{"id":10327,"date":"2010-02-02T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10327"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:53:00","slug":"act-for-configuration-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10327","title":{"rendered":"ACT for Configuration Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those Configuration Manager teams in Redmond must be incredibly busy and well managed.&#160; They have two product developments going on (ConfigMgr 2007 R3 and ConfigMgr v.Next) as well as producing add-ons for existing products.<\/p>\n<p>The latest is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=567be755-1d64-471d-8376-6b463491654b&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Application Compatibility Toolkit for Configuration Manager<\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/systemcenter\/archive\/2010\/01\/29\/application-compatibility-toolkit-connector-update.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">blogged<\/a> about by Jeff Wettlaufer.&#160; The concept is simple enough; using ConfigMgr you can audit your existing desktops to see which applications you have.&#160; You can use this information to assess Windows 7 compatibility.&#160; It will also do the same for device drivers.&#160; This reads like MAP for Windows 7 taking on the power and scalability of ConfigMgr.&#160; MAP would be fine in a single office.&#160; ConfigMgr takes this to the WAN.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s another bow to the string for Windows 7 deployment in the Enterprise.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a8fb0ec8-3db9-476f-804d-d6da0d2a5ab1\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Configuration+Manager\" rel=\"tag\">Configuration Manager<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+7\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 7<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those Configuration Manager teams in Redmond must be incredibly busy and well managed.&#160; They have two product developments going on (ConfigMgr 2007 R3 and ConfigMgr v.Next) as well as producing add-ons for existing products. The latest is the Application Compatibility Toolkit for Configuration Manager as blogged about by Jeff Wettlaufer.&#160; The concept is simple enough; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ACT for Configuration Manager&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[60,108],"class_list":["post-10327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-configmgr","tag-configuration-manager","tag-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}