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Planning, Prototyping, Migrating, and Deploying Windows Server 2008
Best Practices
Determining the Scope of Your Project ..............................................40
Identifying the Business Goals and Objectives to Implement Windows
Server 2008 .................................................................................40
High-Level Business Goals........................................................41
Business Unit or Departmental Goals.........................................42
Identifying the Technical Goals and Objectives to Implement
Windows Server 2008 ...................................................................43
Defining the Scope of the Work ................................................44
Determining the Time Frame for Implementation or Migration...... 46
Defining the Participants of the Design and Deployment Teams..... 48
Contents
The Discovery Phase: Understanding the Existing Environment............. 49
Understanding the Geographical Depth and Breadth.................... 51
Managing Information Overload...............................................52
The Design Phase: Documenting the Vision and the Plan .....................52
Collaboration Sessions: Making the Design Decisions ................... 53
Organizing Information for a Structured Design Document ........... 54
Windows Server 2008 Design Decisions......................................55
Agreeing on the Design ...........................................................56
The Migration Planning Phase: Documenting the Process for
Migration ...................................................................................57
Time for the Project Plan .........................................................57
Speed Versus Risk ...................................................................58
Creating the Migration Document ............................................59
The Prototype Phase: Creating and Testing the Plan.............................62
How Do You Build the Lab? .....................................................63
Results of the Lab Testing Environment .....................................63
The Pilot Phase: Validating the Plan to a Limited Number of Users......... 64
The First Server in the Pilot......................................................65
Rolling Out the Pilot Phase ......................................................66
Fixing Problems in the Pilot Phase ............................................67
Documenting the Results of the Pilot.........................................67
The Migration/Implementation Phase: Conducting the Migration or
Installation .................................................................................67
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