Windows Vista is here, and IT organizations will soon face the immense task of planning, executing and managing the migration to a new operating system (OS). Delivering a working OS to the individual desk-top level is hard enough, but in the past, this job got even harder (and more time-consuming) because of poor planning, lack of processes and direction, and the use of manual or semi-automated management tools.

In addition, IT must provision the right applications to the right machines, migrate end user personal settings and provide the right application entitlements. Read this Vista migration best practices guide which walks through Vista:

• Planning
• Preparation
• Execution
• Ongoing management