ARCHIVED: Known issues with Windows 7 at IU

Available license keys are upgrade-only.

The Windows 7 disks supplied to the IU bookstores contain upgrade-only license keys. Users must have any existing version of Windows already installed on the computer's hard drive before installing Windows 7, or else the product key will fail. This will affect Apple Boot Camp users, Windows virtual machine installations, users with a corrupt or replaced hard drive, and users who have had a hard drive wiped for security reasons.

UITS is working with Microsoft to resolve this problem.

Several Windows 7-related utilities are not yet released from beta or release candidate status. These include, but are not limited to: Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7, Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT), and Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.

As these products are released, we will update this document.

The following have been released to the public: Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7, User State Migration Tool 4.0 (part of AIK), Windows PE 3.0 (part of AIK).

Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5

The "Clone" and "Configuration" steps do not behave correctly on Windows 7 machines.

Symantec has been made aware of this issue; see Symantec's Ghost and Windows 7.

Many manufacturers do not have complete driver support for all hardware. Dell, ATI, nVidia, HP, and other vendors have partial support. Windows 7 has many built-in drivers.

Vendors will release Windows 7 drivers as they are ready. Some Windows Vista drivers may function.