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Best way to upgrade 7 computers from Home Premium to Pro?
I have become confused reading the various licensing situations so forgive me for posting what may have been asked before.
I volunteer at a local senior center where we have 7 computers running Windows 7 Home Premium.
6 of them have identical hardware. These all have validly purchased licenses.
For various reasons, we want to upgrade to Professional (to use the security policies, etc.).
I thought we could purchase the Anytime Upgrade license for each one, and then just perform the upgrade on one of them. Then when finished, we could make an image and install that image on the other identical machines and change the product key to the Anytime Upgrade key we buy for them.
But upon reading the various tutorials here, I think the Upgrade license will only be accepted when we actually do the upgrade, so it probably won't work to change it on an image.
Can someone help clarify this and what the best way to do this might be?