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Planning Deployment

This tutorial helps you plan the deployment of the Windows 7 operating system in your organization. Deploying an operating system requires careful planning. Application compatibility, user state migration, automation, and other issues complicate the process-making deployment more than just installing a new operating system on a handful of desktop computers. This tutorial helps you use the best planning tools available and discover issues that require planning so that you can make informed decisions early in the process.

In this tutorial:

  1. Using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
  2. Documentation
  3. Solution Framework
  4. Planning High-Volume Deployment
  5. Envision
  6. Project Planning
  7. Build
  8. Planning Low-Volume Deployment
  9. Scope and Objectives
  10. Configuration Plan
  11. Windows 7 Requirements
  12. Preparing for Development
  13. Image Engineering
  14. Infrastructure Remediation
  15. Installing the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
  16. Starting Deployment Workbench
  17. Updating Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Components