Merlinos Mills is a company that produces flours and grains for grocery stores. It owns mills and distribution centers in the northwestern and midwestern United States. The headquarters in Bend, Oregon employs more than 400 people, most of whom use computers. Also, the headquarters has 28 servers, all running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. The company employees use a full range of operating systems, including Windows 2000 Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X Tiger.
The management of Merlinos Mills wants each department to upgrade to the newer operating systems. Also, they are very concerned about network security, and they want to install new servers and upgrade their current servers to operating system versions that take better advantage of security features. Your role in the process is to work with each department to help ensure that the installations and upgrades go smoothly.
Determining Preliminary Steps
The master distribution center in Bend, Oregon has 42 people, including nine Windows 2000 users, 22 people using Windows XP Professional, and 11 people using Windows Vista Business Edition. The distribution center is slated to upgrade its computers to Windows 7 Professional. What preliminary steps should be taken before starting the upgrades on these computers? In general, are there any problems involved in upgrading to Windows 7 from each of these operating systems?
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