Don Anderson said:
I have a user who arrived recently from Japan. His laptop has XP Home
Japanese. The problem is that when mapping a drive the backslash changes
to a
Yen symbol so he can not map drives to the file server.
We have a site license for Microsoft OS so I have Vista Enterprise
available
to install.
Question 1. Is it possible to upgrade from XP Home to Vista Enterprise?
Question 2. If I upgraded from the Japanese version of XP Home to Vista
Enterprise would Vista Enterprise automatically use the Japanese language
pack?
Question 3. After such an upgrade, would we be able to switch Vista
Enterprise from Japanese to English so he can enter the backslash in the
map
network drive dialog? After all, that would be the goal of the whole
exercise.
Thanks,
Don
Hello Don,
Presumably your Vista Enterprise is in English, in which case then no, you
will not be able to upgrade your user's laptop. You can't upgrade from one
language to another.
You may be able to get a Japanese Enterprise DVD, check with your
reseller/account manager, however I'm not sure if upgrading from XP Home to
Enterpise is supported or not. (I may be able to test using Virtual PC
later - I've never tried upgrading anything to Enterprise as yet).
You should be able to get the MUI language packs for Enterprise as you
qualify under your Volume License for them.