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UAEU Windows 10 upgrade Project
Windows 10 is running on more than 400 Million Devices in 192 different countries, definitely it is one of the most successful product
from Microsoft.
That why we are aiming to join the success story, UAEU has start a journey to upgrade all it client devices to windows 10, this Aim is not
easy as we have around 7000 Desktops and more than 1000 laptops.
To reach our goal we have to sharp our tools first, in order to do so UITS implemented Microsoft System Center latest version (1511)
to replace the previous version (2012) which was non-compatible with windows 10, after the server in place we have to go through a
process of client upgrade to more than 5000 register clients in our server.
Our work started with close corporation with Microsoft, on the end of May 2016, taking into consideration the obstacles
such as that not all software used in colleges will be compatible with windows 10 yet, today we reach about 1000 pc all of it
running windows 10.
As a step in the plane we did prepare all our new images for the new academic year to be based on windows
10, this will lead to that all new devices coming to the picture will be windows 10.
Not only Equipment’s needs to be sharpen our people too, in order to increase our IT
support staff level of understand to windows 10, we did arrange a windows 10 training
for about 30 of our staff, those people coming from all the colleges and units for the
university. the session was having a lot of hands on labs and scenarios and the feedback
from it was very encouraging.
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Our plans for the coming years is to finish what we start, ending by
replacing all our clients to windows 10 clients by the end of 2017
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