2001: a great year in technology Named Best of Whats New Named
Best New Product Awarded Best Product Recognized as a Favorite New
Thing in the Operating System Software Category
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April 8, 2014 On April 8, 2014 Windows XP will no longer be
supported. Thank you for being a Windows XP customer! Windows XP
End of Support April 8 2014 Windows XP Launch October 2001
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Choices, choices
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Youre not alone 44.3% June 2013
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What does end of support mean? After April 8, 2014, there will
be no new security updates no non-security hotfixes no free or paid
assisted support options no online technical content updates
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4 Good reasons why not
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Security risk
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Key Threats Melissa (1999), Love Letter (2000) Mainly
leveraging social engineering Key Threats Organized Crime,
potential state actors Sophisticated Targeted Attacks Operation
Aurora (2009) Stuxnet (2010) Flame (2012) Windows XP Windows 8
Threats have evolved 199520012004200720092012
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XP zero day vulnerabilities Still on XP on April 2014?
forever
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Hardware & software support
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XP support costs Organizations that continue to retain a
Windows XP environment not only are leaving themselves exposed to
security risks and support challenges but also are wasting budget
dollars that would be better used in modernizing their IT
investments. - IDC Whitepaper (May 2012) Annual cost per PC per
year for Windows XP is $870, while a comparable Windows 7
installation costs $168 per PC per year. That is an incremental
$701 per PC per year for IT and end-user labor costs - IDC
Whitepaper (May 2012)
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Employee technology experience
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Microsofts product lifecycle Support providedMainstream
SupportExtended SupportCustom Support $$$ Paid supportXXX Security
update supportXXCritical Only Non-security hotfix support
XPartialPer fix fee No-charge incident support X Warranty claimsX
Design changes and feature requests X Online supportXXO April 14,
2009April 8, 2014Dec 31, 2001
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If you need to ask how much. you probably cant afford it! Take
Gartners advice
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Custom XP support Spend money on moving off Windows XP in 2013
instead of spending it on Custom Support of Windows XP in 2014
& 2015. - Michael Silver, Stephen Kleynhans (Jan 2013)
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Denial There are too many XP customers Anger Why are we being
forced to upgrade? Bargaining Lets get an exception made Depression
Theres just too much to do Acceptance OK. Lets modernise our
desktop >:O>:(;-):-( :-)
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YOU DONT HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING, BEFORE YOU DO SOMETHING.
AssessAnalyse Sleepless nights Assess some more Evaluate
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On XP today Thinking about upgrading Start NOW! Move directly
to Windows 8.1 Migrating to Windows 7 Carry on! Finish deploying
Windows 7 On XP and Windows 7 today Plan for Windows 8.1
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! Do reduce the app count Dont get wrapped around the wheels
Dont try to remediate every last app before deploying Do prioritise
apps that are business critical Do take the opportunity to
virtualise
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Dependencies Heatmap 36 Why a heat map? Questions to answer:
Who is doing what? What part of my infrastructure need work Are
there gaps within or between projects? Is everybody on the same
page?
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Windows XP end of support April 2014 (but you already knew
that!) The world wont end, but your career could. Migrating to
Windows 7; keep going Still on XP; start migrating right now!
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Head to... aka.ms/te
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Applications COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf), Custom, Internal
and External Web Applications, Office Documents and Applications
Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6 Inventories, tests,
and remediates applications for compatibility issues with Windows 7
and Windows 8
http://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=7352
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 8 Includes inventory
collection and analysis for migrating to Windows 7 and Windows 8,
Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, and Microsoft Office 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=7826
Microsoft Office Code Compatibility Inspector Used with Microsoft
Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft Word 2010, and
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to troubleshoot and resolve issues
with Microsoft Visual Basic for Application (VBA) Macros and
add-ins
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15001
Microsoft Office Environment Assessment Tool (OEAT) Scans for
add-ins and applications that interact with Microsoft Office 97,
Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003,
the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and Microsoft Office 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5857 Office
Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) for Office 2010 A collection of
tools that helps you prepare an environment for migration to
Microsoft Office 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11454
Office 2013 compatibility guide Assess Office compatibility by
using Telemetry Dashboard and the modern Office compatibility
process http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee819096.aspx
Overview of Office TelemetryProvides information about Office
Telemetry, the new compatibility monitoring framework that works
with Office 2013, Office 2007, and Office 2003
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj863580.aspx
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NameDescriptionLink Windows Optimised Desktop Scenarios The
Windows Optimised Desktop Scenarios relate the IT and user business
requirements for a flexible, efficient, and managed desktop
environment to sets of complementary Microsoft technologies. The
guide and supporting tool in this Solution Accelerator use five
standard user scenarios such as Office Worker and Mobile Worker to
map requirements to technologies.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/C/5BC966
BC-47D8-41DF-95F2-
FA9A2D816258/Windows_Optimized_Desktop_Scenarios. zip Windows
Deployment Services This guide outlines the critical infrastructure
design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of
Windows Deployment Services. The six-step process in the guide
should result in a design that is sized, configured, and
appropriately placed to enable rapid deployment of Windows
operating systems. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160988
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 This guide provides
actionable guidance for planning your application virtualisation
infrastructure. This IPD guide now includes information on how
App-V supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, including such
features as BranchCache; support for 64-bit clients; and
server-sizing data. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160978
Windows User State Virtualisation (USV) This guide helps IT get
started planning a Windows USV solution. It can be difficult for IT
to find the right balance between centralised management of
business-critical data and a rich user desktop experience. Follow
the stepwise approach in this IPD to gather relevant user and IT
requirements. Then compare and contrast the Windows USV
technologies (Folder Redirection, Offline Files, and Roaming User
Profiles) in light of scenarios that are relevant to your business.
Also, leverage the real-world guidance based on subjective analysis
of Windows USV deployments in mid to large organisations, and
interviews with subject matter experts.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=200543 Print Services This
guide provides you with key information to bring your print
infrastructure up to date, saving you time and money. Strategically
planning your print infrastructure can help you serve your
customers more reliably. Use this guide to determine the scope of
the services and choose to partially or completely redesign your
infrastructure. Each phase is thoroughly explained in
easy-to-follow steps, helping you to efficiently navigate through
the process of managing your infrastructure.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160979 Windows Server 2008
R2 Remote Desktop Services This guide lays out the key
infrastructure design elements that are integral to a successful
implementation of Remote Desktop Services. The reader is guided
through the nine-step process of designing components, layout, and
connectivity in a logical, sequential order. Identification of the
RD Session Host farms is presented in a simple, easy-to-follow
process, helping the reader to design and plan centralised virtual
data centers. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177881