Assessing Application Compatibility

You can set your organization's assessment rating for each application, application installation report, and Web site. Setting your assessment rating enables you to specify which applications might be problematic while going through your organization's testing process. Additionally, setting your assessment enables you to organize your data better, for both a more customized ACT compatibility report and for filtering purposes.

Note Microsoft, the application vendor, and the ACT Community also can add assessment ratings. You can view high-level assessment summaries and specific application assessment details in the applicable report screen or report detail screen. For more information about how to view the assessment details, see the ACT documentation.

Your assessment choices include the following:

• Works Indicates that during your organization's testing process, you did not experience any issues.
• Works With Minor Issues Or Has Solutions Indicates that during your organization's testing process, you experienced minor issues (severity 3), such as showing a typographical error, or an issue that already had a known solution.
• Does Not Work Indicates that during your organization's testing process, you experienced a severity 1 or severity 2 issue.
• No Data Neither your organization, Microsoft Corporation, the vendor of the application or Web site, nor the ACT Community has provided any data.

To assess your compatibility data, perform the following steps:

1. In the left pane of the ACM, click Analyze.
2. In the Quick Reports pane, click Applications in the Windows 7 Reports section.
3. Right-click an application in the Windows 7 - Application Report and then click Set Assessment.
4. In the Set Assessment dialog box, click an assessment and then click OK.

Setting the Deployment Status

You can set your organization's deployment status for each application, application installation report, Web site, and Windows update. Setting your deployment status enables you to determine where each item is in your testing process. Additionally, setting your deployment status enables you to organize your data better, for both a more customized ACT compatibility report and for filtering purposes. Your deployment status choices include the following:

• Not Reviewed Your organization has not yet reviewed this item to determine its impact, testing requirements, or deployment options.
• Testing Your organization is in the process of locating compatibility issues.
• Mitigating Your organization is in the process of creating and applying solutions for your compatibility issues.
• Ready To Deploy Your organization has completed its testing and mitigation processes and has determined that you can deploy the item in your organization.
• Will Not Deploy Your organization has decided that you will not deploy the item in your organization.

To assess your deployment status, perform the following steps:

1. In the left pane of the ACM, click Analyze.
2. In the Quick Reports pane, click Applications in the Windows 7 Reports section.
3. Right-click an application in the Windows 7 - Application Report and then click Set Deployment Status.
4. In the Set Deployment Status dialog box, click a deployment status and then click OK.