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Best Practices
So before you jump headlong into this much-awaited technology upgrade, here are a few tips and best practices to keep in mind before you start this critical project.
Best Practices for the Preparations Stage
- Allocate sufficient time and resources to upfront activities to lower the costs during migration.
- Outline all applications that are not compatible to Windows 7 and take help from an external expert’s Application Compatibility Factory model.
- Subscribe to Application Compatibility and Packaging factory models that offer application compatibility, packaging and re-imaging solutions for accelerated Windows 7 deployment.
- Form a project committee that includes members from each major business unit, as well as operational groups in the IT organization. This committee would oversee the development of a project timeline that features high-level milestones and estimates required resources.
- Establish a formal, comprehensive and workable testing methodology to ensure that issues are identified and categorized keeping in mind your environment’s variability.
- Explore a migration model that ensures low business risk and promises assurance tolerance to loss of data through a robust user state backup and restoration process for user data and settings.
Best Practices for the Deployment Stage
- Create a platform for visibility into reports on the number of deployments completed, failed deployments, status of opened tickets, time taken for deployments, upcoming schedule for deployments, etc.
- Use your Windows migration as an opportunity to improve your PC manageability.
- Plan on piloting for a minimum of three months. The shorter the pilot, the more problems will occur during the deployment.
Maninder Singh is Head- End User Computing Services at HCL ISD
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