Week Six
I am more than ready for vacation, and happy to be going to release a little steam. The beginning of the week was all but relaxing. The system administrator decided this was an ideal week start the entire agencies phase over to Windows 7 Enterprise and office 2010 companion suite due to so many people being gone on vacation. Guess whose laptop was the first in the Agriculture Marketing Service; yes it was mine of course. They said seeing as I am interning through Microsoft it only made sense that I should work out any bugs with the installation process, so that they can create a ghost image of the Operating System (OS) run correctly. It was anything but smooth seeing as the original hard drive was formatted in an older outdated version (FAT32) I had to format the hard drive before installing the new OS and then reinstall my entire cab of drivers, documents, programs I have been writing and training modules. I also had to reinstall all the other applications we run in the office testing the compatibility with the new OS. Let’s just say everything went all but smoothly, but after 3 installations of windows, we had the system perfected and ready for deployment. Although I was a little disheartened at first at my lack of success, I remembered that sometimes mistakes are the greatest learning experience and went forward setting up the other PCs around the department. I’ll be READY FOR VACATION when it comes :)
Justin Patterson
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