Dive into the Summer with TechNet: Desktop Deployment

In half an hour

There's a whole range of different strategies for rolling out your desktop infrastructure, from manual installation for individual machines to totally automatic installation for thousands of desktops. Here's a summary of the various strategies available:

• High-Touch with Retail Media
• High Touch with Standard Image
• Lite-Touch, High-Volume Deployment
• Zero-Touch, High-Volume Deployment
• 10 IT Pro Pain Points Simplified with MDOP

And be sure to take a look at our new cloud solutions, including Windows Intune and Office 365.

In half a day

What are Optimized Desktop solutions? View this video that features all of our different technologies for rolling out an Optimized desktop.

Here are some handy tools for a general rollout of Windows 7:

• "Is XP Good Enough? Really" Virtual Round Table on demand
• TechDays 2011 Application compatibility session.
• Step-by-step: migration/upgrade to Windows 7
• Step-by-step: Basic Windows rollout for IT Professionals
• Step-by-Step: Basic Windows migration for IT Professionals
• 10 IT Pro Pain Points Simplified with MDOP

And here's some more information about application compatibility:

• Section on the application compatibility of Windows client TechCenter
• Getting Started with Application Compatibility in a Windows Deployment
• Video: Virtual round table about Windows 7 application compatibility with Mark Russinovich
• Video: Resources for application compatibility with Jeremy Chapman
• Webpage: Beginning with application compatibility in a Windows Deployment
• Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit

Windows Intune

Windows Intune simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services and the Windows 7 operating system - so your computers and users can operate at peak performance from virtually anywhere.

Video:Windows Intune Quick Overview

There's so much you can achieve in half a day!

In a full day (or more)

In this “Deployment Survival Guide” tour aim is to show you what we think are very useful resources for IT Pros who are thinking about migrating/deploying to Windows 7. The guide is just a subset of the information you will find at our “TechNet Springboard” site.

Resources:

Windows Intune

Windows Intune simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services and the Windows 7 operating system—so your computers and users can operate at peak performance from virtually anywhere.

• Video: Windows Intune Quick Overview
• Video: Introducing Windows Intune Client Tools
• Video: Working with Windows Intune Groups
• Windows Intune Trial Guide
• Windows Intune Blog

App.compat. tools & guidance

• Windows 7 Application Compatibility (Overview)
• Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.6
• Application Compatibility Downloadable List for IT Pros
• Windows 7 Application Quality Cookbook
• Getting Started with Application Compatibility in a Windows Deployment
• Five Steps to Windows 7 Application Readiness
• TechDays 2011 Application compatibility session.

Manageability & security

• What’s new in Group Policy: Group Policy Blog
• Techdays 2011: Troubleshooting Group Policy
• PowerShell Script Center: PowerShell Blog
• Windows 7 BitLocker Documentation
• Windows 7 AppLocker Documentation
• TechDays 2011: Total Workstation lockdown

Deployment tools guidance

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010
• Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK)
• How to pilot W7

Performance tools, monitoring and analysis

• Sysinternals Process Utilities
• Windows Performance Analysis Developer Center
• Windows Performance Toolkit

Windows 7 Walkthroughs

Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010

• Part 1: Building the Deployment Environment
• Part 2: Initiating the Install and Migrating the PC

Windows 7 Deployment Tools

• Part 1: Preparing an Image using Sysprep and ImageX
• Part 2: Deployment Image and Servicing Management
• Part 3: Deployment Workbench in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010
• Part 4: Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration

Step-by-Step Deployment with the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK)

• Step 1: Creating an Answer File
• Step 2: Building a Reference Installation
• Step 3: Creating a Bootable Windows PE CD-ROM
• Step 4: Capturing the Customized Windows Installation
• Step 5: Deploying the Windows Image from a Network Share

Upgrading to Windows 7 for Small and Midsize Businesses

• Upgrading to Windows 7 for Small and Midsize Businesses: Overview
• Manual Installation of Windows 7
• Building a Standard Image of Windows 7
• Automated Installation of Windows 7

Office 2010 Deployment:

• TechDays 2011: Migration and Deployment of Office 2010
• TechDays 2011: To Cloud or not to Cloud: the true story of Office 365
• Office Professional Plus for Office 365
• TechNet webcast: Introducing Office 365 to your end-users
• Microsoft Office Web Apps Deployment
• Step-by-Step: Offline Migration with USMT
• Running Microsoft Office in an App-V Virtualized Environment
• Announcing the Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program
• Application compatibility and remediation guide
• Office 2010 Interactive Guides (learn where Office 2003 features are located in Office 2010)
• Deploying by running Setup from a network share
• Deploying by using System Center Configuration Manager
• Deploying by using System Center Essential
• Deploying by using Group Policy computer startup scripts
• Deploying by using Application Virtualization
• Silent installation

Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Deployment:

• Video: Internet Explorer 9 Overview
• Internet Explorer 9 - Overview for IT Professionals
• Internet Explorer 9 Deployment Guide
• Web Site Troubleshooting Guidance: Learning to identify and resolve compatibility issues
  like the Internet Explorer team
• Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7
• Internet Explorer 8 Deployment Guide

Microsoft Optimized desktop

• 10 IT Pro Pain Points Simplified with MDOP
• Application Virtualization
• Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization
• Advanced Group Policy Management
• Asset Inventory Service
• Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT)
• System Center Desktop Error Monitoring