Ted Roche wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
I tried downloading and
burning a DVD to use for the upgrades, and it always asks for a Registration
Key even when updating a valid installation. After it rejected 5 different
keys, three brand new and had never been used, I gave up on that approach.
What's your goal here: avoiding the 3Gb+ download for each
workstation, or doing a clean install?
I've done the latter, and didn't need to use a registration key by
wasting a lot of bandwidth:
1) Do the local "upgrade" to upgrade the existing install to Win10
2) Download the 75 Mb media tool.
3) Use the tool to download the 3Gb+ media AGAIN and create new media
for a clean install (USB tab highly recommended!) and then install the
clean version over the dirty, upgrade-in-place version.
Great question, Ted!
My goal is to get this done as easily as possible. Beyond that,
quickness and reliability are good.
I did download the upgrade tool, then the files to burn an upgrade DVD.
That's what I tried using on a few systems that I have physical access
to, and every time I tried using it, one of the very first steps was to
enter the Windows Key, which I did, and it said the key was invalid. The
last attempt, which I think was the 4th or 5th machine, I even tried
using a key that I recently purchased for building a new system, and
that was rejected as invalid. So, on my scoresheet, DVD upgrade is (1)
not easy, (2) not quick...although it is reliably failing.
Over the last few days I've upgraded 12 systems and what works best, for
me, is to either re-enable the Win10 Upgrade icon in the system tray and
use that (I had disabled the upgrade a few months back with the GWX
Control Panel from the UltimateOutsider.com) or to download the
Microsoft updater, which appears to do the same thing as the Win10
Upgrade utility that was auto-installed.
So all that to say that downloading for each workstation seems to be the
best approach for me, so far.
And, so far with the exception of Logmein needing to be uninstalled and
reinstalled, the process has been remarkably reliable and smooth,
although not fast. Most of the time is spent with modifying the new
Win10 install to remove/prevent access to various customization features
that I don't want/need end users to have (corporate environment.) I'm
seeing where using Active Directory would be a great benefit, but I
don't plan on doing this long enough to justify making the change now.
Mike
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