Win 7 Early Adopters' Forum. Twynham School Presentation

Windows 7 Early Adopters’ Forum
Microsoft Reading 7th October 2009

Twynham Team
Dave Coleman (Network Manager)
Neil Hodgkinson (Assistant Network Manager)
Chris McKinley (Web Developer/SQL Admin)
Mike Herrity (Lord of all he surveys)

Strategy
Deployment
Success
Failure
Top Tips
“What would I do better next time”
Presentation Contents

Twynham Strategy
Mature network
Profile based user accounts
Needed to change to policy based
Used the RC of windows 7 to setup Group Policies
Only student workstations and laptops
Staff laptops all reinstalled by January 2010 (currently running Vista)
Because of release date very little time - 2 week window of opportunity

Deployment
Could have use WDS, SCCM but time a limiting factor
Used Ghost as we have a proven track record
Got the job done

Success
Profiles gone. Totally policy driven
Better printer deployment now works previously issues when using XP
Students love it. Zero adoption problems (Probably because they use Vista at home??)
Group policy preferences now no problem and offer us much in the future
NO driver issues

Challenges
After initial teething problems all good
Start menu
My docs sync issues
Offline files
2008 R2 and Windows 7 better together
Only just scratched the surface
Bit locker more secure for staff laptops (Ticks some BECTA boxes)
App locker
Search
Direct Access with Server 2008 R2

Failures
3rd party software solution which should have been done through group policy
Applying group policy forced
Pushed min spec to the limit

Top Tips
DON’T BE FIRST or learn from networking
Test login speeds and load test
Deploy RC but this could be a risky strategy

“What would I do better next time”
Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. (Franklin P. Jones)
That is why we are here so we can all answer this together and hopefully fill in this slide at the end so others can learn from our mistakes

Twynham Contacts
Dave Coleman
E-mail dave.coleman@twynhamschool.com
Twitter @davecoleman146
Neil Hodgekinson
E-mail neil@twynhamschool.com
Chris McKinley
cmc@twynhamschool.com
Twitter @crmckinley
Mike Herrity
E-Mail mike.herrity@twynhamschool.com
Twitter @mikeherrity

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