Windows Vista Migration

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Windows Vista Migration

• Are you prepared?

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Vista Readiness Level

• READY
• Tested apps, ordered new hardware,
• migration jobs defined

• PLANNING
• Installed Vista, pre-assessment complete,
• started to investigate automation

• AWARE
• Seen Vista, worried about hardware support,
• havent even thought of automation

• IRRITATED
• Heard about Vista, Not sure whats its about,
• no automation for vista deployment

• CLUELESS
• Whats Vista?
• Whats automated migration?

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Agenda

• Vista Migration Overview
• Six Steps to a Successful Migration
• Step 1 Pre-Migration Readiness Assessment
• Step 2 Data Settings Preservation
• Step 3 Image Build Process
• QA / Break
• Step 4 Software Packaging
• Step 5 Software Delivery
• Step 6 Post-Migration Reporting
• Benefits of Migrating with Altiris
• Beyond Migration PC Lifecycle Management
• Additional Resources and Guidance for Migration
• QA

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Migration-Related Challenges

• Is our hardware Vista-ready?

• Will our applications still work?

• How can I standardize?

• Downtime

• 2,000 PCs
• 8 locations
• one sys admin
• 14 hour workdays

• What happened to my wallpaper?

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Different Approaches to Migration

• Batch Migration
• Maintain small set of standard configurations
• Combination of HW refresh and re-imaging
• Good cost/manageability compromise for many

• Mass Migration
• Move everyone to common standard
• Highly manageable, but
• Expensive

• Gradual Migration
• Migrate on hardware refresh schedule
• Lower cost up-front, but
• Can create a management nightmare

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Six Steps to a Successful Migration
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Step 1 Pre-Migration Readiness Assessment
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Hardware Readiness Assessment

• Review HW compliance (RAM,disk space, etc.)
• Can non-compliant components be cost-effectively
  upgraded (add RAM, add a hard drive, etc.)?
• How many PCs will be replaced? Where are they
  located?
• Required network infrastructure changes (routers,
  upgraded bandwidth, etc.)?

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Software Readiness Assessment

• What OS is currently installed?
• What software packages are the end users
  running?
• What kind of data resides on the users systems?
• Which data is critical to the business?

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Company Readiness Assessment

• What training is required before the project
  starts?
• Whats the best schedule for the refresh?
• What training will be required after the hardware
  refresh is complete?
• What potential future IT projects could impose
  system requirements that should be considered as
  part of the current project?

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Step 2 Data Settings Preservation
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PC Transplant Performance Expectations

• 8 to 12 minutes per GB of data
• Average user has 3 to 4 GB of unique data
• Insure sufficient storage space for PCT
• There is another option
• Dont use the UNDO option
• Remember, you cant multicast a PCT capture or
  restore

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PCT Demo

• We can talk more but why dont we just show you
• ?

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Personality Transplant Check

• REM PCT Capture Script using SERIALNUM
• \\altiris\express\PCT\PCTWiz.exe -validate -q
  -p\\altiris\express\PCT\Templates\BUILDTEMPLATE.p
  bt
• -f\\altiris\express\PCT_Storage\SERIALNUM\SERI
  ALNUM.exe -user
• --------------------------------------
• The following is the validate PCT Capture Script
• --------------------------------------------------
  ------------
• REM This will validate the PCT file and return an
  Error Code \\altiris\eXpress\PCT\pkgcntnt.exe
• -pkg\\altiris\express\PCT_Storage\SERIALNUM\SE
  RIALNUM.exe -validate exit errorlevel

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Step 3 Image Management
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Best Practices for HW Independent Images

• Always start with a clean machine
• Always use a Scripted OS Install to build source
  machine
• What applications should be included in the
  image?
• What about the Altiris Agents?

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Lets take a closer look at Deployment Server!
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A Unique Image for Every User!

• SysPrep and Token Replacement

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Hardware Independent Imaging OEM Drivers

• Gather the PNP drivers you need from each HW type
• Place each set of drivers in a folder named after
  model number
• Use FIRM to inject into image as needed

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Hardware Independent Imaging OEM Drivers

• Gather the PNP drivers you need from each HW type
• Place each set of drivers in a folder named after
  model number
• Use FIRM to inject into image as needed

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Sample Script to Copy HW Model

• REM transfer the appropriate models driver files
• if "!computer_at_model_num""0890" goto nc6000
• if "!computer_at_model_num""053C" goto m300
• REM no model found, drop out of script
• goto Exit
• nc6000firm -recurse copy .\drivers\nc6000\driver
  s prod\drivers
• goto Exit
• m300firm recurse copy .\drivers\m300\drivers
  prod\drivers
• goto Exit

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Sample Script to Copy HW Model
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Altiris Advantages for Vista Deployment

• Bare metal deployment (partitioning, etc.)
• Automation (less manual tasks)
• Integration between (imaging, personality
  transfer, etc.)
• Reporting
• Managing the full stack of hardware, OS and
  applications
• Hardware
• BIOS config/update, drivers, hardware inventory,
  etc.
• Dell Client Manager, HP Client Manager, vPro,
  etc.
• Software
• Application packaging, inventory, virtualization
  (SVS), etc.

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Creating and deploying Vista through DS

• to capture
• f\vista\imagex.exe /config /compress fast
  /capture C f\images \third.wim "my Vista
  Install" /verify
• Copy the imagex.exe to a vista folder in the DS
  express share.
• to deploy
• 1. Create a prepdisk.txt file with add the
  following lines sel disk 0 clean create partition
  primary sel par 1 active assign letterC
• 2 create a job with a script task
• diskpart /s f\vista\prepdisk.txt
• echo yformat c /fsntfs /q
• f\vista\Imagex.exe /apply f\images\third.wim 1
  c

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What about other imaging technologies?

• Image X
• WIM
• Ghost
• Anything else?
• Lets go back to the Deployment Server

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Q A / Break
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Step 4 Software Packaging
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The desktop assembly line
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Enterprise Software Packaging

• A structured, best practice approach for
  preparing applications prior to deployment

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Packaging Decision Process
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Number of users
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Application Packaging Considerations

• Validation for Vista
• Single package or batch mode
• Some items can be automatically corrected
• Real-time validation as package is built
• Application Compatibility Toolkit
• Windows Installer 4.0
• Packaging best practices still apply
• Installation automation
• Conflict resolution
• Functional and system testing

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Step 5 Software Delivery
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Altiris Software Delivery Options

• NS Software Deployment
• Software Delivery Tasks
• Collection based deployment
• Software Migration Wizard
• Software Portal
• DS Software Deployment
• Include in the Base Image
• Include in Deployment Job as a task
• Combination

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Software Delivery via Notification Tasks

• Create Software Delivery Tasks
• Based on Collection Memberships

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Software Migration Wizard

• Base Software Migration on Currently Installed
  Software
• Dependent on Inventory Solution

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Software Delivery via Software Portal

• Users Request Needed Software
• Administrators can Approve/Deny Request

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Deliver Software via Deployment Server

• Include Software Install Task in the Migration
  Job
• Install Software prior to Image Creation
• Combination of above

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Pushing through NS or DS

• Notification Server SWD
• Pros
• Collection based
• Bandwidth throttling
• Multicasting
• Cons
• Waiting for policy updates
• Not directly integrated with PCT

• Deployment Solution SWD
• Pros
• Instant gratification
• Ties into PCT
• Cons
• Not collection based
• No bandwidth throttling

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Step 6 Post-Migration Reporting
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Review Reports via the Notification Server

• Migration Status via NS Reports
• Configure Daily Notification Policies
• Automatic Emails
• Schedule Reports

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Real Time Assessment via the Deployment Server

• View Job Status in Real Time via the DS Console

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Putting it all together
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Benefits of Migrating with Altiris
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Altiris Experience

• Leading deployment and migration vendor since
  1998
• Altiris software assisted in over 2.5 million
  migrations in 2002 alone
• Altiris software has helped migrate nearly 14
  million desktops and laptops to XP
• Altiris has assisted with well over 20 million
  migrations overall

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Altiris Products for Migration
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Altiris Value Propositions

• Automate the Migration Process

• Eliminate End User Downtime

• Standardize Systems

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Automate the Migration Process

• Key benefits of automation
• Reduced IT effort
• Reduced time to migrate

• With Altiris, we did a virtually hands-free
  migration across the network. It took less than
  one hour per machine, one-fourth the manual time,
  and that included upgrading other software at the
  same time. The same standard process is used to
  migrate each machine, which provides consistency
  and predictability across the network.
• Jim Harings, global administration analyst,
  Rockwell Automation

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Eliminate End User Downtime

• Key areas of savings
• Reduced downtime during migration process
• Reduced time spent configuring PC

• Our users don't like change. They want to open
  up their computer and see what they have always
  seen. Altiris helped us accomplish exactly that.
  We were able to transfer all the settings without
  users noticing any difference. The background
  was the same, the desktop the same, their files
  looked the same. And they could find their data
  in the default directories they were used to.
  They loved it,
• Michael DiMaggio, DaimlerChrysler global field
  and technology team

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Standardize Systems

• Key benefits of standardization
• Reduced IT management costs
• Reduced IT support costs
• Lower overall total cost of ownership

• Altiris made our deployment a reality. Best of
  all, we've only scratched the surface of Altiris'
  capabilities...with a reliable systems management
  client like Altiris on each of our systems, we
  can press forward with changing the way we manage
  all aspects of our standardized desktop
  environment."
• Mark Barrett, US Air Force Pentagon
  Communications Agency contractor

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Customer Success Story

• http//www.altiris.com/upload/afpca.pdf

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The Altiris Difference

• What distinguishes Altiris from its competitors
  is how well the companys software tools work
  together as a unified suite.
• Fred Broussard, Senior Research Analyst, IDC

• Complete lifecycle management
• Integration
• Automation
• Scalability
• Ease of implementation use
• Best of breed migration capabilities
• HW SW Inventory
• Software packaging
• Personality migration
• Imaging and deployment

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Beyond Migration PC Lifecycle Management
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IT Lifecycle Management
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Standardized Systems Management
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Comprehensive Approach to System Security
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Client Management Suite Intel vPro
Providing Built-in Manageability and Proactive
Security Capabilities

• Remote Asset Hardware Inventory
• Maintain more reliable asset information used for
  compliance measurement and enforcement

• Remote Diagnosis and Repair
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies using
  improved automated remediation capabilities

• Agent Presence
• Hardware based agent monitoring

• Anytime Patch Management
• Push updates and patches down the wire regardless
  of PC power state

• Hardware Based System Defense
• Enforce end point security network filtering at
  the hardware level keeping your environment more
  secure

• Virtualized Configuration Manager
• Local tamper resistant manageability appliance

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Additional Resources
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Microsoft BDD

• End-to-end guidance for deployment of Vista and
  Office 2007
• Guidance and best practices
• Sample templates
• Tools
• Altiris tools complement BDD best practices

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Gartner

• High level guidance
• Targeted toward CIO, Director level
• Primarily focused on
• Importance of planning
• Managed diversification
• Deployment best practices
• Licensing issues
• Value of ongoing lifecycle management

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• Everything needed to successfully plan and
  execute your Windows Vista migration
• eBook Definitive Guide to Windows Vista
  Migration
• Best practice guides
• White papers
• Web-casts
• Events
• Downloads
• Links

• www.easyvistamigration.com

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Thanks!