Ed 5769 - Day 5

Day 5 Blog post

Today started off more or less like the others. The work scheduled for today was the installation of Windows 7 Enterprise on our 2 workstations. Before we began this task we searched for documentation that would help us to accomplish this task. I found this somewhat frustrating because it felt like I was going in circles. I tried different search terms and kept getting returns that I did not feel were useful. Things like blog posts and forum threads but not a lot that looked like technical manuals. For example PDF files with easily recognizable titles. I finally settled on the Microsoft site and I was able to locate some resources.
In the meantime my partner had inserted the Windows 7 Cds and was going through the preliminary installation process. Once that was complete we installed 23 updates then had to located device drivers for our Dell Optiplex 755. These were found on the Dell website, downloaded and installed. A reboot completed the process.
Finally, one last check for updates revealed that there were 5 “important” updates to be installed. We installed those and I could not help but notice that it seemed to take a long time.
The final step is to copy files from our workstations to our file server and vice versa. In order to do this we had to bring up a cmd prompt and enable the administrator accounts. Once this was done I was able to browse to our shared folder and placed a folder in there called “I created this folder on July 8 as a test.” We were able to locate this folder on the shared folder from the other workstation so we are confident the process was completed.