Ronnie Dockery Client BG Lead | Microsoft Ireland | Dublin, 23 rd Oct 2008 Delivering Business Value through Deployment

:15 Registration & Coffee :15 Registration & Coffee 09:15– Business, management and technical benefits of Vista and Office 2007 –09:15– Business, management and technical benefits of Vista and Office 2007 – Ronald Dockery – Microsoft Deployment Experience –10.00 – Microsoft Deployment Experience – "How To Deploy" - Windows Vista and Office Alan Stone & Paul Devlin – Coffee Break & Clinic Question Forms11.00 – Coffee Break & Clinic Question Forms – How to Deploy Continued – How to Deploy Continued – Lunch:12.30 – Lunch: – Clinics:12.45 – Clinics: Event Close14.00 Event Close

Enterprise Desktop Challenges

Infrastructure Optimization Model Cost Center ~70% of orgs Uncoordinated, manual infrastructure Basic Efficient Cost Center ~28% of orgs Managed IT Infrastructure with some automation Standardized BusinessEnabler ~2% of orgs Managed and consolidated IT Infrastructure Rationalized StrategicAsset <1% of orgs Fully automated management, dynamic resource usage Dynamic

The Optimized Desktop Vision

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Office 2007 Content Management Workflow & Portal Business Intelligence Business Intelligence SearchSearch Communications & Collaboration Word Processing Spreadsheets Presentations Databases PIM Today 1996

Business Productivity Infrastructure Streamline the way your people do business Innovative to deliver business-enabling capabilities Interoperable to unlock value in IT investments Unified to reduce IT cost and complexity Familiar to accelerate widespread impact

Office Accelerates Widespread Impact New UI and Server Integration Points Drive a New Experience Improve adoption of innovative solutions thanks to an uninterrupted user experience and achieve high return on investment Start workflow from Word, Excel, PowerPoint Publish to Excel Services from Excel Receive slide updates in PowerPoint Reduce training costs by providing the same familiar Office applications as the front-end to business processes Increase end-user productivity and efficiency with convenient communication and collaboration features within the document authoring tools View presence in Outlook and in documents Initiate communication from within the same Office tools Workflow embedded into Word 2007 Presence embedded into Outlook 2007

$230 / PC$580 / PC$1,320 / PC Infrastructure Optimization Model Vista Enabled Best Practices IT Labor Best Practices Centrally managed PC config = $190 per PC Comprehensive PC security = $130 per PC Desktop standardization = $110 per PC RationalizedStandardized Basic “UAC will make it possible for users to run applications that require administrative rights while operating under Standard User rights. Not having this ability in Windows XP makes implementing this best practice difficult, and the often-required workarounds increase complexity. – Al Gillen, Research VP, IDC “For organizations with a diverse mix of hardware and a "thin" image strategy, Windows Vista will make it possible for them to attain a best practice of using a single image.“ – Al Gillen, Research VP, IDC Source:Optimizing Infrastructure, IDC 2006, Sponsored by Microsoft

The path to desktop optimization

Section 2 – How to Deploy Microsoft Deployment Experience –Microsoft Deployment Experience – "How To Deploy" – Windows Vista and Office 2007 "How To Deploy" – Windows Vista and Office Alan Stone (Infrastructure Consultant) - Paul Devlin (Premier Field Engineer)

Start Initial Application Compatibility Testing with Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) Actively Evaluate Windows Vista, Office 2007 and the Desktop Optimization Pack What Should You Do? Give Us Your Feedback Plan Deployment with Microsoft Deployment Accelerator Pilot Windows Vista & Office 2007 in Your Enterprise

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