Designing Application and Update Deployments for Windows 7


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Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
Microsoft provides many technologies and tools to enable administrators to reduce time and cost associated with maintaining clients computers, specifically for making applications available to users and ensuring that client computers are automatically updated to minimize security vulnerabilities. This course demonstrates how to deploy and distribute applications to Windows 7 client machines in an Active Directory environment using Group Policy settings and System Center Configuration Manager. It discusses how administrators can make applications available to users through virtualization technologies, such as App-V, Med-V, RemoteApp, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). It also shows how to apply updates automatically to client machines using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and how to ensure client compliancy using Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA). This course is one of a series in the SkillSoft learning path that covers the objectives for the Microsoft exam: 70-686. Pro: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator. Passing this exam will earn the learner Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator certification.

Target Audience
Individuals undertaking high level Windows desktop administration certification, and possibly Windows Server Enterprise Support certification. The customer base will also include companies using Microsoft Windows desktop and server systems that need their IT staff certified to a high level.

Prerequisites
Individuals should have at least 3 years experience installing, configuring, and administering clients in a Windows networked environment; Familiarity with client administration in Windows Server; Experience with deployment of operating systems and applications; Familiarity with Windows Server management tools such System Center suite.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Designing Application and Update Deployments for Windows 7

  • recognize how to distribute applications using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2
  • use Group Policies to assign, publish, and upgrade an application
  • deploy applications using Configuration Manager 2007 R2
  • deploy an application to a computer through a GPO
  • match virtualization technologies to their features
  • design a WSUS deployment
  • recognize how to configure clients using Group Policy
  • approve and verify updates
  • design a WSUS deployment
  • configure Windows 7 clients using Group Policy
  • approve and verify Automatic Updates
  • use MBSA to assess client security compliance in a given scenario
  • Course Number:
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