The primary goal of the Microsoft Windows 7 Readiness Assessment offered by Long View is to help your organization obtain a high level understanding of its existing Windows operating system environment and to prepare you for a smooth transition to the latest version of Windows. Understanding the principles and practices of a successful Windows 7 deployment will help your IT department save time, save money, and most importantly, improve your overall business productivity.

Windows 7 provides a range of powerful new features and enhancements that can enable business continuity and promote greater agility, but the proper deployment of a new operating system requires careful consideration and preparation. Application compatibility, user state migration, automation, and other issues need to be viewed from a strategic perspective. Long View helps you use the best planning tools and processes available so that you can make informed decisions early in the process.

The Long View Windows 7 Readiness Assessment involves:

• Initial inventory gathering;
• Review and prioritization of new features available with Windows ;
• Identification and cataloguing of existing management tools (i.e. SCCM);
• Review of Active Directory infrastructure to identify any gaps;
• Review of existing application lifecycle and packaging processes to identify any gaps;
• Review of existing OS image and deployment process;
• Review of existing licensing to identify gaps and optimization opportunity; and,
• Delivery of a deployment roadmap.

Assessment Deliverables

• The Long View Windows 7 Readiness Assessment results in the following high level deliverables:
• High level software/hardware inventory;
• Recommendations around deployment methodology;
• Recommendations around Windows 7 feature adoption;
• Recommendations around image strategy;
• Infrastructure recommendations;
• Application deployment strategy recommendations,
• Licensing recommendations – Software Assurance (SA) and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) benefits.

Deployment Tools & Methodology

• Long View will make use of the following tools as part of its Windows 7 Assessment:
• Map existing key inventories using in-place inventory tools (applications, licensing & compliance management);
• Microsoft Assessment Planner (MAP) toolkit (agent-less);
• Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6 (if existing software delivery system is in place) -
• 10% sample of the workstation environment; and,
• Two (2) workshops around Windows 7/Office 2010 features and application compatibility.

Core Infrastructure Optimization helps you better understand and move toward a more secure, well-managed, and dynamic core IT infrastructure that will help reduce overall costs, make better use of resources, and make IT a strategic asset for the business.

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