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Melbourne college in 1,100-seat Win7 migration

Uniting Church school St Leonard’s College has in the past few months completed a sizable desktop migration to Microsoft’s new flagship operating system Windows 7, in a rollout that also saw its supporting server infrastructure switched from Novell Netware to Windows Server 2008 R2.

The migration represents one of the first in what is expected to be a large wave of desktop rollouts across Australia of what analyst firm Gartner has described as a Microsoft operating system that organisations cannot afford to “skip” as they broadly did with Vista. St Leonard’s rolled out Windows 7 to about 1,100 machines in a deployment that would affect some 2,000 students.

The college’s information services officer — network, James Bannan, said in an interview this week that the stimulus to migrate the college’s desktops from their previous Windows XP platform was the need to make a choice about the way forward for its server infrastructure, which was previously based on Novell Netware.

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