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  • 1.  Reporting on estate meeting Windows 7 requirements

    Posted Oct 28, 2009 10:46 AM
    Has anyone created any reports or custom SQL queries to report workstation compliance on Windows 7 minimum system requirements?

    If anyone has any help available would be greatly appreciated. We are looking at upgrading to Win7 and would like to better understand what hardware upgrades are required.

    Am running NS6 SP3

    Windows 7 Minimum System Requirements:
    ·         1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86)
    ·         1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit)
    ·         16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit)
    ·         DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver


  • 2.  RE: Reporting on estate meeting Windows 7 requirements

    Posted Nov 03, 2009 10:40 PM

    Although Microsoft has a list of qualifying system specs there are a ton of individual devices that are being found that do not work with windows 7.

    Your best (And most sound) bet is to grab one machine from each model you are looking to upgrade and do an install of windows 7. You can evaluate each example to determine how well windows 7 would fit into your enviornment from there much better than you could with a SQL query (Which would only look for system specs).

    It is worth mentioning that any upgrade to Windows 7 at this time is questionable. Personally, I would wait at least until SP1 before attempting to start upgrades. By that time, MS should have taken care of the first batch of bugs.



  • 3.  RE: Reporting on estate meeting Windows 7 requirements

    Posted Nov 04, 2009 04:36 AM
    We will be looking at app compatibility also, the planning and surrounding processes will be thorough and lengthy. In the first instance we want to report on hardware compliance. It may well be that we dont upgrade until SP1, or depending on how many workstations need hardware upgrading we might not upgrade at all. 


  • 4.  RE: Reporting on estate meeting Windows 7 requirements

    Posted Nov 04, 2009 12:49 PM
    in NSv6 that is uses for determining application upgrade requirements. I believe the title is for XP, but that is cosmetic. The parameters you can specify include memory, processor and harddisk size\free. See if that doesn't meet your requirements.