WINDOWS 7/OFFICE 2010 ROLLOUTS
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Windows 7/Office 2010 Rollouts
Bond Dickinson LLP: Story Shared by Paul Hunt
I was tasked with developing the firm's nextgeneration desktop. As a central component of our
firm's "Get Fit" project, I built a new desktop based
on Windows 7 and Office 2010 that was designed to
be deployed with minimal intervention. To save costs,
the firm had recently dropped its existing packaging
and deployment tools in favor of leveraging Microsoft
tools that were included as part of an Enterprise
Agreement. I had to learn those tools — SCCM,
specifically — first.
The end result of my work was a zero-touch desktop
deployment across all five of the firm's offices that
included various applications specific to departments
and practice areas. This was deployed to more than 750
desktops comprising 10 separate computer models.
The average desktop deployment (full build/rebuild)
time decreased from two hours — plus additional
time for custom and practice-specific configuration
— to 37 minutes (with no need for IT intervention),
which included all additional software already
preloaded as part of the base build process.
To create the desktop, I also repackaged a little more
than 100 distinct applications that are now deployed
via SCCM as well. Further, I created a central
"applications warehouse" for business software that
is utilized by SCCM. This had the effect of recovering
needed local storage from each individual office.
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them into new Exchange 2010 systems because of
incompatibility with KVS and Exchange 2010.
To meet this challenge, we created a process that
managed the migration workflow, which included
automated timing for notifications to end users,
scheduled tasks for IT analysts and Runbook
automation to complete email archive exports/
imports and exchange migrations.
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Morrison & Foerster LLP: Story Shared by
James McKenna
We knew upgrading Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) to
Windows 7 and Office 2010 was going to be really
problematic if we did not leverage automation.
Without it, the project would take too long and the
opportunity for mistakes and frustrated users would
be really high.
Our scope was to migrate 2,500+ users across 16 offices
and three continents to Windows 7/Exchange 2010 from
Windows XP/Exchange2003. This included exporting
all the KVS email archives to .PSTs and importing
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