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Managing Shims in an Enterprise

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Provides reusable guidance for reducing the cost of deployment for Windows 7 by accelerating the mitigation of blocking application compatibility issues—including understanding how shims work, when to consider applying shims, and how to manage the shims you do apply.

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File Name:Managing Shims in an Enterprise.doc
Version:May 2009
Date Published:5/12/2009
Language:English
Download Size:177 KB
Estimated Download Time: 1 min 56K

Overview

In this document, Chris Jackson, from the Microsoft Windows Application Experience SWAT Team, shares his experience and best practices working with large enterprise customers to address application compatibility issues by using shims and to manage an organization’s custom shim databases. This document provides reusable guidance for reducing the cost of deployment for Windows 7 by accelerating the mitigation of blocking application compatibility issues—including understanding how shims work, when to consider applying shims, and how to manage the shims you do apply.

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System Requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7
Windows 7

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