Upgrade Vista with Technet question

[robro]

I have three Vista machines currently, two are running Vista Business
from the Action Pack, one is running an OEM copy of Vista Home
Premium. I just subscribed to downloadable Technet and would like to
understand the easiest way to upgrade these three machines to
Ultimate. It's my understanding that Technet will allow me to upgrade
up to 10 machines (much like the Action Pack license)?

The easiest upgrade path seems to involve a Vista upgrade CD which is
generally procured through buying the upgrade via Windows Anytime
Upgrade (via Control Panel), but since I'm not buying anything, I know
of no other way to acquire that particular upgrade CD.

Do I want to just download the Ultimate DVD and perform an install, or
is there a cleaner way?

Thanks.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Visit the TechNet Subscriber web site and then
all you do is download the Windows Vista DVD ISO file and
record it properly to a DVD, then obtain the Vista Ultimate
product key. You begin the upgrade process while booted to
the existing Vista desktop and insert the DVD to upgrade.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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I have three Vista machines currently, two are running Vista Business
from the Action Pack, one is running an OEM copy of Vista Home
Premium. I just subscribed to downloadable Technet and would like to
understand the easiest way to upgrade these three machines to
Ultimate. It's my understanding that Technet will allow me to upgrade
up to 10 machines (much like the Action Pack license)?

The easiest upgrade path seems to involve a Vista upgrade CD which is
generally procured through buying the upgrade via Windows Anytime
Upgrade (via Control Panel), but since I'm not buying anything, I know
of no other way to acquire that particular upgrade CD.

Do I want to just download the Ultimate DVD and perform an install, or
is there a cleaner way?

Thanks.

 

[robro]

Thanks, that's the route I took, but I got the impression that with
the
upgrade CD, it was just a matter of quickly adding the missing
elements
to the OS. I have the Ultimate DVD that I downloaded doing an upgrade
now, but it looks like it may take a couple of hours. I just wanted
to
make sure I wasn't missing a quicker way to do this.

 

[robro]

My upgrade finally completed. Only took 2.5 hours on a quad processor
Q6600 G0 w/4 gig and a WEI of 5.9.