Business Desktop Deployment released
Both version of the BDD where released today. Enterprise and Standard can both be downloaded as well go to the Technet site that talks about it specifically. When you download the solution you get a series of documentation as well as templates that will allow you to make the decision on what version you want to use or not. BDD is a great solution accelerator in many ways depending how you want to leverage it. If you have a mid-sized company of say 500 people and you had to deploy amd implement a build process for desktops in your environement.
If you were to add multiple locations as well as different types of installs it becomes even more complicated. Standard allows you to do some touch installations for customers and the Enterprise version will allow you to do what they call Zero Touch on the desktops as well as servers. One of the main differences between the 2 versions is the number of desktops that can be handled.
Features with BDD
End-to-End Guidance for Efficient Planning, Building, and Deployment of Windows XP Professional and Office Professional Edition 2003 Real world experience and industry best practices Zero Touch Scenario A managed desktop environment Virtual PC 2004, allowing users to simultaneously run multiple operating systems The Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit Technical Guides Great tool to take a look at.
Many things can come from BDD
- Reduce operational costs and complexity by Automating the installation and change management for new users, new services, and new applications. Reduction in support call as well as provide a framework to migrate seemlessly.
- Improve customer satisfaction in a few ways. Decreasing time-to-customer-request completion as well as becoming able to meet the SLA that has been established for the customer.
- Increase repeatability by Reducing time to build new servers and workstations as well as deploy service packs. This will lower engineering costs as well you to leverage Web Services and cut back on engineering costs. Leverage the .Net Framework