Application Compatibility
Application compatibility is the number-one challenge listed by the various think tanks (including Microsoft itself) when moving to Windows 7 or Windows 8. Although this challenge is outside the scope of OSD, its importance cannot be stressed enough. You can perfectly plan and execute a Windows deployment to your organization but if a single critical application, say the CEO’s secretary’s day-planner application does not run correctly, the success of your entire deployment (and possibly your job) are now in jeopardy.
Microsoft’s Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) allows you to collect information about the various applications in your environment including a simple inventory as well as run-time diagnostics to identify ...
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