Swimage Objectives
Design Objectives
The overall design of the deployment process requires careful attention to requirements and objectives for your organization. Failure to overcome these challenges will result in a process that remains stagnant and inefficient, which will ultimately raise the cost associated with the management of the PC client.
Reduce Costs
- Hardware Management
- Extend life
- Properly manage life
- Vendor flexibility
- Software Licenses
- Remove unused applications
- On-demand provisioning
- License metering
- Asset management
- Infrastructure
- GPO extensions
- Reduce server requirements
- Consolidate application source
- Increase bandwidth
- Support
- Service desk
- Short staffed
- Knowledge-base
- Self-service
- PW reset tools
- Control rights
- 45 min reimaging policy
- Imaging
- Hardware independent
- Control over image patching
- Version control
- Patches
- Manage patches by exception
- Run patches for image creation from SCCM
- Application install/deployment
- Package -Package -Package
- If not package, centralize the source
- Break-fix
- Data Management
- Full image (safety net)
- Restore known/supported data
- Iron Mountain
- Asset Management
- Application Inventory
- Lifecycle Management
- Record of fixes and transfers
- Disposal
- Record of disposal
- Data Management
- Service desk
Improve User Experience
- Self-service Migrations
- Minimize downtime
- Increase productivity
- Training
- Spare computers/parts
Maintain Security
- Maintain Encryption
- Control Local Admin Privilege
- Local Admin Password
- Remote/Home User Management
- NAP/NAC Support
- Media control
Optimized Desktop Vision
As part of the initiative, the following objectives must be maintained in the overall vision:
• Desktop standard: All desktops configured the same way equates to predictability and scalability. It is with predictability that machines can be managed on a large scale with a small number of people.
• Single image: A single image, which works universally on all hardware models, ensures that the desktop architecture standard is maintained, which simplifies management substantially.
• Modular build: Modularity ensures that components can be introduced and tested into the build independently, which assists in maintaining a single, standard image, while improving stability and change management.
• Automated: Automation of repetitive tasks makes the PC desktop more efficient and consistent, enhancing reliability and predictability.
• Repeatable: Performing the same step once or a thousand times should have exactly the same result.
• Maintainable: As the environment changes, including policies, hardware, and software, so must the process. Simplifying the maintenance ensures that the overall goals are maintained.
• Scalable: Scalability ensures that the process remains consistent and manageable as it is introduced into very large environments.
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