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Infrastructure Management: Step 2

Infrastructure Management

Optimize the infrastructure for deployment of new operating systems and applications.

Use the information that you have gathered about your infrastructure to optimize the network, thereby ensuring a successful deployment of the operating system and application compatibility updates. Be sure to identify any slow links or poorly performing connections to minimize any deployment issues beforehand.

The Solution Accelerator for BDD lists the steps that you can take to optimize the infrastructure in preparation for deploying a new operating system or application compatibility updates. Similarly, use the guide to determine your course of action for preparing the network environment.

Standard Edition

Provides guidance and job aids for performing software inventory manually or by using non-Microsoft software.

Standard  “Deploying” in Infrastructure Remediation Feature Team Guide, Standard Edition

Standard  “The Developing Phase” in Plan, Build, and Deploy Guide, Standard Edition

Standard  Tools used for this task include the Trey Network and Workstation Hardware Upgrades List as well as the Inventory Template, which are available in the Documents folder of the Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment Download.


Enterprise Edition

Provides guidance and job aids for performing software inventory by using SMS 2003.

Enterprise  “Deploying” in Infrastructure Remediation Feature Team Guide, Enterprise Edition

Enterprise  “The Developing Phase” in Plan, Build, and Deploy Guide, Enterprise Edition

Enterprise  Tools used for this task include the Woodgrove Network and Workstation Hardware Upgrades List and the Inventory Template, which are available in the Documents folder of the Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment Download.


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Additional Resources

Windows XP

Wireless Resources for Windows XP

Use these resources to help plan, deploy, and maintain wireless services in Windows XP. All articles are up-to-date for Service Pack 2 (SP2).

 

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