Course Overview
ITCare, delivered and hosted quarterly by our Partners is designed to keep you up to date on the cutting-edge technologies. ITCare is a FREE half-day technical seminar series created by IT Professionals for IT Professionals! We'll address the needs and issues today and show you how to make a real difference in the way that you work.

Are you tired of using a manual checklist to create new desktop images? Would you like to find a way to reduce desktop imaging and deployment costs while implementing best practices? Interested in rolling out Windows 7?

Speaker: Jarvis Davis, Senior ConfigMgr Consultant -- Jarvis is a skilled IT practitioner who has gained a broad range of experience in designing and implementing IT systems over the last 13+ years. His non-profit sector experience instilled the need to reduce costs by implementing solutions leveraging automation to minimize administrative and support staff all while providing higher business value. Jarvis presented this topic at the Microsoft Management Summit in April 2009 and at TechEd in May 2009.

Objectives
The attendee should learn the following from this course:

• High-level description of the approach used to successfully manage desktop deployments
• Lessons learned from previous efforts
• The key factors that drive consistency and repeatability of deployment and minimize project risk
• The pros and cons of available options, such as Microsoft update, WSUS, etc.
• The business case of utilizing a single image per OS
• The benefits of building an image in a virtual machine

Audience
Geared toward mid to high level IT management, and senior infrastructure technologist at organizations interested in deploying new versions or upgrades of operating systems, system software, and applications.

Prerequisites
None

Course Length
1 Half Day

Course Price
$0.00

Topics
In this session, Virteva will share their desktop deployment processes and methodologies as well as lessons learned, covering best practices and lessons learned performing OS deployments. We will use real world experiences, resolutions, and best practices to highlight the "best" process for implementing an automated deployment system. We will touch on the process for building and deploying your "gold" image including OS installation, driver management, updates management, managing user state, and dynamic application deployment.