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Here’s a quick checklist based on App-DNA’s experience on the front line of the
last six Microsoft OS and Service Pack migrations: It will give you hints for each step
of the migration, to help you Discover, Analyze, Plan, Remediate and Validate
(with some Business As Usual tips as well):
Discovery
1. Audit your App Estate
Detect what applications are out there
Map applications to users and the business
What is the app used for?
Who owns it?
Where is it? (source binaries and packaged applications)
Use all data sources to collect application information (Active Directory, desktop management
tools (like Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager)
Create raw list of all applications in your estate
We like Scalable Survey as a discovery tool
Analyse
2. Rationalize aggressively
Retire apps that no one uses any more
Consolidate apps that do the same thing
Streamline licensing costs, both in terms of utilization and how apps are used
(should you use something different?)
Communicate with business units
Consolidate older versions = creating and application standard across the enterprise
Build streamlined definitive software list
Prioritize applications: core, business critical, optional
Every app retired now saves $3500 in migration costs alone!
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Analyse
3. Scale the project
Determine size of migration project
Estimate work days and actual costs for each phase and total migration
Essential: ensure a budgeting tool is included in your migration planning process
Effort Calculator™ can help with the project
Plan
8. Create the migration plan
Define all phases of the project
Define all tasks that must be completed in each phase
Define pilot region/group
Define key milestones
Use Effort Calculator to help set realistic timelines
11. Packaging Remediation: give your Packagers/Developers the insight they need
Communicate remediation issues that applications encounter (to ISVs) without
requiring a trained resource
Use remediation advice from pre-migration app assessment
Informed packaging (and sequencing) is much more accurate
For non-MSI apps, use app-compat tool to automate the creation of MSI and SFT media
Result: faster packaging that’s right first time (and costs less)
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