XP to Windows 7 Upgrade Scenario - Hardlink Migration
With Window 7, Microsoft provides a direct upgrade path only from Windows Vista, not allowing a similar scenario when it comes down to Windows XP.
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19.4.2009 XP to Windows 7 Upgrade Scenario - Hardlink Migration
With Window 7, Microsoft provides a direct upgrade path only from Windows Vista, not allowing a similar scenario when it comes down to Windows XP.
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18.4.2009 XP to Windows 7 Upgrade Scenario - Hardlink Migration
With Window 7, Microsoft provides a direct upgrade path only from Windows Vista, not allowing a similar scenario when it comes down to Windows XP.
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18.4.2009 XP to Windows 7 Upgrade Scenario - Hardlink Migration
With Window 7, Microsoft provides a direct upgrade path only from Windows Vista, not allowing a similar scenario when it comes down to Windows XP.
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19.4.2009 XP to Windows 7 Migration
As far as the great majority of users are concerned, Windows Vista was the greatest flop in Microsoft history and few points of view dare to contradict this.
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29.9.2009 ADMT v3 Migration Guide
This guide explains how to use the Active Directory Migration Tool version 3 (ADMT v3) to restructure your operating environment.
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24.10.2006 Microsoft Makes Vista Migration Tools Available
Microsoft offers six free tools for corporate users to assess, plan, test, and deploy Windows Vista.
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24.2.2007 Vista SP1 fails to spark migration
Microsoft's latest efforts to persuade customers to upgrade to its much-maligned Vista operating system have met with a cool response from users.
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29.3.2008 Microsoft Streamlines the Migration from XP SP3 to Vista SP1
Following the availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft seems keen of throwing its entire weight behind its latest Windows client.
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9.7.2008Dell's new approach to the Vista migration problem
According to at least one Dell official, despite recent debacles with SP1, the customer migration to Windows Vista continues undaunted. A new Dell
Client Migration Solution, unveiled this week, includes services and tools designed to ease the migration burden...
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29.03.2008Microsoft postpones live VM migration for Hyper-V two more years
At a virtualization product launch today, Microsoft give a long-delayed demo of Hyper-V live migration, but then went on to slate the feature's
eventual release for the next edition of Windows Server -- which isn't due until 2010...
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09.09.2008The Long Haul: One Company's Migration to Vista
No one likes to move. Whether its to a new home or a new operating system, a move is fraught with tedious chores and the prospect of facing unknown
territory.
For many in corporate IT right now, the move thats looming is the migration to Microsofts Vista operating system. Some
are wondering whether the benefits of such a move will outweigh the difficulty. Fortunately, paying attention to your deployment plan can head off
confusion, aggravation and unnecessary headaches.
And while coming up with a deployment plan for a full-on operating system
migration isnt a lightweight project, its not as difficult as you might be thinking.
Unisys is in the middle of a 30,000-seat
migration to Vista, Office 2007 and Systems Management Server. In the past 15 months, weve learned some lessons that may make your migration easier.
Depending on your stage of migration, you may find any or all of these lessons helpful. These lessons fall into seven areas...
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30.01.2008IBM denies internal plans of 'mass migration to Macs'
An IBM spokesperson today denied published reports of what he termed "mass migration" to Apple Macs at his company, claiming the only point of
the test is to try to make IBM software products run well on Mac OS...
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18.04.2008SQL Server Migration Assistant
(SSMA) for Oracle V2.0
Released
Once upon a time,
migrating from an Oracle
database to SQL Server was a
challenge for even the most
seasoned database
administrator. Now, the SSMA
offers a complete suite of
tools to help you automate all
phases of the migration
process. SSMA enables you to
migrate from Oracle to
Microsoft SQL Server quickly,
easily and
accurately.
As you probably know,
Microsoft recently launched a
tool called SQL Server
Migration Assistant (SSMA). It
allows an easy migration of
Oracle databases to SQL
Server, focusing on
automatically converting
PL/SQL to T-SQL. Hundreds of
companies around the world
have been successfully using
SSMA to get off Oracle. Among
those you'll find Motorola,
Sony Ericsson, Dow,
Simon&Schuster, Atento, Sonata
Software, and many others.
SSMA typically automates 80%
of the code conversion, which
greatly reduces the time and
the cost of the migration. And
what's really important -
SSMA is a free
download!
Using
SSMA, the time, cost, and risk
associated with migrating to
SQL Server are greatly
reduced, which increases the
likelihood of a successful
project. This enables your
team to take advantage of SQL
Server's superior developer
productivity, scalability, and
security, as well as the
industry's lowest total cost
of ownership (TCO)...
winbeta.org - 11.11.2005
Windows 7 Migration from Windows XP
Jeff Alexander: Windows 7 has some great tools for migration from previous operating systems. Some that come to mind are Deployment Imaging and
Service Management (DISM), mounting VHDs natively in the operating system and User State Migration. But one of the best features in my opinion and
many of my mates in the community is the ability to boot natively to a VHD. This gives you flexibility in your migration scenarios and is one way you
can preserve your settings from the previous OS installation.
Dugie who is
based in Brisbane has done a great
article on how to go from having Windows XP installed to having Windows 7 installed in the primary partition with Windows XP encapsulated into a
VHD. This can then be mounted in the OS and used later if needed in something like Virtual PC...
winbeta.org - 23.03.2009
Windows Server 2008: IT Migration, Deployment and Best Practices
The latest release of Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 has many IT managers discovering new virtualization capabilities, Web resources, and security
and management enhancements. This month, Kevin McCully (WebFeat) and Loïc Calvez (Lafarge North America) join our hosts Ruth Morton and Rick Claus to
discuss the IT benefits of Windows Server 2008, keys to a successful deployment, and migration best practices.
winbeta.org - 03.09.2008
Google: Leave No E-Mail Behind
A new API lets programmers write tools that shuttle e-mail data from Microsoft Outlook to Google Apps.
Google has added another
weapon to its arsenal to help programmers move data from the productivity applications of Microsoft and others.
Launched Nov. 15,
the Google Apps Email Migration API is an application programming interface that lets software developers create tools that can move e-mail from any
data source to Google Apps' Premier, Education or Partner editions.
The new software opens up e-mail migration to the broadest
range of possibilities and builds on an e-mail migration tool Google launched June 25 that lets administrators move e-mail from their IMAP mail
systems to Google Apps.
winbeta.org - 16.11.2007
Mainframe Migration Alliance Passes 100-Member Milestone
As organizations migrate from
mainframes, Windows solution
ecosystem flourishes...
microsoft.com/presspass - 29.05.2007
VMware offers migration
freebie
VMware, whose software
lets a single x86 computer run
multiple operating systems
simultaneously, is offering
its Physical to Virtual (P2V)
migration tool free to
customers who buy an on-site
consulting service called the
P2V Migrations
Jumpstart.
The P2V tool lets a
computer's configuration be
moved from an ordinary server
to VMware's virtual machine
software foundation. One of
VMware's competitors, SWsoft,
added its own Virtuozzo P2V
tool in
August.
Virtual
machine software, by letting a
server gracefully run more
tasks at once, can increase a
computer's efficiency. VMware
dominates the market for x86
servers, but also faces
competition from Microsoft and
open-source Xen. ..
winbeta.org - 08.09.2005
In the great Web migration, are enough advertisers following along?
Now that more consumers are viewing video online -- as opposed to watching traditional TV -- why isn't advertising catching up faster? Experts
believe there are still some creative strategies yet to be discovered...
betanews.com - 31.01.2008
Microsoft Partners Embracing Server Virtualization
Microsoft partners are eagerly
anticipating the new features
of Windows Server 2008, which
include network access
protection, terminal services,
Bitlocker, and beefed up
Active Directory services.
But for many
partners, the virtualization
features of the next Windows
Server are the biggest game
changer.
"Virtualization is the
next big thing and it's what
makes utility computing
possible. In addition to
allowing you to deliver backup
and disaster recovery
solutions, it also lends
itself to hardware
portability," said David
Sobel, CEO of Evolve
Technologies, a Fairfax,
Va.-based solution provider.
What Windows Server
2008 won't have, at least not
initially, is live migration.
Live migration, part of the
VMware and Xen-based
virtualization platforms,
enables users to quickly and
easily migrate virtual
machines from one system to
another system. ..
winbeta.org - 19.07.2007
AMD and Red Hat are chased by Microsoft on VM live migration
It's a feature which could be ubiquitous in more data centers if it could just get out of the labs: the ability to move running virtual machines
between platforms with next-to-zero downtime. Now, it's being done cross-platform...
betanews.com - 20.11.2008
Microsoft Updates Lotus Notes
Migration Tools
The company hopes to lure
Notes users to Microsoft
collaboration software...
pcworld.com - 19.01.2006
Vista SP1 fails to spark migration
Microsoft's latest efforts to persuade customers to upgrade to its much-maligned Vista operating system have met with a cool response from users.
Historically, Microsoft's first service pack for one of its marquee products – such as Windows – provides the impetus for users to
upgrade. As Gartner analyst, Stephen Kleynhans recently noted, customers see SP1 as the sign that the OS has reached maturity and is ready for
enteprise deployment.
But even the offer of free support for using installing Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and tools to lower implementation
cost, the user response has been one of stony indifference. Vista SP1 includes a number of fixes for bugs that have plagued the operating system, as
well as improved support for drivers. It initially became available to download from Microsoft's website and will be included as part of the
Window's Update feature from mid-April.
neowin.net - 28.03.2008
Q&A: Microsoft Courts Lotus Switchers with New Migration Tools
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Chris Capossela outlines new resources designed to help customers transition to Microsofts unified communications
and collaboration (UC&C) platform and the impact this business is having on the companys bottom line...
microsoft.com/presspass - 23.01.2008
Intel isn't saying 'no' or 'yes' to Vista completely
There may not ever be a planned, collective migration of Intel's company clients to Windows Vista. But as Intel told BetaNews today, there doesn't
have to be, since IT can make upgrade decisions on a case-by-case basis...
betanews.com - 26.06.2008
Vista's Bad Rap and the Adoption Gap
News Analysis. Not to be outdone by last week's dismal Gartner analysis of Windows Vista,
today Forrester Research heaped on its own grim perspective.
Forrester whacked Vista in not one but two reports: "Building The Business Case For Windows Vista: Five Reasons To Start
Your Company's Migration Soon" and "Lessons Learned From
Early Adopters Of Windows Vista: How Businesses Can Overcome The Most Common Migration Challenges."
winbeta.org - 17.04.2008
Slow death planned for Sun's Java IDE biz
The release of the 6.0 version of the Sun Microsystems-sponsored, open-source NetBeans IDE last week sounded the death knell for two other Sun-spawned
development tools: Java Studio Enterprise and Java Studio Creator.
As reported, Sun plans to fold the functionality of the
two IDEs into NetBeans and "encourage" users of those tools to switch to their more sophisticated sibling via a migration program.
Even with a migration path in place, though, Sun won't be dropping the Studio Enterprise and Creator users like hot rocks, Sun's NetBeans
technology evangelist Gregg Sporar told The Register .
winbeta.org - 20.12.2007
Study: Linux and Windows Costs
Equal
This morning, Microsoft touted
a study it commissioned from
independent analyst Mercer
Management Consulting, which
made the case that companies
that implement migration
programs away from UNIX
systems now tend to choose
Windows over Linux...
betanews.com - 26.09.2006
