MOC On-Demand: 20695-Deploying Windows Desktops and Enterprise Applications - On-Demand Course

  The Deploying Windows Desktops and Enterprise Applications - 20695 course is a 5-day course that is intended for students looking to learn how to assess operating system and application deployment options, determine the most appropriate deployment strategy, and then implement a deployment solution for Windows devices and apps that meets your environment needs.

The course will discuss operating system deployment scenarios ranging from high-touch solutions to zero-touch solutions. The course also covers technologies that students will use to implement these solutions, including the MDT and Configuration Manager.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Assessing the network environment to support operating system and application deployment tasks.
• Identifying the most appropriate operating system deployment strategy based upon organizational requirements.
• Assessing application compatibility issues and identify mitigation solutions to ensure that applications function successfully after an operating system deployment.
• Describing and configuring strategies to migrate user state during operating system deployments.
• Determining the most appropriate image management strategy to support operating system and application deployments.
• Describing and use the tools provided in the Windows ADK to prepare for and support automated deployment strategies.
• Identifying solutions to support PXE-initiated and multicast solutions when performing operating system deployment tasks.
• Configuring an operating system deployment strategy by using the MDT.
• Configuring an operating system deployment strategy using Configuration Manager.
• Integrating the MDT with Configuration Manager to support operating system deployment procedures.
• Implementing volume license activation and configuration settings for client computers.
• Customizing and deploying Microsoft Office 2016 to an enterprise network environment, and describe how to use the Windows ICD.

Target Student:This course is designed for experienced IT professionals who deploy, manage, and maintain PCs, devices, and apps across medium, large, and enterprise organizations. Typically, this courses audience has a desktop-support background, and have worked as Enterprise Desktop Administrators.

Students should possess the following experience before attending the course:

• System administrator level working knowledge of:
  Networking fundamentals, including common networking protocols, topologies, hardware, media, routing, switching, and addressing.
• Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) principles and fundamentals of AD DS management.
• Installation, configuration, and troubleshooting for Windows-based personal computers.
• Basic concepts of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security.
• Basic understanding of scripting and Windows PowerShell syntax.
• Basic understanding of Windows Server roles and services.

Section 1: Assessing the network environment for supporting operating system and application deployment
This section examines how you can create a deployment strategy by Working with life-cycle information, deployment tools and technologies, and licensing and activation information. It also explains how to plan and effectively perform preparation tasks for deploying Windows 10 client operating systems.

Topics :
Overview of the enterprise desktop life cycle
Assessing readiness for a desktop deployment by Working with Configuration Manager
Assessing deployment readiness by Working with MAP

Lab :
Assessing the network environment for supporting operating system and application deployment
Collecting hardware and application inventory by Working with Configuration Manager
Working with MAP to determine infrastructure readiness

Section 2: Determining operating system deployment strategies
This section covers the tools and strategies that are available to help you perform a successful operating system deployment. It also explains how to identify the most appropriate operating system deployment strategy for your environment, based upon organizational requirements.

Topics :
Understanding tools and strategies you can use for operating system deployment
Working with the High Touch with Retail Media deployment strategy
Working with the High Touch with a Standard Image deployment strategy
Working with a lite touch deployment strategy
Working with a zero touch deployment strategy
Alternative deployment strategies for Windows desktops

Lab :
Determining operating system deployment strategies
Determining operating system deployment strategies for a small network
Determining operating system deployment strategies for a medium-sized network
Determining operating system deployment strategies for an enterprise network
Installing the Windows ADK

Section 3: Assessing application compatibility
This section covers the process for addressing common application compatibility issues that students might experience during a new operating system deployment. The section also explains how to use the ACT to help inventory, analyze, and mitigate application compatibility issues.

Topics :
Diagnosing application compatibility issues
Mitigating application compatibility issues
Working with ACT to address application compatibility issues

Lab :
Assessing application compatibility
Analyzing applications for potential compatibility issues
Mitigating application compatibility issues

Section 4: Planning and implementing user state migration
This section introduces user state migration, and the tools and methods that are useful in the planning and implementation of a user state migration in the Windows software environment.

Topics :
Overview of user state migration
Overview of USMT 10.0
Planning user state migration
Migrating user state by Working with USMT

Lab :
Planning and implementing user state migration
Planning for user state migration
Create and customizing USMT XML files
Capturing and restoring a user state by Working with the USMT

Section 5: Determining an image management strategy
This section provides the information that students need to manage images to support operating system and application deployments. Specifically, the section describes the image formats and strategies for managing images.

Topics :
Overview of the Windows image file format
Overview of image management

Lab :
Determining an image management strategy
Assessing business requirements to support an image management strategy

Section 6: Preparing for deployments by Working with the Windows ADK
This section covers how Windows Setup installs the Windows operating system. It explains how to use the tools in the Windows ADK to prepare for and support automated deployment strategies. It also explains how to use the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) to prepare boot images.

Topics :
Overview of the Windows setup and installation process
Preparing boot images by Working with Windows PE
Working with Windows SIM and Sysprep to automate and prepare an image installation
Capturing and servicing a reference image Working with DISM
Working with the Windows ICD

Lab :
Preparing the imaging and Windows PE environment
Configure a custom Windows PE environment

Lab :
Building a reference image by Working with Windows SIM and Sysprep
Building custom answer files by Working with Windows SIM
Installing a reference computer by Working with a custom answer file
Customizing your image in audit mode, and preserving the profile changes by Working with Sysprep

Lab :
Capturing and servicing a reference image
Capturing a reference system image

Lab :
Working with the Windows ICD
Create a provisioning package
Create a Windows 10 deployment package

Section 7: Supporting PXE-initiated and multicast operating system deployments
This This section describes introduces the architecture of network boot, Pre-Boot EXecution Environment (PXE)-initiated operating system deployments, multicasting operating system delivery, and the Windows Deployment Services (Windows DS) functionality in Windows Server 2012 R2.

Topics :
Overview of PXE-initiated and multicast operating system deployments
Installing and Configure the Windows DS environment

Lab :
Configure Windows DS to support PXE and multicast operating system deployments
Planning the Windows DS environment
Installing and Configure the Windows DS server role

Section 8: Implementing operating system deployment by Working with the MDT
This section covers the components of the MDT, and how you can configure an operating system deployment strategy by Working with the MDT.

Topics :
Planning for the MDT environment
Implementing MDT 2013 Update 2
Integrating Windows DS with MDT

Lab :
Operating system deployment Working with the MDT
Planning for the MDT environment
Installing MDT 2013 Update 2, and addressing MDT prerequisites
Create and Configure the deployment share
Deploying and capturing a reference operating system image

Section 9: Managing operating system deployment
This section provides an overview of operating system deployments, and explains how to use Configuration Manager to configure an operating system deployment strategy.

Topics :
Overview of operating system deployment
Preparing a site for operating system deployment
Deploying an operating system

Lab :
Preparing the site for operating system deployment
Managing the site system roles used to support operating system deployment
Managing packages to support operating system deployment

Lab :
Deploying operating system images for bare-metal installations
Preparing the operating system image
Create a task sequence to deploy an image
Deploying an image

Section 10: Integrating MDT and Configuration Manager for operating system deployment
This section discusses how to integrate the MDT with Configuration Manager to support operating system deployment procedures. It also describes the benefits of integrating the MDT with Configuration Manager.

Topics :
Integrating deployment tools with Configuration Manager
Integrating MDT with Configuration Manager

Lab :
Integrating MDT and Configuration Manager for operating system deployment
Integrating MDT and Configuration Manager
Create an MDT boot image
Create and deploying an MDT task sequence by Working with Configuration Manager

Lab :
Configure UDI
Create a UDI task sequence
Deploying Windows 10 by Working with a UDI task sequence

Section 11: Activating clients and managing additional configuration settings
This section covers volume license activation solutions. It also explains how to implement volume license activation and configuration settings for client computers.

Topics :
Solutions for volume license activation
Determining additional client configuration settings

Lab :
Configure additional settings for computer clients
Planning for Windows 10 customization
Configuring a common Windows Start menu and custom power plan
Create a client preferences GPO

Section 12: Deploying Office 2016
This section discusses how to customize and deploy Microsoft Office 2016 to deploy Office 2016 by Working with Office 365, and manage Office 2016 settings.

Topics :
Methods for deploying Microsoft Office 2016 editions
Customizing Office deployments
Deploy Office 2016 by Working with Office 365
Managing Office settings
Introducing Windows Store for Business
Distributing apps by Working with Windows Store for Business

Lab :
Deploying Microsoft Office 2016 by Working with the Office Customization Tool
Working with the Microsoft Office Customization Tool (OCT) to customize a Microsoft Office 2016 deploymen
Deploying a customized version of Office 2016