Chapter 8: Working with Personality Captures
by Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest

Preserving the personal computing environment of each user is a critical step in mitigating the productivity impact of an OS migration and controlling its costs. As with the other engineering processes that are required to complete an OS migration project, this process includes several steps. These steps form the basis of this chapter. Once again, they are mostly performed by the PC team with support from the server team if network protection and backup has been included in the protection policy.

More: continued here

Chapter 7: Kernel Image Management
by Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest

System imaging is the key to the entire OS migration project. It is the most important aspect of this project as it outlays the foundation of your future network. Building a system and then capturing it for reproduction must be done carefully and with great precision. This is why the preparation of your logical solution is such an important step in the process. This lets you properly design the systems you will deploy. These activities are the focus of Chapter 7, with an emphasis on creating a system image which will support both application virtualization and standard software installations though you should aim to move to application virtualization since it provides a completely new way of managing applications and maintaining stability within deployed PCs. Virtualization protects the OS at all times and provides significant cost reductions for managed systems.

More: continued here