UK Desktop Deployment Centre of Excellence

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UK Desktop Deployment Centre of Excellence
Richard T. Mannion richard.mannion_at_microsoft.com
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What do we do?

• Our purpose is to provide workshop style
  sessions to work with customers partners to
  review their current desktop deployment
  processes, their short and longer term goals,
  deployment blockers, perceived deployment issues
  and then relate these to the 'art of the
  possible', with reference to Microsoft's desktop
  deployment best practices and the infrastructure
  roadmap.

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Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator
(BDD)
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How do we do it?

• Invited to the UK Deployment Centre of Excellence
  for a BDD scoping and envisioning day.
• Following initial day, at a later date, invited
  back for a more focused specialised day covering
  selected topics such as

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A typical day

• Highly interactive day focus on
  customer/partner pain points
• Discussion of plans for next 1-3 years
• Identify you are at in terms of deployment
  what would be their deployment Nirvana.
• Microsoft best practice guidance BDD coverage
• There is no Typical Day! No two sessions are
  the same

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A typical agenda

• Meet in Building 3 _at_ 930 for 1000 start
• 1000 -1115 Description of current situation,
  issues deployment Nirvana
• 1115 1130 Coffee
• 1130 1230/1300 High level overview of best
  practices aligned to customers current and
  desired states focused on cost reduction,
  stability flexibility
• 1230 1315 Lunch
• 1315 1430 Detailed discussion of pertinent
  areas of BDD plus overview of tools
  availability
• 1430 1445 Coffee
• 1445 -1530/1600 Discussion of short term wins
  through adoption of BDD practices tools
• 1530 1600 Close

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Who should attend from Customer/Partner?

• Ideally 6 attendees from customer
• Deployment/IT Manager
• Technical Person (AD implementation)
• Technical Person (Systems Management person)
• Technical/Managerial Person (Applictaion
  compatibility and packaging)
• Technical Person (Build/Deployment)

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How to Arrange a CoE Session

• Contact your TAM/Account team
• TAM/Account team will engage with my team
• Potential visit dates identified, and booked
• We do the rest!