From the course: Learning Windows 10 Deployment with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013
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To upgrade or wipe and reload?
From the course: Learning Windows 10 Deployment with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013
To upgrade or wipe and reload?
- To upgrade or to not upgrade? Is it really a question? Well, when we think about working with Windows 10, it's not even a question at all. You're going to most likely be doing your very first installation of Windows 10 as an upgrade, because of the nature of how Windows 10 is there, and if you think about traditional methods of how we use to deploy brand-new operating systems. You usually chose upgrade or wipe or reload, and my recommendation to most folks was, hey, do a wipe and reload. That way, you have a brand-new system, you don't have any legacy DLLs, if you're in a position where you can just wipe out a brand-new system and start over, that was what I recommended. Not that upgrades didn't work, matter of fact, upgrades worked quite well, but really, at the end of the day a lot of people said, you know what, I just want something brand-new I want it all shiny and I want that new-PC smell back, and they chose to do wipe and reload. But the nature of Windows 10 and how this is…
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