Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment Enterprise Edition
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 | Overview |
| Benefits of Business Desktop Deployment |
| Target Audience |
| Documentation Overview |
| Feedback |
Overview
The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) is part of a family of Microsoft solution offerings aimed at providing reusable components and repeatable processes to achieve timely and cost-effective information technology (IT) solutions.
The BDD solution is designed to help a team deploy Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Office Professional Edition 2003, and other applications quickly and reliably to computers across an organization. It addresses both Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
To achieve this goal, this accelerated solution provides fully developed processes for:
| • | Workstation imaging |
| • | Software and hardware inventory |
| • | Application compatibility evaluation and remediation |
| • | Application packaging and scripting |
| • | Network inventory and analysis |
| • | Workstation deployment, including data migration |
| • | Project management throughout the project’s life cycle |
This solution accelerator is based upon Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) project principles and Microsoft Worldwide Services real-world best practices. It provides guidance and documentation for use in planning, developing, and customizing an organization’s deployment.
Benefits of Business Desktop Deployment
BDD improves desktop deployment efforts by providing customers with services, tools, resources, and guidance essential to accelerating desktop deployment efforts while delivering higher-quality results.
Target Audience
This solution accelerator will be of value to users in two primary categories:
| • | IT departments can use it to plan and carry out a Windows XP Professional desktop deployment either internally or with help from contractors or consultants. |
| • | Consulting organizations can use it to plan and carry out a Windows XP Professional deployment for a client company or organization. |
To obtain the maximum benefit from this solution accelerator, you should have at least a basic understanding of commonly used computer and networking terms and concepts and be fairly conversant with the Windows XP platform and user interface. Team members should be proficient in their assigned duties and be familiar with the other roles defined for MSF teams.
Documentation Overview
The solution offering has four components: the Plan, Build, and Deploy Guide, the technical feature team guides, the template documents, and the solution scripts. A team can use these interdependent components in whole or in part depending on the role of a particular team member in the project.
A feature team is a cross-organizational team of responsible owners organized to solve a defined problem. The BDD solution includes the following feature teams:
| • | Application Compatibility |
| • | Computer Imaging System |
| • | Deployment |
| • | Infrastructure Remediation |
| • | Core Applications (including Office 2003) |
| • | Operations Readiness |
| • | Security |
| • | Supplemental Applications |
| • | Test |
| • | User State Migration |
| • | Zero Touch Provisioning |
Feedback
We always appreciate feedback. Please send your comments or questions regarding this technical guidance to cisfdbk@microsoft.com.