Catherine SalscheiderSr. IS Project Manager| Overlake Hospital Medical CenterWa, United States
I will be starting a major enterprise migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in a healthcare setting. Does any one have a sample plan or timeline from a similar project? And any lessons learned to share?
As part of the departmental strategy they also used this opportunity to also provide some workers with tablet style laptops vs laptops and desktops. Thought that was pretty ingenious for the government. Saving Changes...
Andrew GordonSenior Project Manager| CitiGroupRiverview FL, United States
Hi Catherine... several years late to the post, hope what I have to say is still relevant. I led a Windows 10 migration at a major hospital network. Windows 7 to 10 on ~ 28K devices. From start of upgrades to the end, we got done in 13 months. I'm putting together a webinar to share best practices and lessons learned. That's how I came across this thread. How did your project go? Saving Changes...
Esther PhamDirector, Enterprise Service Desk| WBM TechnologiesCalgary, Alberta, Canada
Dec 03, 2018 5:39 PM
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Hi Catherine, We are deploying to 83,000 Windows 7 devices over the next two years. Let me know your direct email and I'll send you our template.
I'd also love a copy of your template, as I've been thrown into a Win10 project deploying 400 remaining devices and 400 apps in the next 2 months. Any additional detail would be super helpful, TIA! Saving Changes...
Catherine SalscheiderSr. IS Project Manager| Overlake Hospital Medical CenterWa, United States
All,
I have had a number of questions, but am just a week out of rollout and have lots of advice. If you are still working on your plans, work on your mitigations now... by device ID, user and application. Even with a year to get application upgrades done, some were not done and now we have mitigations.
We built our own Win 10 image and are rolling out thin and thick. There was a lot we had to work around, as MS assumes that every user should just go the MS Store as desired and should be an admin of their device. Not so much.
We are rolling out first with a few Horizon View pools, which will cover most of our onsite campus. We are going to let that sit for a week, then start upgrade thick devices by location. Then we will work our way off campus to our external clinics.
We are also in the process of opening two new OR rooms, moving a clinic and upgrading our Electronic Medical Record... also my project. If you have any leverage to put your organization into change freeze while you do you roll out, do so.
We are expecting about 2 month rollout, just due to competing projects and limited resources. Go day is next Monday 9/9.... send well wishes and positive thoughts! Saving Changes...
Hi Catherine, We are deploying to 83,000 Windows 7 devices over the next two years. Let me know your direct email and I'll send you our template.
Hi Christine,
I have a project to deploy Windows 10 for the healthcare industry in Saskatchewan and would greatly appreciate if i can have a copy of the template of yours.
Hi Catherine, We are deploying to 83,000 Windows 7 devices over the next two years. Let me know your direct email and I'll send you our template.
Hi Catherine, could you kindly share the plan. I am about to start on this journey and would appreciate the guidance. Saving Changes...
Catherine SalscheiderSr. IS Project Manager| Overlake Hospital Medical CenterWa, United States
Quick update. We are about 1/2 through our rollout. Areas that have been challenging, esp for those of you in healthcare:
*Nuance Dragon - some providers are fine, some are having challenges, with response time and macro command. The vendor threw it back to us figure out.
* Issues with MS products- Visio is challenging as not everyone has a license to use it yet we need to provide it in our build.
*Issues with Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. Everyone gets Reader, yet for those with Acrobat still default to using Reader.
We have had a hand full of other issues, including a major workstoppage with VMWare, but other than scheduling challenges, mostly going well. Staff have adopted well to the changes. Saving Changes...
Not sure if this is still needed but MVP Rory Monaghan has written a couple of useful Windows 10 migration guides. The first one's a checklist but there are no tick boxes, just a breakdown of the steps he takes when he does a migration.
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