Tasks & Tools: Overview

Application Compatibility

Key Steps

•	Step 1: Collect and analyze the application inventory in your organization to build your application portfolio.

•	Step 2: Test your mitigation strategies to create your application mitigation packages.

•	Step 3: Resolve any outstanding compatibility issues to report compatibility mitigation to management.

•	Step 4: Deploy compatibility mitigation packages with core application deployment or after core application deployment.

Tools and Technologies

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Standard Edition

•	Virtual PC
•	Virtual Server
•	Application Compatibility Toolkit
•	Office 2003 Access Conversion Toolkit

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Enterprise Edition

•	Systems Management Server 2003

Imaging

Overview

Key Steps

•	Step 1: Build a company-standard image for deployment.

•	Step 2: Test the image in a controlled pilot program.

•	Step 3: Use the right tools and utilities to deploy the desktop image.

•	Step 4: Manage the image lifecycle.

Tools and Technologies

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Standard Edition

•	Windows Preinstallation Environment
•	Windows System Preparation Tool

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Enterprise Edition

•	Systems Management Server 2003
•	Systems Management Server 2003 Operating System Deployment Feature Pack

Infrastructure Management

Overview

Key Steps

•	Step 1: Inventory hardware assets for centralized management and research of gathered data.

•	Step 2: Optimize the infrastructure for deployment of new operating systems and applications.

•	Step 3: Employ technologies to provide for accurate and timely infrastructure-management information.

Tools and Technologies

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Standard Edition

•	Windows Management Instrumentation
•	Active Directory

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Enterprise Edition

•	Systems Management Server 2003

Deployment Process

Overview

Key Steps

Lite Touch Installation

•	Step 1: Ensure the appropriate infrastructure exists to support LTI deployments.

•	Step 2: Install the servers required to support LTI deployments.

•	Step 3: Create the appropriate Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) and Windows XP images.

•	Step 4: Deploy the operating system images to the client computers.

Zero Touch Installation

•	Step 1: Ensure the appropriate infrastructure exists to support ZTI.

•	Step 2: Create a database containing the configuration settings used to automate the Windows XP deployment.

•	Step 3: Create the appropriate Windows PE and Windows XP images by using OSD.

•	Step 4: Deploy the operating system images to the client computers.

•	Step 5: Monitor the deployment process by using the Zero Touch Installation Management Pack (ZTIMP) for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005.

Tools and Technologies

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Standard Edition

•	Remote Installation Services
•	Software Update Services

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Enterprise Edition

•	Systems Management Server 2003
•	Systems Management Server 2003 Operating System Deployment Feature Pack Feature Pack

Office 2003 Deployment

Overview

Key Steps

•	Step 1: Choose and define your Office 2003 editions.

•	Step 2: Identify the upgrade issues.

•	Step 3: Create the installation point.

•	Step 4: Customize Office 2003 editions.

•	Step 5: Deploy and maintain Office 2003.

Tools and Technologies

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Standard Edition

•	Active Directory and Group Policy
•	Office 2003 Resource Kit
•	Microsoft Office Access 2003 Conversion Toolkit

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Enterprise Edition

•	Systems Management Server 2003

User State Migration

Overview

Key Steps

•	Step 1: Capture and store the user data and application information.

•	Step 2: Build the new desktop and install the company-standard image.

•	Step 3: Restore the user data and application information to the new desktop.

•	Step 4: Deploy the company-standard Group Policies to the new desktop.

Tools and Technologies

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Standard Edition

•	User State Migration Tool
•	Active Directory

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Enterprise Edition

•	Systems Management Server 2003
•	Systems Management Server 2003 Operating System Deployment Feature Pack

Security Patching

Overview

Key Steps

•	Step 1: Choose and enable the security configuration of your desktops.

•	Step 2: Manage security updates.

•	Step 3: Maintain desktop security.

Tools and Technologies

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Standard Edition

•	Windows XP Service Pack 2
•	Software Update Services

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Enterprise Edition

•	Systems Management Server 2003

Provisioning

Overview

Key Steps

•	Step 1: Identify the administrative tasks (ZTP services) that you want to delegate.

•	Step 2: Ensure the appropriate infrastructure exists to support ZTP.

•	Step 3: Install the ZTP provisioning server.

•	Step 4: Create any custom ZTP services.

•	Step 5: Delegate the appropriate ZTP service to the appropriate managers.

•	Step 6: Initiate, monitor, and approve ZTP services.

Tools and Technologies

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Enterprise Edition

•	Systems Management Server 2003 with Service Pack 1a
•	Systems Management Server 2003 OSD Feature Pack
•	BizTalk Server 2004
•	Windows SharePoint Services
•	SQL Server 2000
•	Authorization Manager

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