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Merlinos Mills is a company that produces flours and grains for grocery stores. It owns...

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.Installing Windows 7

After considering the issues in Case Project 5-2, management has decided that the distribution center is going ahead with replacing the computers running Windows 2000 and XP, purchasing new machines and Windows 7. The Windows Vista users already have computers that can run Windows 7 for a possible upgrade. The user support person for the distribution center has not performed an installation for Windows 7. Tell her generally what to expect when performing this installation.

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