Deploy Windows Devices and Apps (70-695): OSD Infrastructure
by Rhonda Layfield-Dwyer
In this course, you will learn how to assess existing hardware for Windows 8.1 compatibility, migrate users' data and settings, and install and configure Windows Deployment Service (WDS). You'll also learn about Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), Bitlocker, and Windows Activation methods and tools.
What you'll learn
In this course, you will learn how to assess existing hardware for Windows 8.1 compatibility using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Tool (MAP). User data is always an issue during migration; understanding how the User State Migration Tool (USMT) works will help keep your users happy with all their data and settings migrated properly. Setting up the infrastructure services Windows Deployment Service (WDS) and Microsoft Deployment Kit (MDT) is imperative to a proper deployment solution. Even if you are not going to deploy images via WDS or MDT, you will find that both are needed and provide invaluable features. Bitlocker pre-provisioning really helps to speed up your deployments, and you'll learn what other new features are available in Windows 8.1 BitLocker. All Windows OSs require activation, but there are different ways to plan and implement activation from Key Management System (KMS), to Multiple Activation Keys (MAKs), and it's all covered in this course.
About the author
For almost 30 years, Rhonda has helped people securely deploy, protect, and streamline their IT resources. She began her career in the US Navy where she spent 7 years as communications specialist with a top secret clearance. Later, as Sr. Security Analyst for an electrical utility company operating nuclear power plants, she discovered serious security flaws in software about to be acquired. She also consults for large customers showing how to quickly and cheaply roll out 50,000 Windows 7 desktop... mores, but there's one thing that she loves even more than solving IT problems: sharing what she has learned with other people.
Rhonda has a passion for learning products at the packet level and sharing that knowledge in her classes with clients large and small. She is a Setup and Deployment MVP, Desktop Deployment Product Specialist (DDPS), and MCSE on Windows NT, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003. Along with teaching she presents at international conferences such as Tech Ed US, Tech Ed EMEA, MMS, Techdays Belgium, Ireland, and Slovenia. She is the only person to have won Speaker Idol on two continents (US and Europe) and is often in the top ten speakers, as recently as Tech Ed Belgium (out of 91 sessions).
Rhonda has co-authored two books on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 with Mark Minasi and regularly contributes articles to Windows IT Pro magazine. She is currently working on her first deployment book, titled Mastering Windows 7 Deployment.