{"id":2400,"date":"2010-07-24T09:12:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2019-11-01T16:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T23:24:51","slug":"choosing-a-deployment-strategy-for-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/choosing-a-deployment-strategy-for-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a Deployment Strategy for Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to deploying Windows 7, one of the challenges administrators face is trying to figure out which deployment method is the best suited for a particular scenario. Fortunately, Microsoft has documented some guidelines for Choosing a Deployment Strategy<\/a> in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nHigh-Touch with Retail Media<\/strong><\/td>\nHigh Touch with Standard Image<\/strong><\/td>\nLite-Touch, High-Volume Deployment<\/strong><\/td>\nZero-Touch, High-Volume Deployment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
IT skill level<\/td>\nIT generalist<\/td>\nIT\u00a0pro with optional deployment experience<\/td>\nIT\u00a0pro with deployment experience recommended<\/td>\nIT\u00a0pro with deployment and Configuration Manager 2007\u00a0R2 expertise<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows license agreement<\/td>\nRetail<\/td>\nRetail or Software Assurance<\/td>\nSoftware Assurance<\/td>\nEnterprise Agreement<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Number of client computers<\/td>\n<100<\/td>\n100\u2013200<\/td>\n200\u2013500<\/td>\n>500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Infrastructure<\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • Distributed locations<\/li>\n
  • Small, unmanaged networks<\/li>\n
  • Manual client computer configuration<\/li>\n
  • Distributed locations<\/li>\n
  • Small networks<\/li>\n
  • Standardized configurations, including applications<\/li>\n
  • Managed networks<\/li>\n
  • At least one office with more than 25 users<\/li>\n
  • Windows Server\u00ae products<\/li>\n
  • Configuration Manager\u00a02007 R2 (optional)<\/li>\n
  • Managed network<\/li>\n
  • At least one office with over 25 users<\/li>\n
  • Windows Server products<\/li>\n
  • Configuration Manager 2007 R2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Application support<\/td>\nManually installed commercial applications<\/td>\nManually installed commercial or line-of-business (LOB) applications<\/td>\nAutomatically installed commercial or LOB applications<\/td>\nAutomatically installed commercial or LOB applications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
User interaction<\/td>\nManual, hands-on deployment<\/td>\nManual, hands-on deployment<\/td>\nLimited interaction at the beginning of installation<\/td>\nFully automated deployment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lower cost and effort by\u2026<\/td>\n\u2026automating client computer configuration<\/td>\n\u2026creating standardized images<\/td>\n\u2026providing network-based deployment to support large-scale deployment with limited interaction<\/td>\n\u2026providing network-based deployment to support large scale-deployment with no interaction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Helping to\u2026<\/td>\n\u2026create reproducible and faster client computer installation<\/td>\n\u2026reduce configuration testing and deployment time<\/td>\n\u2026leverage standardized images with network access by using pull automation<\/td>\n\u2026leverage standardized images with network access by using push automation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Strategy description<\/strong><\/td>\nHigh-Touch with Retail Media<\/strong><\/td>\nHigh Touch with Standard Image<\/strong><\/td>\nLite-Touch, High-Volume Deployment<\/strong><\/td>\nZero-Touch, High-Volume Deployment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows\u00a07 Tools<\/td>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to deploying Windows 7, one of the challenges administrators face is trying to figure out which deployment method is the best suited for a particular scenario. Fortunately, Microsoft has documented some guidelines for Choosing a Deployment Strategy in detail. High-Touch with Retail Media High Touch with Standard Image Lite-Touch, High-Volume Deployment Zero-Touch, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,30,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toolsutils","category-longhorn-server","category-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}