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Enterprise Deployment ofMicrosoft Office 2007/8

How we migrated 9000 systems in a weekend

Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryMark Dietrich and Neal Mackanic

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So Office 2007 came out….

Spring 2007

Good reviews

Migrations started

No Office 2008 for Macs

Document exchange problems

Vista released too

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Spring 2007

Initially: Vista and Office

Formed a large project team

Team 1: Vista

Team 2: Office

Team 3: Windows 2000 EOL

Team 4: Training

Project started

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Spring 2007

Project Definition

Pre-configuration evaluation

Configuration and training

Testing configuration

Distribution methods

Additional capabilities

Team evaluations

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Wait for SP1 and reevaluate Wait for Office 2008 for the Mac

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One year later…Office 2008Vista SP1So we regroup

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Wait to resolve Entrust Proceed

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Current/Future State

Business Case

Benchmarking

Cost-benefit Analysis

User Impacts

Technology Impacts

Compatibilities

Deployment

Proposal

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CentralizedServices

CIO/Management

DirectorateMgrs/Techs

PMO/Project Manager

Formingthe Team

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PM w/PMP WBS

Project Plan SharePoint

DeliverablesMilestones

Reporting

Formal ProjectManagement

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NotionalTimeline

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DeploymentStrategy

Phased

Forklift

Optional

Attrition

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Distribution

PC’s:

Macs:

Targeted Multicasting

Unicasting

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TargetSystems

PC/Mac

Minimums

Current OS

Desktop

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Preparing users

Communications

Training

Demos

Flash help

Website

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EarlyAdopters

Gradual

Techs

Admins

Governance

NO

YES

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Communications

NewsOnline

Presentations

Flyers

Emails

Walkabouts

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Go/no-go

Pilot

Comms

Packages

Existing versions

War rooms

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Migration Weekend

Dashboards

Monitoring

Reporting

Staffing

On-call

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Closure

Cleanup

Documentation

Transition

Lessons Learned

Closure

22LLNL-PRES-413417 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Enterprise Deployment ofMicrosoft Office 2007/8

How we migrated 9000 systems in a weekend

Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryMark Dietrich and Neal Mackanic