Windows 7 project planning advice for enterprise migrations

Windows 7 project planning with Dashworks

Your organisation is upgrading from Windows XP. You have hundreds or thousands of users, computers and applications to migrate onto a new desktop operating system. You don’t want to spend your entire budget on people and process to get the project delivered. You want your deployment to be seamless to the end users with minimal business disruption.

Your deployment manager is right to be concerned. It’s a complex set of logistics to get right. What’s your schedule? What is your deployment capacity? Where are you deploying? What is your mix of migration paths (physical replace, rebuild, VDI etc)? How do you manage schedule change? What can you automate?

These are just some of the questions asked by deployment managers every day, and some of the items that can drive the most cost.

Dashworks system is tailor-made to help your deployment manager take control of your Windows 7 rollout.

Preparing your business for Windows 7 deployment

Your enterprise probably employs a number of deployment managers. They are crucial to the success of your Windows 7 program. As your direct interface with end users, a good deployment experience can dramatically improve the business perception of the rollout.

At its worst, your Windows 7 deployment could be a chaotic mess. There could be last minute schedule changes; applications not ready; hardware not available; end users not aware of the rollout.

The impact? Mass business disruption and high program cost. The solution to this problem is Dashworks. With Dashworks, your deployment manager has the Windows 7 deployment tools needed to succeed.

Benefits for Windows 7 deployment managers

Total Windows deployment visibility

Your deployment manager wants to know three key things. What am I deploying? Where? When?

Dashworks takes the hassle out of the rollout logistics. Dashboards built by deployment managers for deployment managers. In real-time. Never get caught out with your deployment plan again.

Seamless deployment automation

You will have a number of technical tasks to complete your deployment. Active Directory application or policy group drops, home drive moves, print queue assignment. These are just some typical examples of migration activity.

Dashworks can provide all the information you need to execute your technical deployment and write back task success. Simple end-to-end control.

Better reporting on your desktop rollout plan

How is your rollout performing? How are you doing against forecast? How many deployment failures are there? What do I need to procure one week out, one month out or more?

Dashworks holds so much Windows 7 project information that you can pretty much query it for anything regarding your enterprise deployment.