Flawless Windows 7 Installation

[mssalvatore]

Spike

Objective

Test the installation of Infection Monkey on Windows 7.

Scope

The below tests are not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, they are smoke tests to verify the basic functionality of Infection Monkey on Windows 7.

• [ ] Infection monkey installs without errors or warnings.
• [ ] Monkey Island starts without errors or warning.
• [ ] No additional system changes (dependencies, settings, etc) are required to successfully install and run Monkey Island
• [ ] Monkey agent can be started locally
• [ ] Monkey agent successfully propagates to a victim machine
• [ ] Monkey Island receives telemetry and other expected data from monkey agents

Output

The output of this spike is a set of GitHub issues (bugs). When these bugs are resolved, we should be able to claim to have a flawless installation experience on Windows 7.

[mssalvatore]

As Microsoft no longer supports Windows 7, we can drop windows 7 support. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-support-ended-on-january-14-2020-b75d4580-2cc7-895a-2c9c-1466d9a53962