New Business Desktop Deployment Hands On Labs posted to the Partner Learning Centre
Technorati tags: Vista, ForeFront
Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator (BDD) provides a consistent, repeatable methodology and best practices for deploying Windows Vista and Office 2007. It was developed with over 20,000 people hours at Microsoft and represents the combined learning from 5 million deployed desktops. To help partners understand and use BDD the following Hands On Labs Online have been posted to the PLC
DDPS v2 – BDD 2007 and Zero Touch Provisioning
3 Hours
On Demand
Online
ZTP is the implementation of action, workflows, and operations required to enable users to self-subscribe to services and software. ZTP is designed to deliver those services with minimal human interaction to reduce the likelihood of costly errors and administration overhead. The vision of ZTP is to develop a reliable, scalable, secure, and manageable enterprise self-service provisioning framework that customers and partners can easily extend with additional services.
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DDPS v2 - Building a Deployment Cost Estimate using the DDPS Cost Calculator
1 Hour
On Demand
Online
DDPS includes the delivery of a cost estimate based on real world inputs. In this HOL, learn how to apply customer requirements and environmental dependencies into a cost-based deployment calculation.
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DDPS v2 - Office 2007 Customization and Deployment
2 Hours
On Demand
Online
Office 2007 introduces new features & technologies. New deployment features are presented in this Hands-on Lab. This Hands-on Lab will show you how to deploy Office 2007 and Office System products in various ways, such as silent installation, customized setup or chained products installation while using BDD2007 Workbench to integrate and manage the customizations. In this lab, Woodgrove is deploying Office Professional Enterprise 2007 to workstations in different ways.
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DDPS v2 - BDD 2007 Lite Touch Deployments
1.5 Hours
On Demand
Online
The objective of this lab is to install the new version of BDD, configure it for a sample deployment environment, and use it to easily deploy Windows Vista images. The lab environment allows you to fully configure complete end-to-end deployments including New Computer and Refresh Computer scenarios.
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1 Hour
On Demand
Online
The objective of this lab is to install the new version of BDD2007, configure it for a sample deployment environment, and use it to easily deploy Windows Vista images. The lab environment allows you to fully configure complete end-to-end deployments including New Computer and Refresh Computer scenarios.
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DDPS v2 - Windows Vista and the Standard User Analyzer
On Demand
Online
The Microsoft® Standard User Analyzer is a tool you can use to test an application and monitor API calls that may fail as a standard user. Microsoft® Windows Vista, with the User Account Control feature, runs all users (including members of the Administrators group) as a standard user by default until the application is specifically elevated. Understanding which applications may have potential bugs when running as a standard user (LUA bugs), and whether there are mitigations available
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DDPS v2 – BDD 2007 Zero Touch Deployments
1 Hour
On Demand
Online
The SMS 2003 OS Deployment Feature Pack adds new functionality to SMS; the Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) component of the Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator adds additional functionality to the OS Deployment Feature Pack. The objective of this lab is to explore how ZTI is used in these scenarios: - To customize the computer refresh (in-place upgrade) process. - To provision a new computer without going through the standard OS Deployment Feature Pack
DDPS v2 - Forefront Client Security
1 Hour
On Demand
Online
In this exercise, you will examine how Forefront Client Security (FCS) detects malware (viruses and spyware) on client computers and file servers.