Entries tagged with ipd - TechNet Edge

Tools to plan and deploy Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

David Tesar — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:28:00 GMT

I sat down with Mary Anne Blake, Baldwin Ng, and Melissa Stowe to help you learn how the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT), Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 (MAP), and Infrastructure Planning and Design guides (IPD), can help you deploy Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2. With so many tools, which one should you use when? What are some limitations of each tool?

Here's how the interview breaks down:

How IPD guides will help with Win7 / R2 migration
Where IPD guides won’t help
[3:37] What the MAP toolkit can do to help with your migration
[7:48] Requirements to install MAP
[10:29] How the MDT will help with your deployment of Win7 R2 and how the MDT works
[14:53] When you might run into limitations with the MDT
When you should use the SCCM integration option versus the standalone MDT.
[16:08] How many machines to have minimum return of investment to use the MDT?
[17:00] One Tip/Trick for each of the IPD, MAP, and MDT

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Server 2008 Active Directory IPD guide

David Tesar — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:59:00 GMT

In this interview, I met up with Charles Denny on the solutions accelerator team who is in charge of the infrastructure and planning guide for AD (this is the next generation of the (WSSRA) guides. We talk about the purpose of this guide and dig into information in the guide which might be useful to you such as his viewpoint on one of the most difficult business decisions which need to be made in an AD environment.

There is tons of documentation out there on how to technically do things with AD, but until now with the IPD, there is not very much with how to successfully design your infrastructure and the decisions which need to be made along the way. For instance, divestitures in deciding what forest design to choose is one important factor to consider. This guide will help you in migrating to Windows Server 2008 from a needed angle.

To take a look at the beta to the TS and AD guides, go to the Connect site by clicking here if new or here if already enrolled.

Also, the guides for the below can be found here:

Infrastructure Planning and Design Series Introduction

Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology

SoftGrid Application Virtualization

Windows Server Virtualization (for Windows Server 2008 virtualization and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1)

Server 2008 terminal services infrastructure planning & design guides (IPD)

David Tesar — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:35:00 GMT

I met up with a couple people in the solutions accelerator team responsible for creating the next generation of Windows System and Server reference architecture (WSSRA) guides. In this video,we get an overview from the program manager (~7 min) and then we dig into deeper details with the beta Windows Server 2008 terminal services infrastructure planning and design (IPD) guide creator. To take a look at the beta to the TS and AD guides, go to the Connect site by clicking here if new or here if already enrolled. Check it out and see how IPD can help you plan and design your environment moving to Server 2008.

Here's a breakdown of the video:
Interview with Robin Maher (program manager for IPD)

0:00-0:50	What the IPD solution accelerator team does
0:50-2:50	History on what WSSRA is, how the new IPD guide fits in and its benefits.
2:50-4:15	How the WS08 guides apply to existing designs & how it helps with business decisions.
4:15-5:57	We've created an overview document, selecting the right virtualization technology, softgrid, and Windows Server virtualization technology guides here. Terminal Services, AD, and WDS guides are going into beta soon. Homepage for IPD here.
5:57-7:05	Comparison of IPD to the MAP. (for the interview with the MAP PM, go here)
7:05-7:33	Walk over to Fergus's office, see a MS security guard, and learn about the patent to the guides.

Interview with Fergus Stewart (terminal services IPD guide creator)

7:33-9:05	Intro into what his guide covers at a high level
9:05-11:55	How they come up with the matrix of decisions and how it compares to the terminal services book from MS Press. IPD guides are not an education on the product, just helps you make decisions for up front planning.
11:55-12:27	1st step in the TS guide: figuring out the scope
12:27-12:58	2nd step : determining which applications to deliver through TS
12:58-15:06	What applications are to use through TS? Multiple versions of products, video intensive applications and considerations.
15:06-16:55	Why determining which applications to deliver through TS is the most difficult step to take.
16:55-19:43	How does Soft Grid fit into decision making with TS?
19:43-22:55	Legal and political considerations in delivering your app through TS

For the rest of the video, check out the "Over the Edge" with Fergus Stewart. This installment includes: the declaration of independence, his claim to becoming a U.S. citizen, Argentinean Tango dancing, and see a Mayan temple from Guatemala.