My name is David and I work with Dell. This is my presentation on doing a Windows 7 Migration.

1. How Every Organization can Quickly and Easily Make the Move to 7
WINDOWS 7 MIGRATION

2. Six Step Process
1. Inventory Readiness
2. Initial OS
Deployment
3. User State
Migration
4. Software
Distribution
5. Patch Management
6. Asset Management

3. Inventory Readiness
With regards to
inventory there needs
to be a way to discover
all of the software and
hardware on your
network.
 This will help you
determine your
readiness and potential
upgrade for Windows 7.
Kace’s scanning
feature will help you
discover all of this.

4. Inventory Readiness
Continued…
 Kace uses a network scanner that will detect all
of the devices connected to your network.
 These state-of-the-art capabilities will help you
accomplish very broad and very deep inventory
collection.
 The Advanced Inventory Protocol permits the
inventory to be reported on throughout the day.
This way you will always be up-to-date and
accurate.
 All of this will help you see which systems are
ready for Windows 7.

5. Initial OS Deployment
There are two
different deployment
options for Windows 7.
Scripted Installation
allows organizations to
automate the creation
Goldmaster Reference
machines and provides
a method for
slipstreaming the
appropriate drivers.
 For more technical
information on
Windows 7 Migration
go here.

6. Initial OS Deployment
Continued…
 K-Imagining is Kace’s file based imaging
format.
 The two main benefits of K Imagines are that
they use smart synchronization and they are
editable.
 All of this helps eliminate duplicate transfers.

7. User State Migration
This will permit user
specific settings and
files to be deployed
with an OS and
applications.
This minimized the
likelihood of missing
information and helps
mitigate end-user down
time. Everything they
wanted to retain from
their old OS or
computer will be ready
for them.

8. User State Migration
Continued…
 To implement one of these migrations you
follow a simple process in which you scan
user states from a computer on your network.
 Then you choose the specific users to where
you want to upload the Kace appliance and
then enable them for deployment as a
Postinstallation Task.
 After selecting the correct user states for
deployment you are finished!

9. Software Distribution
After this migration of
Windows 7 is complete
many organizations
need to distributed
business software
throughout their
network quickly and
efficiently.
Kace Software
Distribution doesn’t
require MSI’s and will
take any file, even .exe.
 LDAP and Real Time
Active Directory
provide easy alignment
with the employee
structure.

10. Software Distribution
 This will allows you to easily schedule
specified software to certain groups within
the organization.
 If the user is busy they can postpone the
installation until a better time.
 With Remote Replication it helps you manage
remote sites just as easily.
 For more detailed information on Software
Distribution go here.

11. Patch Management
Patches must be
deployed for Windows 7
and for Windows 7
Applications.
Kace makes this
possibly by providing a
centralized interface for
patch deployment for
machines at
headquarters as well as
remote sites.

12. Asset Management
A centralized approach
is absolutely crucial to
managing Lease Info, SW
Licenses, and SW
Metering.
These have direct
financial impacts on the
organization’s cost
structure. These costs
need to be analyzed in
order to successfully
upgrade to Windows 7.
Kace makes this easy via
a centralized web based
interface you can view
this information for each
computer on your
network.