Windows 7 Administration (70-680) Part 1: Install and Deploy
Part 1 of 4 in the Windows 7 Administration (70-680) series. This in-depth course will teach you the essentials of Windows 7 administration.
What you'll learn
Part 1 of 4 in the Windows 7 Administration (70-680) series. This in-depth course will teach you the essentials of Windows 7 administration. You'll walk away able to address deployment challenges and optimize Windows 7 for your environment, including addressing hardware and software compatibility, protecting Windows 7 systems, optimizing performance for remote users, best practices for granting secure access to network resources and managing file and folder permissions. To get the most out of this course, you should have a solid understanding of networking, and some experience with systems administration will be helpful but is not required.
Table of contents
- Introduction 4m
- Identifying Windows 7 Requirements 3m
- Running the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Tool 4m
- Upgrade and Migration Limitations 4m
- Windows 7 Installation Options and Types 3m
- Performing a Clean Installation of Windows 7 15m
- Upgrading Windows Vista to Windows 7 13m
- Dual Booting Windows 7 4m
- Windows XP to Windows 7 Dual Boot Walkthrough 13m
- Migrating User Profiles and Data to Windows 7 15m
- What We Covered 1m
- Introduction 4m
- Windows 7 Deployment Enhancements 4m
- Deployment Types, Images and Deployment Tools and Options 7m
- Capture and Deployment Process Overview and Prerequisites 7m
- Building and Validating the Answer File 16m
- Building and Generalizing the Reference Installation 7m
- Creating Bootable Windows PE Media 7m
- Capturing the Reference Image and Saving to a Network Share 7m
- Deploying to a Target Computer via Network Share 10m
- User State Migration Tool and Automated Installation 2m
- What We Covered 2m
- Key Terms and Supporting Resources 1m
- Introduction 2m
- Using Device Manager 6m
- Using the System Information Utility 6m
- Understanding Drivers and Installation Methods 7m
- Managing Device and Driver Security 9m
- The Driver Verifier Utility 4m
- Managing Hardware Installation Policies with Group Policy 10m
- Adding Device Drivers to the Driver Store 4m
- Monitoring USB Devices 4m
- What We Covered 1m
About the author
Scott is the Founder and Managing Consultant of THE 1610 Group. By night (and sometimes weekends, lunch, and everything in between!) Scott writes technical articles for CNet's TechRepublic, TechTarget, and TechGenix. For TechRepublic, for whom he has written hundreds of articles, Scott writes weekly in the Servers and Storage area, monthly in the IT Leadership area and in other areas on an ad hoc basis. Scott also writes for TechTarget's SearchCIO-Midmarket site and is the lead author for Tec... more