Stages in the Migration Process

Migrating the computers in an enterprise to a new OS consists of four key stages:

Plan—Evaluate your environment and draft the action plan for the migration.
Build—Prepare for the migration. Create the software packages for applications that are common to the entire organization and those applications that are specific to each function or group. Create the OS images for the different editions that you want to deploy.
Validate—Validate the migration solution.
Deploy—Deploy the new OS on target computers and restore the user settings and the software applications.

Note: For more information about each of these stages for a Windows 7 Migration, see http://www.ca.com/files/technologybriefs/client_manager_windows7_4901_229118.pdf.

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