Ok, if you're still on Windows XP, you probably feel a little tense at this stage - especially if you have not made significant plans already . What if you are on Windows 7, do you think about Windows 8?
Here are some ideas and resources that can help you on your way.
Launch
inaction is a common cause of delayed projects, over budget or simply fail. It is often the overwhelming magnitude of migration and all components that can cause a "deer in the headlights" situation. A good source to map our requirements is Windows 7 Migration Checklist - use to check the mental health where you are today and mobilize the activity you may be overlooking a more detailed working paper is also available and has been one of our most resources. Popular in recent years: Application Migration Workbook
See what you I do not know
unknown unknown can be the worst. the first thing is to find out what is there. the most effective way to do that is through some form of agent / agentless audit and inventory devices, users and applications. There are various solutions out there that provide varying degrees of information, but you should really think about getting something up or exploiting something you already have. Planning a no good empirical data migration is an accident waiting to happen -. Not to mention that you're likely to see time and spiraling costs without sizing specific project
The main actions you should consider
Take a centered view on applications on a migration process, you must consider these data points when performing an audit of the application:
- or managed-managed - if the applications are managed, access to installation media is easy. A managed applications can be more difficult and take time, and this should be taken into account
- Number of installations -. It is powerful notoriety to go in trying to understand how a widely deployed application is. Test an application with 10 deployments against 10,000 deployments will change the approach to testing
- Use / use -. This is just as powerful as the number of installations. Knowing that the application is deployed over 10,000 devices, but is used only 5,000 of these devices can enable significant savings in licensing. This information can also be used to inform the portfolio rationalization -. Similar applications in terms of functionality might be standardized on the basis of the application with the greatest number of users
- Licensing - migration is an ideal time to take stock of the licenses and the implementation of systems that measure and monitor licenses. Significant savings can be made both through streamlining, and on efficiency being
- business function -. categorize the functionality of an application enables a portfolio review. Applications used by different functions within a company with various functions can be compared with the number of users and types of use to determine criticality, replication and migration priorities.
"measure twice cut once"
This is a big word that I run a while. A problem with Windows migrations was the cost of the measurement process, which historically has involved a lot of manual effort. In fact, it was often a process "estimate and run". This changed dramatically since the days of Windows XP and where the technology AppDNA cut his teeth.
For example, the calculator of AppDNA efforts can import an entire application portfolio, identify problems and estimate the effort and cost. necessary to remedy these problems
it is not a abstract estimate - which is a real-world scenario, it looks your applications, your questions and can be changed to reflect your resources and resource costs
A quick online estimator is available here :. management ROI calculator applications
know your applications
Probably the most frustrating thing I've heard in the last five years was " if only we had known about you when we made our migration request ". Well, there is a new way of doing things - in fact, it is now a mature way of doing things - it is not so new addition, which makes tried and tested and robust than ever before
I will! talk about these issues and other topics Citrix Summit (15-16 October) and Citrix Synergy (17-19 October ) in Barcelona and would welcome the opportunity to discuss your project
| Mon, October 15 11 :. 00-11: 45 | SUM234 | deep dive on AppDNA for application migration |
| Thurs, October 18 15: 00-15: 45 | SYN109 | deep dive on AppDNA |
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