[WinPartners] Meeting next Monday at 12 PM in N43 Demo Center

[Alex Kozlov]

Hi Winpartners,

We are meeting next Monday 03-26-06 at 12 PM in N42 Demo Center.

Agenda for the meetings:

- Updates on Vista projects: activation; certificate generation;
applications compatibility; preparing for Phase 4 - Full support and
upgrading to Vista; 
- Winpartners feedback on their experience with Vista; Vista-release team is
in a process of evaluating existing hardware base at MIT to develop upgrade
recommendations for the MIT computing community; Please prepare a list of
machines you have been recommending to your users in the past 2 years and
send it  to the winpartners at mit.edu

- We are still waiting for more people to sign up for free Microsoft
classes. Please let me know who else want to participate. Here is a
description of these classes:

1) DDPF (Desktop Deployment Planning Funds) are used for a partner-delivered
deployment training and planning. This program has been designed to provide
mutual benefit to partners, customers, and Microsoft by introducing
customers to processes, tools, and qualified service providers (partners)
and to help move them toward realizing the benefits of a more efficient
infrastructure by deploying Windows Vista and Office 2007 to their desktops.
These are Funded By the BMO and Delivered by partners that are part of the
DDPS program.  The 3 day engagement is well defined so there is not
flexibility on how these funds can be leveraged.

Designed to provide key customers (identified by field and/or partners) with
a deployment plan to drive Deployment leveraging the Desktop Deployment
Solution Accelerator methodology. The customer will receive knowledge
transfer on our current tools and methodologies, initial guidance around
desktop deployment and a high level project plan from the partner.

2) free onsite class related to the Microsoft Application Compatibility
Toolkit.

This is 400 level technical training focused on enterprise tools for
inventory and management of application compatibility including
troubleshooting running applications as a standard user, testing with IE7,
and determining how applications will work with Vista.  The intended
audience is 10-15 IT professionals with experience in desktop management.
There is no cost for the training or for the ACT tool, although in a large
environment it would leverage SQL to store data.  The ACT team covers T&E
for the instructor.  The customer only needs to provide a classroom and each
attendee should plan to bring a machine running Vista.



Let me know if you want to add more to the meeting agenda.

Thanks,

Alexander Kozlov 
Windows Platform Coordinator
Software Release Team
Information Services & Technology
MIT
W92-148, Cambridge, MA 02139
 
Tel  (617) 253-5103
Fax (617) 258-8736