard-
of moving user data. link migration.

Decide on whether or
A number of new policy
not to expose this
Policy decisions should be
notes WinXP Mode feature. Application
planned before
Available? compatibility
Windows 7 is rolled
requirements may
out.
dictate the answer.

Group policy Determine which new

changes features in Group http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
dd367853(WS.10).aspx
Policy (if Active
Directory is updated) to
use