What a tangled mess…. Tackling Windows Complexity

8/12/97


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Table of Contents

What a tangled mess…. Tackling Windows Complexity

What I’ll talk about

Today’s Situation

Hardware configuration

Hardware related issues

Windows NT 4.0 HCL

Hardware Standards (oxymoron)

Windows Driver Model

WDM Bus Drivers

PPT Slide

WDM Device Tree

Windows Software Issues

Solutions

Managing large Installations Goals

Technology to make this happen

File/Document Management Client side caching

Connected to a Network

Working Off-line

Reconnecting to the Network

File/Document management (cont)

Directory Service

Centralized Management

Application Installation

App Deployment Model Assigned & Published Applications

Deployment Process

Remote Boot

Remote Boot (cont’d)

Remote Boot

Scenario: New Machine

Scenario: Existing Machine

Scenario: Machine Failure

Summary

Questions?

Author: robs