Planning Deployment

Creating an application inventory is the main task you must complete when planning application deployment. You use the inventory to prioritize applications—determining which are not compatible with Windows 7, which you must repackage for automatic installation, and so on. The Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) provides tools for collecting an application inventory based on the production network. For more information about using ACT to inventory applications, see Chapter 5.

After creating an application inventory, you must take the following planning steps for each application in the list:

  • Priorities Prioritize the application inventory so that you can focus on the most important applications first. Focus on the applications ...

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