Windows 7 has six different editions, ranging from a starter edition, through Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions. It’s necessary to use the Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate variants to join a domain and work in a corporate environment.
Windows 8 only has four different editions, Windows RT, which operates on the ARM architecture found in mobile devices, Windows 8 (base), Win 8 Professional, and Win 8 Enterprise. The Pro and Enterprise variants can be used in a corporate environment. Windows 8.1 has the same variants as Windows 8 and features much of the same features and restrictions as Windows 8.
The lesson then went on the discuss user migration between the various flavors of Windows. The system administration is a great deal of control over what is transferred and how that processes is managed.
Another big part of this lesson was the use of virtualization, which is the process of using one or more virtual machines from a physical computer. This has many possible benefits, such as being able to be used to leverage existing hardware to run tasks as if there were more than one machine available. It’s also possible to run a virtual machine with a different operating system than the one installed on the physical PC.
Another cool virtualization wrinkle is the use of virtual hard drives (VHD’s), which is a special file type that fools the machine into thinking that this file is a separate hard drive. It’s possible to use a fixed size, or a dynamic size that gets larger as more space is needed. This virtualization operates in much the same fashion as the virtualization implemented in Windows Server 2012.
Another fascinating lesson that I will be able to put to good use in my career. Looking forward to more next week!
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