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Windows 10 Deployment

Hello Everybody,

I'm in the proccess to depoly Windows 10 on new Computer Systems and current Windows 7 Computers (Inplace-Upgrade) and I would like to 100% automate this deployment.

I've already read alot about this but the procedural steps are a bit confusing. One this to note here is that I don't have MS-SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager)

If you could help me out with this it would be really great (with detailed step by step instrutions)

I appreciate your help,

McKnife

I can help you with the inplace upgrade since I did that very, very often.

You will need to extract setup (the .ISO file) to a share using (for example) 7-zip. Now you have setup on this share and you can deploy the inplace upgrade by means of a scheduled task that starts a batch:

\\server\share\setup.exe /auto upgrade /dynamicupdate disable

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Executor: system
Trigger: a time that you define
And that's all. Win7 will upgrade to 10.

What I needed to assume is that you tested the compatibility of soft- and hardware. I also assume that you have a plan for distributing the win10 license keys.

PS: If you plan to update a lot of Win7 systems at the same day, you might want to add start time randomization to your task, which is possible inside task options, in order to prevent network bandwidth problems. (if you don't, all computers will try and load 4 GBs of setup data at the same time).

John

I agree with the above. You need to make sure the older systems are compatible with Windows 10. Many are, lots are not (too old). Run the Windows 10 Upgrade Advisor and see.

Are the new computers OEM Windows or are you going to replace with a Volume License?

Redhatndeb Linux_B

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Thanke you all very much McKnife and John,

They're gonna be most probably Volume License.
Yes they're all capable to handle the upgrade to Windows 10

Maybe I have forgot to mention that I have WDS 2012 R2 already. is the above command going to deploy Windows through WDS and How?
and how about the new computers?

thanks again

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Thanks McKnife -:)

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BIOS Update, thanks for this important note too.

How about the new deployments any link or resourse on how to accomplish this task (I think it has to do of course with WDS and Windows deployment toolkit) in order to automate the full installation process without user interaction.

John

Thank you and I was pleased to help you with this.