Time to learn windows 7

I think the next certification i'm going to study for is the MSTS Windows 7, config but I feel it might be a good idea to have a computer with windows 7 before I take it.

At the moment I'm thinking about just buying a brand new laptop with windows 7, but I want to know if I should go for the professional version or the home premium.

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Mojo_666

Priston wrote: »

I think the next certification i'm going to study for is the MSTS Windows 7, config but I feel it might be a good idea to have a computer with windows 7 before I take it.

At the moment I'm thinking about just buying a brand new laptop with windows 7, but I want to know if I should go for the professional version or the home premium.

You only need Pro+ if you want to join a domain, otherwise home prem will be fine.

Synthros

The Windows 7 certification (70-680) is geared toward running Windows 7 in an Enterprise environment. With that, I would definitely go with the Professional version. Home Premium does not have certain capabilities, such as being able to join a domain (and as a result, it cannot use Group Policies).

za3bour

Most laptops comes with Home Premium but I would upgrade it to Pro if you need to use features like Direct Access, Bitlocker ...etc

You can use a very nice feature called Windows Anytime Upgrade in order to do the upgrade after you purchase the laptop

Take a look here

Windows 7 Pricing Buy Install Choose Edition Features Upgrades Offers

Psoasman

Try downloading the 90-day trial of Enterprise,so you can access all the available features.

earweed

+1 I think the more advanced features are only available on enterprise/ultimate. It would probably do you good to put the Windows 7 enterprise and Server 2008 R2 as VMs and play with them together.

QHalo

za3bour wrote: »

Most laptops comes with Home Premium but I would upgrade it to Pro if you need to use features like Direct Access, Bitlocker ...etc

You can use a very nice feature called Windows Anytime Upgrade in order to do the upgrade after you purchase the laptop

Take a look here

Windows 7 Pricing Buy Install Choose Edition Features Upgrades Offers

Pro does not support BitLocker or Direct Access. The link you provided states this. Only enterprise and ultimate support those features.

za3bour

QHalo wrote: »

Pro does not support BitLocker or Direct Access. The link you provided states this. Only enterprise and ultimate support those features.

Professional does support Bitlocker but it doesn't support Bitlocker to go (which is for removable storage) as for Direct Access you are right about it.

QHalo

BitLocker Drive Encryption - Windows 7 features - Microsoft Windows
BitLocker Drive Encryption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprosecurity/thread/88b94cae-ef9e-45de-b33d-0ab5f8afe9a4

/shrug

Priston

buying a windows 7 ultimate 32-bit oem from newegg and using it on my desktop is starting to look like a better idea now. I just wish I could buy it as a 64-bit version instead, but pro tools 8 only works on 32-bit x.x

gandalph

I agree about using trial versions and if you go to this site

How to extend the Windows Server 2008 evaluation period

you can extend the trial period