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nzkiwiman

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#181042 30-Sep-2015 10:51

Anyone have tips or tricks to doing enterprise testing - migrating from Win7 to Win10
So far I've done a few clean installs on both physical and virtual platforms and installed each of the apps we use in the business and see what works and what needs upgrading (a few need upgrades). Currently running through an upgrade of a cloned machine to see how upgrading works.

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#1397593 30-Sep-2015 20:59

My method has always been USMT to backup profiles, clean install of OS & applications then USMT to put the settings back on. Havent done a Win 10 migration but this has worked for my XP -> 7, XP-> 8, XP->8.1 and 7->8.1 upgrade.
Our environment is heavily policed by Group Policy so 80-90% of the settings will come back when they log in to the new machine. The only problematic ones have always been Firefox and Chrome favorites. Those ones you need either a manual backup done prior or roaming profiles (yuck). I have a clean build of Win 10 ready in our environment but like you I havent really tested a migration yet. Just a clean install.

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#1397743 1-Oct-2015 07:52

feel free to ask if there are some specific questions.

Upgrade is the recommended way rather than clean install, but obviously either way works

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#1397901 1-Oct-2015 12:18

The upgrade does seem to work a little better than a clean install - a few programs that won't install on clean, will work on the upgrade.
However some of the Microsoft management tools need to be reinstalled and there are certain applications that just don't work at all.

Working my way through guides on how to use Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer, need to look at USMT as only every heard of it

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#1397991 1-Oct-2015 13:48

Check sensitive drivers like WiFi / VPN combos are still working as expected.

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#1400044 5-Oct-2015 10:17

One small annoyance with the upgrade - it does not keep New Zealand time/date defaults
Resets them back to USA (so date is month/day/year) for each user. Quick enough to fix, but annoying

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#1402667 8-Oct-2015 20:12

nzkiwiman: One small annoyance with the upgrade - it does not keep New Zealand time/date defaults
Resets them back to USA (so date is month/day/year) for each user. Quick enough to fix, but annoying

sounds like your system locale settings are US, as I've never seen this happen to any of my machines