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It’s hard to believe that it has been 6 months since I last posted here!

At the risk of over-doing the Data^#3 deployment success story –I will only make one comment: and that is to say that in the past six months, the number of times a Windows 7 SOE or deployment issue has been escalated to me has been so insignificant I often wonder if anyone at Data^#3 is actually using it! But of course, there are 500+ instances of the Windows 7 SOE in production, and the SCCM 2007 infrastructure is delivering new images, applications and collecting asset inventory information from both intranet and internet based clients on a daily basis. The deployment has proven itself to be robust, as well as valuable.

Speaking of value – recently Scott Gosling (National Practice Manager – Microsoft Solutions) and Steve Bolland (National Manager – PMO) have been taking Data^#3’s “7 months later” story on the road, giving our customers an update on the value that has been recognised through our deployment since the project wrapped up.

Meanwhile, we’ve been busily delivering Windows 7 for our customers all over Australia. I’m currently deploying SCCM 2007 for a customer with 15,000 seats – a primary driver being to enable them for a full scale Windows 7 deployment in the coming months.

It seems everyone has Windows 7 on their radar for deployment in the short to mid-term. I just hope everyone gives their deployment all the planning and respect it deserves! With the right approach, it’ll be the most rewarding thing you do this year…we don’t need to talk about what happens when you get it wrong