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You Will Learn How To
- Effectively implement and administer Windows 7 in an enterprise environment
- Create and deploy custom Windows 7 installation and Windows PE boot images
- Streamline deployments with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
- Develop a plan for managing initial and ongoing client activation
- Centralize administration through the GUI, shell commands, WinRS and PowerShell
- Locate and remediate issues with Microsoft monitoring, analysis and recovery tools
Course BenefitsCentralized administration and streamlined deployment have become attainable goals with Windows 7. New and improved Windows technologies, when properly implemented and managed, can help offset implementation costs and optimize daily administrative tasks. This course provides the knowledge and skills to leverage these technologies to deploy, maintain and administer client operating systems.
Who Should AttendHelp desk technicians, desktop administrators and anyone responsible for deploying and managing Windows 7. Knowledge of Windows client administration is assumed. Experience with Windows 7 at the level of Course 2400, "Windows 7 Comprehensive Introduction," is helpful but not required.
Hands-On TrainingThroughout this course, extensive hands-on exercises provide practical experience deploying and managing Windows 7. Exercises include:
- Building custom Windows PE boot media
- Creating and rolling out custom WIM files
- Installing Windows across the network with WDS
- Centralizing management with scheduled tasks and group policies
- Administering systems from the command line and with PowerShell
- Recovering modified and deleted files
- Analyzing and monitoring system performance
Course 2401 ContentIntroduction to Windows 7 Management
Planning an enterprise implementation
- Contrasting editions and features
- Justifying rollout costs
Building Windows PE
- Evaluating use cases for deployment and administration
- Exploring the filesystem and memory architecture
- Creating basic Windows PE boot media
- Customizing PE with DISM
Creating and Managing Custom Images
Configuring reference computers
- Selecting an imaging technology
- Automating installation with answer files
Authoring Windows Image (WIM) format files
- Generalizing the OS with Sysprep
- Capturing and deploying images with ImageX
- Preparing the filesystem with DiskPart
Maintaining image files
- Supplementing the driver cache via answer files
- Injecting updates and language packs with DISM
Automating Deployment Tasks
Migrating data to new workstations
- Relocating settings and files with Windows Easy Transfer
- Scripting user state transfers with USMT
- Retaining user data through hard-link data migration
Optimizing deployments of other Windows editions
- Coping with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 imaging limitations
- Scripting Windows Server 2008 roles
Customizing the Windows Imaging Process
Performing network installations with Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
- Adding custom boot and install images
- Optimizing rollouts through multicasting
Exploiting the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
- Configuring images with drivers and applications
- Building Lite Touch deployments
- Integrating MDT with WDS
Managing Windows Activation
Controlling volume license activation
- Maintaining Multiple Activation Keys (MAK)
- Implementing a Key Management Services (KMS) infrastructure
Dealing with activation issues
- Rearming Windows
- Assessing activation status with the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT)
Streamlining Windows 7 Administration
Unifying system configuration with group policies
- Contrasting user and computer-based settings
- Targeting GPO application with Scopes of Management (SOM)
Automating maintenance with Task Scheduler
- Creating tasks manually and via export/import
- Scheduling remote tasks
Controlling client desktops remotely
- Shadowing users through Remote Assistance
- Connecting to systems for administration with Remote Desktop
Working with command line tools
- Identifying the scope of shell commands
- Executing remote commands with WinRM/WinRS
- Extending command line functionality through PowerShell
MS Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)
- Application virtualization
- Desktop virtualization
- AGPM
- Asset Inventory Services
Optimization and Troubleshooting
Establishing effective recovery strategies
- Protecting data with Windows backup
- Simplifying recovery with previous versions and restore points
Improving system functionality
- Analyzing issues with the event viewer
- Monitoring performance trends
- Configuring Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Native Boot
Resolving application compatibility problems
- Compatibility mode
- XP mode
- Remote App
- App-V
Extending troubleshooting techniques
- Documenting application failures with Problem Recorder
- Diagnosing system errors with the MDOP toolset
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Tuition for Course 2401 (4 Days)
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"My organization is going thru a Windows 7 upgrade nationwide, and the Learning Tree course on Deploying and Managing Windows 7 is making it a lot easier for me to implement this change."
– L. Kendricks
IT Specialist
USDHS/ICE
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