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Deployment Resources for the IT Professional
As an IT decision maker or implementer, you need to deploy and maintain your software, and you want migrations to be successful and seamless to end users. Tools such as the Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator and Application Compatibility Toolkit can help simplify how you plan, build, and deploy your PC images.
Resources
Looking for the latest resources, tools, downloads, and guidance? Make sure you visit the Microsoft Canada TechNet Desktop Deployment website
Desktop Deployment Planning Services
Did you know your organization may already be eligible to receive a free Microsoft services partner led deployment assessment. The service provides the fundamental analysis, business case, process, and technical procedures you need to execute a comprehensive desktop deployment project.
Learn how the Optimized Desktop can help reduce costs and improve organizational agility
Windows Vista Enterprise helps global organizations and enterprises with complex IT infrastructures lower IT costs, reduce risk, and stay connected. The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance further extends this value by reducing application deployment costs, enabling delivery of applications as services, and allowing for better management and control of enterprise desktop environments.
Business Process Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO)
Optimize Your Business Productivity Infrastructure
You can now meet the demands of the new world of work with the 2007 Microsoft Office system and an integrated approach to Unified Communications and Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management, Business Intelligence, and Enterprise Search. This technology can help your business keep pace with changes and meet the challenges of this new world of work by helping your people to simplify working together, secure and manage content, and find information and improve business insight.
Increase Business Productivity
Connect people, processes, and information using the powerful business productivity infrastructure software found in 2007 Microsoft Office system. Using optimized and familiar Office desktop and server software, this people-ready infrastructure offers midsize organizations secure, manageable, and easy-to-use solutions for unified communication and collaboration, business intelligence, and enterprise content management tools. It also equips IT with improved tools for security, deployment and reducing support costs.
Related Links
Infrastructure Optimization Blog
These blogs focus on Infrastructure Optimization, the Infrastructure Optimization Model, and how Self-Managing Dynamic Systems and Microsoft Operations Framework align. Additional topics may include how to simplify infrastructure and management, improve infrastructure security and reduce cost and complexity.
Microsoft Operations Framework
The Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) provides operational guidance that enables organizations to achieve mission-critical system reliability, availability, supportability, and manageability of Microsoft products and technologies. With MOF guidance, you'll be able to assess your current IT service management maturity, prioritize your processes of greatest concern, and apply proven principles and best practices to optimize your management of the Windows Server platform.
Key Tools
Deploy systems faster with the BDD 2007 Solution Accelerator
Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 is the best-practice set of comprehensive guidance and tools from Microsoft to optimally deploy Windows Vista and the 2007 Office system. Watch a Business Desktop Deployment overview video (requires Flash plug-in).
TechNet Magazine: 10 things you need to know about deploying Windows Vista
From more flexible image handling to a new boot loader, Windows Vista introduces some important changes for desktop deployment. Here's a look at 10 ways Windows Vista can make your next deployment faster and easier than ever.
Application Compatibility Toolkit
Find out whether your existing applications will be compatible with your new Windows operating system. The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit and additional application compatibility resources are designed to help minimize the risks associated with deployments of Windows operating systems.
Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 (WVHA)
WVHA 2.1 is an inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that will find and determine if computers on a network are ready to run Windows Vista and/or the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
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