A Small Business Rolls Out Vista and Office 2007

 

 

 

 

Alan is the top IT guy (as well as the only IT guy) for a small vibrant company call AGSI located in Hornby, Ontario, just west of Toronto. I visited him at their funky new office location earlier this week to talk about his Vista and Office 2007 deployment project. He's currently about 75% complete having rolled out 30 computers. Unlike larger organizations, a company like AGSI doesn't have a lot of automation in place and Alan has to be creative and well prepared in order to ensure the completion of the project ends up making IT functions more efficient rather than less and end users more productive rather than cranky and frustrated.

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Time Index (mm:ss) Topic 00:15 Description of AGSI's business and how they use technology 02:14 Background of their Vista rollout and how the project got started 03:28 Discussion of AGSI's plans to rollout SP1 for Vista 03:46 Number of desktops and notebooks that have been deployed to date 04:03 Challenges that Alan faced during the rollout 05:17 Solution that Alan put together to face that challenge 07:15 What the end user experience was like using Vista and Office 2007 08:51 Benefits of Vista from an IT perspective 10:43 Words of wisdom for anyone else contemplating rolling out Vista 11:59 Best practices that Alan used for a successful project

For more resources on Vista deployment, visit the Microsoft Springboard site.