I also want to encourage everyone to upgrade. I never liked M$ from the beginning and I´m basically against every upgrade/update not really needed. Not to mention the spyware aspects of Win10 (and late Win7, you can mute both - enough tools out there if you don´t want to do it manually, be carefull with them though) or the "software for identity" concept.
But: the best things happened here this year technically until now were a) upgrading all computers to W10 and b) migrating from 2014 to Max 2016, period.
It´s such a huge difference in responsiveness. Solely no more waiting up to 10 seconds until that f"(§&/! render setup window or material editor appears saves so much time. Memory management seems also a bit better (I had the opportunity to compare directly before and after upgrading some farm nodes with the same scene). It reminds me of the step XP->Win7. Still have to work out a minimal render node setup (services, startups etc.) to maximize resources on slaves though.
Just do a step by step upgrade of your computers, every box may be offline for 1-3h but that´s it. After that: logon and start to work with it again. You can even throw your Win 10 installation files from the mounted ISO into the network, copy them to any temp directory on your nodes and start setup (upgrade only of course) directly from disk. Unfortunately I found no option to upgrade slaves without attaching monitor, keyboard and mouse for at least a few minutes, that would have been perfect)
Installation/upgrade goes quickly and there was literally no, I mean NO problem with any of the computers afterwards (migrated 2-3 weeks ago step by step, everything runs smooth until now). Even domain integration (ok, not talking about roaming or mandatory profiles here, but that got a mess anyway since Win7) was migrated perfectly. So just do it and put the muzzle on Win10 when done.
Good Luck
