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A Couple of Actions from the Data#3 + Windows 7 Roadshow
So our deployment is well and truly complete, and the response from our users has been fantastic. For the last two weeks we’ve taken our story on the road, presenting to somewhere near 500 customers at sessions hosted in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
Attendance at the events was outstanding, and the feedback forms suggest our [...]
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Week 2 of Production Deployment
We are in week 2 of deployment, and shortly we’ll have deployed the Windows 7 SOE to around half of the fleet. We’ll ramp it up again next week and should hit our target date for deployment by 09/09/09. We have been averaging about 30 machines per day fairly comfortably, with a 3 days on 2 days [...]
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Open Pilot: Windows 7 Enterprise RTM SOE Unleashed
After waiting a little longer than we expected for the RTM media, we are now officially 2 days in to Open Pilot. In the past 2 days, we have deployed our Windows 7 Enterprise RTM SOE to 31 Open Pilot users spread across 7 geographical locations and 4 time zones. We have deployed to 7 [...]
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Windows 7 Is Now RTM
Windows 7 went RTM this morning: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/22/windows-7-has-been-released-to-manufacturing.aspx
Let’s see how long it takes to get my hands on the source!
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The Calm Before the Storm
RTM is imminent, and I’d say I’m just about ready for Open Pilot and full scale deployment. The issues that we identified during Closed Pilot are now down to a manageable list and I’m feeling pretty excited about pulling the trigger.
The issues we identified during closed pilot were fairly trivial; none of which came close [...]
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Windows 7 SOE Deployed to Closed Pilot Users
Last week we rolled out the first cut of our Windows 7 SOE image to a set of closed pilot users. There are 27 closed pilot users in total, representing a good cross section of users and hardware types from each line of business. Nearly all the closed pilot users are located in the same [...]
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User State Migration Tool (USMT) 4.0
Arguably the most challenging task of an SOE deployment is determining how to capture users’ data and application settings, and then restore it post image deployment. The speed and accuracy of this task has possibly the biggest impact on a user’s perceived success (or otherwise) of the project. Windows 7 may be a wonderful operating [...]
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Qualcomm WWAN Device on Windows 7
HP Elitebook 6930p and 2530p notebooks are standard models that are purchased when a Data#3 user orders a new notebook. Generally speaking we had very little trouble sorting out drivers to support Windows 7 on these devices; until it came to the onboard Qualcomm Wireless WAN device. What a nightmare.
Luckily for us, we aren’t the [...]
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SCCM 2007 for Data#3 (the customer)…
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 is always my tool of choice for creating and deploying Windows SOEs. I’ll discuss the reasons for that in another post at another time, but for now my problem is that Data#3 (the customer) does not yet have SCCM 2007 deployed internally. Now is the perfect opportunity to do something [...]
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Has it really been 6 months?