{"id":91,"date":"2005-02-10T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-08T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T13:11:19","slug":"microsoft-solution-accelerator-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--110806170794118352-->Last week, I spent three days learning about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/itsolutions\/cits\/dsd\/bddoverview.mspx\">Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment<\/a> (BDD).<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft:<\/p>\n<ol>&#8220;The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment delivers end-to-end guidance for efficient planning, building, testing, and deploying Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, and Office Professional 2003 Editions. It helps IT professionals realize a quick return on investment while also setting new standards for reliability, performance, security, and ease of use.&#8221;<\/ol>\n<p>Basically, BDD is a framework for successful Windows XP desktop deployment. A collection of guidance, sample templates, tools and scripts, wrapped around a Windows XP and Office 2003 installation source, BDD version 1 has been around for some time now, and version 2 has two variant editions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=DFCF75F8-B353-4F5B-BB32-073B36E81F82&#038;displaylang=en\">BDD Standard Edition<\/a> is intended for medium sized organisations, enabling a highly automated (light touch) desktop deployment, requiring a LAN infrastructure with at least one server and sufficient space to store all of the working files and images (although Microsoft do recommend the use of Active Directory and Remote Installation Services) as well as either PowerQuest DeployCenter 5.5 or Symantec Ghost 8.0 and Windows PE 2004.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=BA01966D-68E0-4EAA-9C89-A60BC620425F&amp;displaylang=en\">BDD Enterprise Edition<\/a> is intended for large enterprises, utilising Active Directory, Remote Installation Services, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) 2003 (with the Operating System Deployment Feature Pack) to deliver a zero touch deployment. To use all of the features in BDD enterprise Edition, including provisioning, Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Server 2005 are also required. In short, BDD Enterprise can use just about every element of the Windows Server System.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both editions additionally rely on the Microsoft User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) 2.6, Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 3.0, Microsoft Office Access 2003 Conversion Toolkit, Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2, and Office Professional 2003 Edition Service Pack 1.<\/p>\n<p>The crossover between the two BDD variants (in terms of the cost of development vs. the number of desktops) is somewhere between 500 and 2000 desktops and the BDD framework scales up to a deployment of many thousands of PCs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working with unattended operating system builds for many years, and the consultancy that I work for (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conchango.com\/\">Conchango<\/a>) already has a highly automated standard operating environment (SOE) process, built around the same technologies. BDD is a formalisation of existing best practices, packaged in a manner that allows an organisation to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a software and hardware inventory to assist in deployment planning.<\/li>\n<li>Test applications for compatibility with Windows XP Professional and mitigate the compatibility issues discovered during the process.<\/li>\n<li>Set up an initial lab environment with deployment and imaging servers.<\/li>\n<li>Customise and package core and supplemental applications.<\/li>\n<li>Automate desktop image creation and deployment.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that the desktop is hardened to improve security within the environment.<\/li>\n<li>Manage processes and technologies to produce a comprehensive and integrated deployment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even with BDD in place, rolling out a new standard desktop to hundreds or even thousands of computers, possibly spread across the globe, is not a trivial task and is likely to include a large team of people. In fact BDD is based around the idea of feature teams, each of which is responsible for one area of the solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/bddoverview.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BDD Standard and Enterprise Editions\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/thumbnails\/bddoverview.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As can be seen from the diagram above (which relates to BDD Enterprise Edition &#8211; BDD Standard Edition does not include provisioning), at the heart of BDD is the business case, and project management. Surrounding this function are the feature teams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Application compatibility remediation &#8211; discovering which applications are in use, which are to be migrated, and investigating application compatibility.<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure compatibility remediation &#8211; analysing the current state of the infrastructure, to determine whether it is suitable to support the implementation of the new business desktop, then implementing new infrastructure as required. For example, does the network have sufficient bandwidth? Where are the bottlenecks? Are all of the PCs of a suitable specification to run Windows XP? How many will need to be replaced? etc.<\/li>\n<li>Computer imaging system &#8211; which technologies will be used for deployment? Will this be zero touch or light touch? How many images will there be and what is the basis for creating a separate image? (e.g. functional images, or hardware variations). Functional images can be difficult to manage because of the number of images to keep up to date and in general the number of images should be minimised (in my last company we had just two, hardware-based, images for the various PC models across Europe). Where there are specific hardware concerns, it may be more cost-effective to replace some PCs than to develop an separate image for a particular computer type.<\/li>\n<li>Core and supplemental application packaging &#8211; packaging those applications which will be included within the image (generally just Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader and some system software), and those supplemental applications that need to be deployed on a per user or per group basis.<\/li>\n<li>User state migration &#8211; to be avoided wherever possible, user state migration is problematic and time consuming &#8211; therefore expensive; however, it is very rare that a deployment will not require the transfer of files and settings.<\/li>\n<li>Securing the desktop &#8211; security should be included in every area of the design, but it is still necessary for someone to take control of the overall security for the desktop.<\/li>\n<li>Deployment process &#8211; the process of actually getting the software into PCs throughout the organisation.<\/li>\n<li>Preparing for operations &#8211; involving operations staff in the project, to ensure that the new platform is taken on board and managed well by the people who are often under-appreciated and over-utilised, and whose buy-in can ensure the success or failure of the entire project.<\/li>\n<li>Upgrading Office &#8211; ensuring that Microsoft Office functionality is unaffected by the upgrade, paying attention to file versions, macros, file locations, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Provisioning &#8211; allowing staff to help themselves &#8211; provisioning may be as simple as providing a website for users to reset their password after answering a few security questions, or it may be a process to request a new application, with full workflow throughout the approval process right up to the automatic deployment of the application to the desktop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course some roles may be combined, depending on the size of the organisation. In fact the whole point about BDD is that it is designed to scale.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamental to the whole process is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/itsolutions\/msf\/\">Microsoft Solutions Framework<\/a> (MSF). MSF provides people and process guidance to help teams and organisations become more successful in delivering business-driven technology solutions to their customers. It is a deliberate and disciplined approach to technology projects based on a defined set of principles, models, disciplines, concepts, guidelines, and proven practices from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/msfprocess.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MSF Process Model and BDD\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/thumbnails\/msfprocess.gif?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the heart of MSF is the process model, which includes a five stage lifecycle for the solution. Based on phases and milestones, at each stage there are clear requirements in order to justify the ongoing cost of development. For example, there is no value in spending time, effort and money on planning the solution until the vision and scope for the project has been agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The vision may be a single global desktop but the scope may impose restraints on this. In my opinion, envisioning is one of the most important areas of any desktop deployment and is also one of the most overlooked, generally because a customer can&#8217;t see the value in up-front planning and needs to be seen to deliver something to the business as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>As the solution is deployed (and during preparation for operations), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/itsolutions\/cits\/mo\/mof\/\">Microsoft Operations Framework<\/a> (MOF) is employed to provide operational guidance for the management of the solution. MOF is based on the UK government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itil.co.uk\/\">IT Infrastructure Library<\/a> (ITIL) &#8211; the most widely accepted approach to IT Service Management in the world &#8211; and is fundamentally split into a set of models: a process model, a team model and a risk management discipline, as well as a set of service management functions.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MOF Team Model\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/mofteam.gif?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The MOF team model organises the IT operations group into several role clusters &#8211; individuals or groups who perform related activities to accomplish a particular component of an IT service, based on industry best practices for structuring operations teams. MOF then provides additional guidance that applies collectively and individually to the role clusters.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MOF Process Model\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/mofprocess.gif?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The MOF process model assumes that the main responsibility of the IT operations group\u00c2\u2019 is managing change in the IT environment. The most effective way to deal with change throughout the lifespan of a service is to group related changes together into a package called a release, so that the changes can be planned and managed as a unit. The MOF process model describes a life cycle that can be applied to any release and the processes and activities that make up each part of that life cycle and groups similar service management functions (SMFs) into each of four quadrants relating to a specific mission of service.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MOF Risk Management Discipline\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/mofrisk.gif?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The MOF risk management discipline applies proven risk management techniques to the daily problems faced by operations staff. Many models, frameworks, and processes exist for managing risks and all share similarities in how they identify and manage risk. MOF applies key principles, along with customised terminology, structured and repeatable risk analysis and evaluation process, integrated within a larger operations framework.<\/p>\n<p>All of the above is just an overview &#8211; I recommend that anyone looking to manage a major desktop deployment considers using the BDD framework, and that any organisation running on a primarily Microsoft desktop and server platform takes a serious look at MSF and MOF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I spent three days learning about the Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD). According to Microsoft: &#8220;The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment delivers end-to-end guidance for efficient planning, building, testing, and deploying Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, and Office Professional 2003 Editions. It helps IT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[128,54],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-it-operations","tag-os-deployment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last week, I spent three days learning about the Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD). According to Microsoft: &#8220;The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment delivers end-to-end guidance for efficient planning, building, testing, and deploying Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, and Office Professional 2003 Editions. It helps IT &hellip; Continue reading The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2005-02-10T18:46:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2007-07-08T13:11:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/thumbnails\/bddoverview.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Wilson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@markwilsonit\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@markwilsonit\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Wilson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Wilson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468\"},\"headline\":\"The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework\",\"datePublished\":\"2005-02-10T18:46:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2007-07-08T13:11:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm\"},\"wordCount\":1590,\"commentCount\":6,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/images\\\/thumbnails\\\/bddoverview.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"IT Operations\",\"Operating System Deployment\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm\",\"name\":\"The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework - markwilson.it\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/images\\\/thumbnails\\\/bddoverview.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2005-02-10T18:46:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2007-07-08T13:11:19+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/images\\\/thumbnails\\\/bddoverview.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/images\\\/thumbnails\\\/bddoverview.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/02\\\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"markwilson.it\",\"description\":\"get-info -class technology | write-output &gt; \\\/dev\\\/web\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468\",\"name\":\"Mark Wilson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\",\"width\":800,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Mark Wilson\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\"},\"description\":\"A Chartered IT Professional, with recent experience in technology leadership, IT strategy and practice management roles, Mark Wilson is an Enterprise Architect in the Advisory and Management Group at risual. During a career spanning more than two decades, Mark has gained widespread recognition as an expert in his field including both industry and national press exposure. In addition to certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, The Open Group and Axelos, Mark held a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three years and is now part of the MVP Reconnect programme. Mark is also well-known on social media and maintains an award-winning blog.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/markwilsonuk\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/markawilson\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/markwilsonit\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UCWHlZCoHRTocdvtrOJ2IL4A\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/mark-wilson\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework - markwilson.it","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework - markwilson.it","og_description":"Last week, I spent three days learning about the Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD). According to Microsoft: &#8220;The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment delivers end-to-end guidance for efficient planning, building, testing, and deploying Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, and Office Professional 2003 Editions. It helps IT &hellip; Continue reading The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework","og_url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm","og_site_name":"markwilson.it","article_published_time":"2005-02-10T18:46:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2007-07-08T13:11:19+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/thumbnails\/bddoverview.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Mark Wilson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@markwilsonit","twitter_site":"@markwilsonit","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Wilson","Estimated reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm"},"author":{"name":"Mark Wilson","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468"},"headline":"The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework","datePublished":"2005-02-10T18:46:00+00:00","dateModified":"2007-07-08T13:11:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm"},"wordCount":1590,"commentCount":6,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/thumbnails\/bddoverview.jpg","keywords":["IT Operations","Operating System Deployment"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm","url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm","name":"The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework - markwilson.it","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/thumbnails\/bddoverview.jpg","datePublished":"2005-02-10T18:46:00+00:00","dateModified":"2007-07-08T13:11:19+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/thumbnails\/bddoverview.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/thumbnails\/bddoverview.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for.htm#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/","name":"markwilson.it","description":"get-info -class technology | write-output &gt; \/dev\/web","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468","name":"Mark Wilson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","width":800,"height":800,"caption":"Mark Wilson"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1"},"description":"A Chartered IT Professional, with recent experience in technology leadership, IT strategy and practice management roles, Mark Wilson is an Enterprise Architect in the Advisory and Management Group at risual. During a career spanning more than two decades, Mark has gained widespread recognition as an expert in his field including both industry and national press exposure. In addition to certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, The Open Group and Axelos, Mark held a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three years and is now part of the MVP Reconnect programme. Mark is also well-known on social media and maintains an award-winning blog.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/markwilsonuk\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/markawilson\/","https:\/\/x.com\/markwilsonit","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCWHlZCoHRTocdvtrOJ2IL4A"],"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/author\/mark-wilson"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":423,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/microsoft-solution-accelerator-for-2.htm","url_meta":{"origin":91,"position":0},"title":"Microsoft solution accelerator for business desktop deployment (BDD) v2.5 released","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Monday 22 August 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Thomas Lee reports that Microsoft have released updated versions of the business desktop deployment (BDD) enterprise edition and standard edition solution accelerators. As he provided my BDD training, Thomas knows far more on the topic than I do and his blog carries details of the improvements in BDD v2.5. If\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Microsoft Windows XP\"","block_context":{"text":"Microsoft Windows XP","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/windows-xp"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1784,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/04\/microsoft-solution-accelerators.htm","url_meta":{"origin":91,"position":1},"title":"Microsoft Solution Accelerators","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Thursday 22 April 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Microsoft's Solution Accelerators have been around for a while now and, as the name suggests, are intended to accelerate the deployment of solutions built on Microsoft technology.\u00c2\u00a0 Each solution accelerator is a free download from the Microsoft website but they don't seem to be as well-known as they should be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Microsoft\"","block_context":{"text":"Microsoft","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/microsoft"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1026,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/introducing-the-microsoft-deployment-toolkit-2008.htm","url_meta":{"origin":91,"position":2},"title":"Introducing the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Tuesday 25 March 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the sessions that I managed to catch at UK customer launch for Microsoft's 2008 products last week was Julius Davies' and Jason Stiff's presentation on Windows Server 2008 (and Windows Vista) deployment. I recently spent some time brushing up my deployment skills but there have been a few\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Microsoft\"","block_context":{"text":"Microsoft","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/microsoft"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":950,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/bdd-2007-overview.htm","url_meta":{"origin":91,"position":3},"title":"BDD 2007 overview","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Thursday 22 November 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been almost three years since I wrote a post about the Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) and since then it's been updated twice - first with BDD v2.5 and now with BDD 2007 (the latest version of which is now known simply as Microsoft Deployment). According\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Microsoft Windows Vista\"","block_context":{"text":"Microsoft Windows Vista","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/windows-vista"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":59,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/10000-feet-view-of-microsoft-systems.htm","url_meta":{"origin":91,"position":4},"title":"10,000 feet view of Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Thursday 10 February 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Until I started to look at the Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (Enterprise Edition), which makes use of the Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Operating System Deployment Feature Pack, I had no experience of using SMS. At my BDD training, Thomas Lee gave a brief overview of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/topic\/technology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":184,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/using-ads-to-deploy-windows-xp.htm","url_meta":{"origin":91,"position":5},"title":"Using ADS to deploy Windows XP","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Wednesday 19 October 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the main reasons for needing to SysPrep my Windows XP installation was that I wanted to see if it is possible to use Microsoft Automated Deployment Services (ADS) to deploy Windows XP. Microsoft has a plethora of deployment solutions and the main one for workstation deployment is the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Microsoft Windows XP\"","block_context":{"text":"Microsoft Windows XP","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/windows-xp"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}