You’re through with testing and ready for deployment, but wait…how are you going to actually deploy Windows 7? Over the network? Via USB stick? Walking around with DVDs? You can learn about Windows 7 deployment with TechMentor’s Greg Shields, but you demand more. Leave TechMentor with a fully-automated and ready-to-go deployment solution. You’ll return to work and immediately get to work with the tools Greg gives you in this track.
And don’t miss the hands-on labs!* In this unique series of sessions with Microsoft MVP and TechMentor Conference Chair Greg Shields, you’ll get training PLUS you'll construct a production-ready deployment SOLUTION. Three of Greg’s sessions are completely hands-on, comprising eight full hours of labs and activities that build a Windows Server virtual machine into a production-worthy (even for large deployments!) solution (sessions PRE2, TU2, and TU8).
Greg will lead you through the steps, including:
- Gathering and using a hardware, software, and driver inventory.
- Building images, including every administrator’s dream, the Single Image That Installs Everywhere.
- Incorporating deployment mechanisms using multicast, over-the-network, and USB sticks.
- Packaging applications and installing them on-demand with Windows.
- Handling patches and updates to images and applications.
- Dealing with and actually fixing application compatibility issues.
Best yet, you’ll leave with a fully-functional deployment solution-on-a-stick, primed and ready to begin deploying Windows 7!
*Attendees participating in hands-on labs must purchase Greg Shield’s Windows 7 Deployment Solution Go-Stick ($70) and also bring a laptop with the following configuration: Minimum dual processor with four gigabytes of RAM, 50GB of free disk space, and the Windows XP, Vista, or 7 operating system. Please have installed the latest version of VMware Workstation or VMware Player prior to class. Please also have the contents of the Go-Stick copied to your laptop’s hard drive prior to class.
Greg Shield’s Windows 7 Deployment Solution Go-Stick can be purchased on the registration page as you register for the event