{"id":10839,"date":"2010-09-03T19:27:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10839"},"modified":"2010-09-03T19:27:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T19:27:01","slug":"p2v-migration-for-software-assurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10839","title":{"rendered":"P2V Migration for Software Assurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just appeared in my inbox, regarding a new beta available on <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/site14\/Downloads\/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=30989\" target=\"_blank\">Connect<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cP2V Migration for Software Assurance uses the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Sysinternals Disk2VHD to convert a user&#8217;s existing Windows XP or newer client environment to a virtual hard disk then automates the delivery of an updated and personalized Windows 7 operating system containing a virtual machine with the user&#8217;s previous Windows environment, applications and Web browser. The user&#8217;s previous virtual desktop retains its existing management components, domain membership and policies. The process also publishes applications and the browser for the user to access them seamlessly within Windows 7&#8217;s start menu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Help Reduce Windows 7 Deployment Times<\/strong>: The ability to perform P2V conversion of Windows XP or newer 32-bit systems as part of Windows 7 and\/or 64-bit deployment means that IT organizations do not need to wait as long to get value from Windows 7. IT organizations will deliver the new Windows 7 operating system builds while preserving the old environments of a limited set of users that would otherwise delay production deployment.       <br \/><strong>Extend the Timeframe to Mitigate Application Compatibility<\/strong>: Using this solution, targeted users can have access to their previous set of applications, just in case something was not provisioned as part of the Windows 7 deployment. Accessing previous applications is also easy for end users, as those applications are published to the Windows 7 start menu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Users can Access Incompatible Legacy OS Applications<\/strong>: Using this solution, targeted users can have access to their previous set of applications, just in case something was not provisioned as part of the Windows 7 deployment. Accessing previous applications is also easy for end users, as those applications are published to the Windows 7 start menu\u201d.<\/em><\/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:d76e1622-9e08-4068-94a4-aed0e4a07999\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Deployment\" rel=\"tag\">Deployment<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+XP\" rel=\"tag\">Windows XP<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Vista\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Vista<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+7\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 7<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/MDT\" rel=\"tag\">MDT<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just appeared in my inbox, regarding a new beta available on Connect: \u201cP2V Migration for Software Assurance uses the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Sysinternals Disk2VHD to convert a user&#8217;s existing Windows XP or newer client environment to a virtual hard disk then automates the delivery of an updated and personalized Windows 7 operating system &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;P2V Migration for Software Assurance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[50],"tags":[174,77,195,108,123,124],"class_list":["post-10839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-deployment","tag-mdt","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-vista","tag-windows-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839","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=10839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}