Get Hands-On with Windows Vista, and learn all about the new opportunities to deliver high margin deployment, management and maintenance services to your customers.
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Overview:
According to the latest market analysis and forecasts from Gartner Group and others, worldwide PC market will see a significant migration to Windows Vista over the next 12-36 months. Driving deeper adoption and deployment of the latest Microsoft Business Desktop is a key business priority for Microsoft – and will create significant business opportunities for our partners. Come to this one-day course to learn about deriving service opportunities for planning and integration services around Windows Vista, and get quality hands-on experience with this exciting new business platform.
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About the Training:
This one-day session is a combination of presentations that focus on growing services opportunities for partners, and a series of new technical exercises that highlight some of the compelling new design enhancements in Windows Vista. This course will concentrate on two of the key services opportunity areas for Windows Vista within your organization:
- Planning services – which includes infrastructure development services to support desktop migrations and Windows Vista business value consulting
- Integration services – which include deployment services and resources, and application compatibility
We will also cover how Windows Vista tools, technologies, and Best Practices can help partners to address these top customer issues:
- Application compatibility and user state migration
- Cost, complexity and time needed to deploy desktops
- Infrastructure and tools to enable smooth deployment
- Best practices and implementation guidelines
- Office 12 Deployment overview
There will be a special FREE module on Office 12 features during the lunch hour. Should you decide to tune in, you'll get a sneak peek into what's coming with the new release of Office 12!
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Target Audience:
This road show is intended for technical decision makers, technology implementers, and system integrators from Microsoft partners, Certified partners, and Gold Certified partners who would like to improve their ability to provide business desktop solutions, services, and guidance to organizations of various sizes.
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Prerequisites:
Although there are no formal requirements for this road show, previous experience deploying and supporting Windows client software, and related technologies will be helpful in getting the most from the lab exercises.
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Course Agenda:
This course will include the following topics:
- Windows opportunity roadmap for partners
- Deploying Windows Vista
- Windows Vista desktop management
- Maintaining reliability with Windows Vista
- Key partner programs
- Windows Vista deployment goals
- Deployment design innovations
- Windows Vista deployment tools
- Application Compatibility Toolkit
- Microsoft Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT)
- Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
- XImage and WIM image format
- Windows Setup Manager
- Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE)
- Desktop deployment phases
- Planning
- Engineering
- Implementation
- Best Practices for deployment
- New computer installations
- Upgrade computer installations
- Computer-to-computer deployment
- Deploying Office 12
- Understanding Office 12 Migration and Customization Strategies
- Office 12 File Conversion, Migration Tools, and Resource Kit
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City/State |
Partner Price |
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Mar 01, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
San Jose, California |
$95.00 |
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Mar 01, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Charlotte, North Carolina |
$95.00 |
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Mar 03, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
$95.00 |
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Mar 03, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Atlanta, Georgia |
$95.00 |
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Mar 06, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
$95.00 |
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Mar 06, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Manhattan, New York |
$95.00 |
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Mar 08, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Denver, Colorado |
$95.00 |
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Mar 08, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
$95.00 |
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Mar 10, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Columbus, Ohio |
$95.00 |
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Mar 10, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Austin, Texas |
$95.00 |
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Mar 13, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Irvine, California |
$95.00 |
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Mar 13, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Houston, Texas |
$95.00 |
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Mar 15, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
San Francisco, California |
$95.00 |
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Mar 15, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Phoenix, Arizona |
$95.00 |
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Mar 17, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Falls Church, Virginia |
$95.00 |
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Mar 17, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Los Angeles, California |
$95.00 |
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Mar 20, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Morristown, New Jersey |
$95.00 |
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Mar 20, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Chicago, Illinois |
$95.00 |
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Mar 22, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
San Diego, California |
$95.00 |
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Mar 22, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
St. Louis, Missouri |
$95.00 |
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Mar 24, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Dallas, Texas |
$95.00 |
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Mar 24, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Miami, Florida |
$95.00 |
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Mar 27, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Bellevue, Washington |
$95.00 |
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Mar 27, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Washington, D.C. |
$95.00 |
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Mar 29, 2006
9:00AM-5:00PM |
Waltham, Massachusetts |
$95.00 |
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