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ACF Methodology
Our team, at ITC Infotech, will study the specific business requirements as well
as the system requirements in order to provide an efficient query management application,
which would form a base for our application. Depending on the type of application
running across the organization, our application would form an interface with these
applications, thereby enabling seamless integration of all the applications. This
would enable the availability of right information at the right time.
Project Initiation: Starting off the project kick-off meeting, we identify the desktops that participate in the ACF program. The objective is to identify those desktops that represent the customers’ application environment.
Collecting Information: Data collection packages (DCP) will be created for obtaining the information related to the applications deployed on the participating desktops. The DCPs will be in the form of MSIs and this will be deployed to the target desktops using the standard deployment tools within the customers’ environment. The DCPs will be configured to collect the data over a period of three days and outputting the logs to a common repository.
Analysis & Prioritization of Data: This is a very good time to determine what applications are required going forward and provides an opportunity to clean out the applications repository. Once the data starts coming in, it is recommended that a rationalization exercise be carried out to weed out multiple versions of same applications, applications providing similar functionality, security updates etc. The final list is then prepared and a sign-off is obtained.
The next step is to prioritize the applications based on their criticality to the business. This exercise is carried out in conjunction with the customer to identify and categorize the applications.
Test & Remediate: The next steps are to test the list of applications as per the ACF framework. These steps will involve understanding the application behavior on Windows XP and what its impact is on Windows 7. Based on the analysis, an assessment is carried out and it is based on the following:
- Compatible
- Has Minor Issues
- Incompatible
The remediation strategy will involve making use of Shims that are already published by Microsoft. The fix will be created for the apps with issues and tested. The application is then patched with the shims and published making it compatible with Windows 7. The toolkit has compatibility modes built-in with previous versions of Windows and this provides additional remediation.
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