Windows Vista Migration Resources
Vista Deployment White Paper Series
You've been waiting months for the release of Windows Vista, and now it's here. But are you ready to make the move? New management solutions from Novell® can help. We've created this migration and management resource center to help you plan, manage and execute a successful migration including: analyst reports, best practices, web seminars and white papers. We'll be adding new items regularly, so check back often.
Vista Deployment White Paper Series
Novell is sponsoring a 3-part white paper series that will explore the technical challenges and important details that you need to consider when you migrate your systems to Vista. The series is being authored by industry luminary Bill Laberis, from Computerworld.Microsoft's Windows Vista forces IT professionals to make migration choices. IT pros must understand Vista's features and hardware requirements. Then they must take stock of their current end-user environment, form a plan of action and build a team to carry it out.
With a strategy in place and a team selected, businesses must use project management best practices to upgrade the systems according to priority and train users. Care must be taken to back up data; remote management tools can aid the process.
During the three-year Vista transition, end-user environments will be heterogeneous, since different versions of Windows will be running side-by-side. What are the best tools for managing this mixed environment? How can you use them to optimize performance and lower cost of ownership?
Bill Laberis was editor-in-chief of Computerworld for ten years, and under his leadership they earned over 80 prestigious awards. Often quoted in the business media as an industry spokesman, Bill wrote for several publications including the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, and was also a frequent contributor to panel sessions at major industry trade shows and served on the boards of advisors of several major conferences.
Bill was also founder and president of Bill Laberis Associates, and was responsible for all the content and design creation for the quarterly magazine Microsoft Executive Circle Magazine, read by more than 120,000 business and technology managers in North America and produced from 2001-2005.