Anyone rolled out Windows 7 yet?

Much like a lot of places we skipped Vista too.

We are evaluating Windows 7, but we have a lot of back end work to do before we can roll it out. We use ZENWorks which needs to be upgraded to the latest version to support Windows 7.

And apart from that we have a disaster recovery project kicking off very soon, so I'm not going to be able to spend much time on other back-end developments.

The most compelling reason for W7 right now for me is the Problem Steps Recorder. We don't need it so much for it's intended purpose as we have remote access to all machines. But for writing user documentation it will be an enormous time saver.
 
We skipped Vista but it looks like we're moving over to 64-bit Windows 7 for our standard staff desktop and all new machines/laptops have to be 64-bit compatible.

We had a lot of help from Microsoft over the summer for our backbone as we're moving from a Netware NDS setup to AD so they've managed to persuade our IT Services people that it's worth the move without too much interference from our accountants.
 
Whenever we update our desktops I'm sure we'll move over to 7. We're licensed for it so least haven't got to worry about that.
 
We only have <20 machines running Windows 7 fine in our 2008 domain, we have several fixes/ tweaks as we have not upgraded to 2008 R2 yet. Mass rollout of a few thousand starts next year in jan
 
Well i seem to have found today that microsoft really seem to have done a half assed job of group policys for server2008R2/Windows 7

Working in a school means the kids accounts have to be locked stupidly tight to stop them doing anything we don't want them to from every angle possible, so far i've had to chop apart the registry hive, deleting and adding things in a mandatory profile in order to get half the restrictions which should be nice straight forward group policys to work.

Even something as simple and basic as the desktop wallpaper redirect GPO doesn't actually work...at all! (after 45minutes of trying to get this simple thing working i find that it's a bug and microsoft have known about it for near 2 months)
 
really mrbios? our student win XP GPO works nearly perfectly on 7, including wallpaper redirect... *shrugs*
 
Jackal most of hte GPO will work however there are some that will not work with windows 7 at all in a 2003/ 2008 domain and you need R2 to utilise them extra GPO. you can however get around it with registry/ scripts but i prefer GPO hence the move to upgrade our domain.

Windows 2008 domain works fine with all the standard stuff and there is no mess ups etc, either it works or doesnt and more than likely the 'new' stuff wont until upgrade.
 
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