Windows Vista includes deployment tools that help you manage your migration. Dell Services extends the reach of those tools with time-saving automated deployments based on best practices.
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Deployment tools are included in Windows VistaT. Dell Managed GET READY FOR Services extend the reach of those tools with time-saving automated deployments based on best practices.WINDOWS VISTA
he Windows Vista era is un- deployment time to less than one hour Finally, Dell technicians arrive at thederway, and the new desktop and significantly reduce costs. customer site to set up the new PCs or up-operating system promises a Windows Vista is designed to be easy grade existing systems with Windows Vista. Tgiant step forward in business comput- to deploy, and Dell, an industry leader A Dell installer working on several systems ing. Windows Vista provides a wealth of in PC design and manufacturing, helps at once can set up the new PCs, migrate user new tools that help users manage their make it simple through its Deployment data, and get the PCs onto a network anddata, search for information, collaborate Services that leverage new Windows activated in an hour or less. at samewith their peers, and utilize the new- Vista tools and best-practice method- installer will remove the PC packaging forest release of the Microsoft® 2007 Of- ologies, including BDD 2007 and WIM, recycling, and move the old PC into an fice System. For corporate IT, Windows to provide a three-phase deployment asset recovery process. Meanwhile, other Vista offers tight security, including service. Dell's team of experts support technicians may be upgrading existingprotection against phishing, BitLockerT enterprise customers through the systems by loading new Windows Vistaencryption, and User Account Control. assessment, planning/design, and deploy- images onto client systems.While those features can improve the ment stages, whether the customers are One customer that relies on Dell for end-user experience, other enhancements rolling out new PCs or upgrading existing PCs and for deployment ser vices is Uni-can translate into measurable time and cost hardware with Windows Vista. And Dell's lever, which manufacturers 400 brands of savings for the IT group. With Windows Deployment Services for automation are products for the home, personal care and Vista, Microsoft and its partners, includ- available for Windows XP rollouts, too. nutrition. "When it came time to look for ing Dell, have redefined how an operating Dell's deployment services start with an new equipment and associated services, system and new PCs can be deployed to assessment of a customer's current systems, we chose Dell because they could pro-thousands of desktops in a corporation. with Dell analysts identifying which PCs vide us with not just the hardware and New deployment and management can support Windows Vista, and estimating the implementation services, but ongo-enhancements include advances in ap- both the potential cost and return on ing desk-side and service-center support plication virtualization, group policies, investment for a move to Windows Vista. as well," said Dan Gizzo, VP, IT Services, troubleshooting, and asset manage- In the design and planning phase, Unilever IT Americas. Dell provides Uni-ment. Other Windows Vista features Dell helps the customer develop an imag- lever in North America with services include modularization, deployment with ing strategy, recognizing that managing such as hardware maintenance, help deska language-neutral Multi-Lingual User extra images in a large organization can service, application packaging and dis-Interface, the new hardware-neutral Win- be extremely costly to patch, update and tribution, and so ware pro le manage-dows Imaging Format (WIM) for distrib- maintain. Dell also provides application ment. "Without that partnership, the uting system images, and a new version packaging services, including scripting Unilever IT department could not provide of the Solution Accelerator for Business where needed, so that applications can be the level of service to our users that theyDesktop Deployment (BDD 2007). e ciently installed on new PCs. Dell then expect," added Vinnie DiPalermo, manager, For IT managers, anything that makes helps the customer ... [download for more]
