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Lectern Computer Upgrades Scheduled to Begin December 14

Posted on: November 24th, 2015 by

On Monday, December 14, Classroom Technology will begin an effort to upgrade Windows-based lectern computers from Windows 7 Professional to Windows 10 Professional.  The effort will also include upgrading the memory and hard drives to enhance the overall performance.   In IT, several of us have been using Windows 10 since it was released in summer 2015, and we expect you will like it as much as we do. Our goal is to configure the computers, so that Windows 7 users can quickly adapt to the change.

The list of classroom technology rooms impacted by the Windows 10 upgrade is shown below.  To avoid impact to Wintersession classes, we will prioritize the work so upgrades in Wintersession classrooms will occur in December.  Further, we plan to complete all lectern computer upgrades before the beginning of the spring semester.

Anderson 21 Barnard Observatory 105 Bishop 101
Bishop 103 Bishop 105 Bishop 107
Bishop 112 Bishop 209 Bishop 324
Bondurant 107E Bondurant 111E Bondurant 114E
Bondurant 116W Bondurant 204C Brevard 134
Brevard 138 Brevard 235 Bryant 111
Bryant 200 Bryant 207 Bryant 209
Carrier 119 Carrier 211 Carrier 220
Coulter 200 Coulter 211 Coulter 422
Falkner 207 Fed-Ex Starnes Center 207 Guyton 115
Guyton 116 Guyton 214 Guyton 216
Guyton 313 Guyton Annex 119 Guyton Annex 207
Guyton Annex 208 Guyton Annex 209 Howrey 221
Hume 101 Hume 106 Hume 107
Hume 109 Hume 111 Hume 113
Hume 201 Hume 215 Hume 221
Hume 230 Isom 303 Jackson Avenue Center G08
Lamar 107 Lamar 125 Lamar 126
Lamar 127 Lamar 129 Lamar 130
Lamar 131 Lamar 132 Lamar 133
Lamar 143 Lamar 207 Lamar 208
Lamar 212 Lamar 214 Lamar 310
Lamar 315 Lamar 320 Lamar 321
Lamar 326 Lamar 327 Lamar 404
Lamar 406 Lamar 407 Lamar 411
Lamar 413 Lamar 515 Lamar 518
Lamar 519 Lamar 555 Lenoir 107
Library 106D Library 106E Lott 113
Lott 213 Meek 120 Meek 138
Minor B05C Music 123 Music 148
Music 153 Music 155 Peabody 202
Peabody 206 Peabody 209 Residential College North 008
Residential College North 113 Residential College South 008 Residential College South 113
Shoemaker 114 Shoemaker 303 Shoemaker 323
Shoemaker 401 Shoemaker 408 Turner 113
Turner 205 Turner 239 Turner 241
Turner 243 Turner Center 246 Weir 106
Weir 107 Weir 225 Weir 235

Unlike individual computer upgrades, Classroom Technology plans to perform a clean install of Windows 10.   After the Windows 10 installation, Microsoft Office 2013 will be installed along with commonly used applications, such as Firefox, Chrome, Adobe Acrobat Reader, etc.

To prepare, we are asking impacted instructors to please take the following steps.

  1. Transfer all personal files from the Classroom Technology machines to an external source.  We recommend UM Box, UM Google Drive or an external drive.
  2. Get up to speed with Windows 10 using these online training videos from Microsoft.  If you can take monotone voices without falling asleep, this 30 minute video does a nice job of summarizing Windows 10 features.
  3. Attend one of our Windows 10 training courses during finals week.  Check back in January, because we’ll add more classes the week before the spring semesters begin.

If you have questions or need additional support, please contact Jimmy Ball or umct@olemiss.edu.