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Application Compatibility OverviewApplication Compatibility
Key Steps
  1. Collect and analyze the application inventory in your organization to build your application portfolio.
  2. Test your mitigation strategies to create your application mitigation packages.
  3. Resolve any outstanding compatibility issues to report compatibility mitigation to management.
  4. Deploy compatibility mitigation packages with core application deployment or after core application deployment.
Tools and Technologies
ImagingImaging
Key Steps
  1. Build a company-standard image for deployment.
  2. Test the image in a controlled pilot program.
  3. Use the right tools and utilities to deploy the desktop image.
  4. Manage the image lifecycle.
Tools and Technologies
Infrastructure ManagementInfrastructure Management
Key Steps
  1. Inventory hardware assets for centralized management and research of gathered data.
  2. Optimize the infrastructure for deployment of new operating systems and applications.
  3. Employ technologies to provide for accurate and timely infrastructure-management information.
Tools and Technologies
Deployment ProcessDeployment Process
Key Steps
Lite Touch Installation
  1. Ensure the appropriate infrastructure exists to support LTI deployments.
  2. Install the servers required to support LTI deployments.
  3. Create the appropriate Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) and Windows XP images.
  4. Deploy the operating system images to the client computers.
Zero Touch Installation
  1. Ensure the appropriate infrastructure exists to support ZTI.
  2. Create a database containing the configuration settings used to automate the Windows XP deployment.
  3. Create the appropriate Windows PE and Windows XP images by using OSD.
  4. Deploy the operating system images to the client computers.
  5. Monitor the deployment process by using the Zero Touch Installation Management Pack (ZTIMP) for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005.
Tools and Technologies
Office 2003 DeploymentOffice 2003 Deployment
Key Steps
  1. Choose and define your Office 2003 editions.
  2. Identify the upgrade issues.
  3. Create the installation point.
  4. Customize Office 2003 editions.
  5. Deploy and maintain Office 2003.
Tools and Technologies
User State MigrationUser State Migration
Key Steps
  1. Capture and store the user data and application information.
  2. Build the new desktop and install the company-standard image.
  3. Restore the user data and application information to the new desktop.
  4. Deploy the company-standard Group Policies to the new desktop.
Tools and Technologies
Security/PatchingSecurity/Patching
Key Steps
  1. Choose and enable the security configuration of your desktops.
  2. Manage security updates.
  3. Maintain desktop security.
Tools and Technologies
ProvisioningProvisioning
Key Steps
  1. Identify the administrative tasks (ZTP services) that you want to delegate.
  2. Ensure the appropriate infrastructure exists to support ZTP.
  3. Install the ZTP provisioning server.
  4. Create any custom ZTP services.
  5. Delegate the appropriate ZTP service to the appropriate managers.
  6. Initiate, monitor, and approve ZTP services.
Tools and Technologies
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