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Upgrades and migration

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Upgrades and migration

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- [Instructor] I'm about to use a term that some network administrators consider offensive. Now I'm not one to commonly use vulgar expressions in the workplace, but I feel that this one needs to be discussed. The term is in-place upgrade. Every version of Windows Workstation and Windows Server has come with a list of operating systems that you can upgrade from. Meaning if you're running a listed operating system you can install in a way that keeps all of the existing configurations, drivers, and applications, but changes to a newer version of Windows. For the most part, that list is the two previous versions of Windows Server. But doing this kind of upgrade comes with some obstacles. There is never a guarantee that the hardware and drivers supported by a previous operating system will be supported by a newer, more demanding version. Second, over a period of time most computers inherit clutter from different applications…

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