Planning the Deployment

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This section assumes that you have successfully tested your deployment in a lab using hardware and software identical to your enterprise. After you have tested your deployment in a lab environment, you are ready to begin the Office XP deployment in the first production-pilot environment. This first deployment should be a small pilot group, which you can carefully monitor, and adjust plans according to findings.

Before deploying Office XP in a production environment, you must:

  • Consider basic planning issues.

  • Determine the systems and sites that will be upgraded.

  • Determine SFU requirements.

  • Plan for clients without administrative credentials.

  • Determine which clients require software upgrades prior to installing Office XP (through software inventory and queries).

  • Plan installation options.

  • Plan the strategy for collections and program advertisements.

  • Prepare and customize the Office XP installation.

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