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Planning your Windows 7 migration

An operating system migration takes a significant amount of time and effort for a large enterprise. Optimizing your desktop environment will aid the planning of a Windows 7 operating system migration and ease future upgrades.

  • Improve desktop infrastructure and desktop management practices. By making these improvements, organizations can save on desktop costs and facilitate deployment. The majority of desktop savings can be achieved by adopting several best practices of desktop management that span the technologies, people, and processes of managing company PCs.

  • Take advantage of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. This solution suite can optimize your PC infrastructure and ease upgrades. Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), one of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) components, can significantly accelerate customer deployments. MED-V allows customers to mitigate application-to-OS compatibility issues over time by providing a seamless user experience for a legacy application running within a Virtual PC legacy OS image. Find out more about application compatibility with Windows 7.

  • Ease deployment with Windows 7. The Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool in Windows 7 provides a central place for IT professionals to build and service Windows images offline. With DISM, IT professionals can update operating system images with software updates; add optional components; and add, enumerate, and remove third-party device drivers. With Dynamic Driver Provisioning in Windows 7, IT professionals can reduce the size of system images and the number of images to manage, and won't need to update images when new hardware is introduced. DISM was also designed so that scripts written for Package Manager and Windows Vista continue to work with Windows 7.

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With faster migration of user data and settings, we expect to save 30 minutes per desktop in deployment time. This adds up to 2,500 hours based on deploying 5,000 workspaces annually. "

Kris Bries
Infrastructure Manager, Getronics case study

Contact your Microsoft sales representative to discuss migration options and to develop a tailored deployment plan based on the needs of your organization.

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Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows 7 and may require advanced or additional hardware.