Windows 8 Deployment Journey
In the beginning...
Hello world,
(may that never get old)
Please contribute to this work by adding your questions and experience in the comments section. This is not intended to be a complete review of Windows 8, I have listed some below. This will be a journal of my rode to deploying Windows 8 to a corporate environment with 85 local users and another 120 virtual users. We will deploy with Office 365 Enterprise licenses, SharePoint 2013, and CRM 2013. (Let me know if interested in those journeys.)
I just received my new Dell XPS 12 Touch. This device is amazing with a solid state drive. Which means it turns on when you turn it on, not after it thinks for a minute finds what it needs and then loads that in order to load the application to load the page you need to log in and load your profile, etc.
So my 3 year old windows 7 laptop was slow to start. But that has as much to do with amount of programs and junk that you accumulate over the years.
But I digress, lets talk about how I was surprised and confused with Windows 8, yet in the end I love it.
Key initial takeaways
- Users will need their own Microsoft Live account aside from their corporate domain account (even with Office 365)
- Ghost Image will not account for Apps that we may want to load for each user
- App review and recommendations are essential to successful user acceptance
- While the desktop is available to use in traditional manner, doing so will feel like eating soup with a fork.
- Basic work processes will change, I could not intuitively ind control panel, command line, etc.
- Windows 8 Training apps do the work for us, and are useful
- Touchscreen is not mandatory, mouse interaction works fine
A review of Windows 8.
CNET - Reviews of Windows 8 Devices
Of course I get to work and Excel freezes up. That's life. Lol.
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