Microsoft 70-416 Implementing Desktop Application Environ...

Explore a hands-on lab for Windows desktop application scenarios, covering server roles on 2008 Hyper-V and Server 2012, PowerShell, and presentation virtualization for exam-ready split environments.

Set up a lab with Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012, run Hyper-V, and deploy 2012 domain controller with System Center Configuration Manager and Operations Manager.

Set up a lab with a domain controller, several servers, and System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Operations Manager, plus Windows 7/8 clients to compare admin and end-user tasks.

Design a distribution environment for Windows desktop applications, outlining a framework and strategies to deliver applications across an organization.

Explore why applications drive end-user value, examine deployment infrastructure and client needs, and compare legacy and hybrid approaches for delivering desktop applications.

Explore why organizations rely on servers to deliver application-centric computing across devices, showing how users access essential apps—from weather to finance—via backend services and common infrastructure.

Analyze moving applications from local installs to server or web delivery, exploring thin clients, backend infrastructure, accessibility, cost, and return on investment considerations for interactive versus presentation use.

Delivering business applications to diverse users across manufacturing, warehousing, and design by providing access to data and tooling via PCs, tablets, and networks for production and shipping workflows.

Design an organization-wide application environment delivering accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and HR and maintenance apps, plus company-wide services like email and databases to desktop, tablet, and mobile users.

Explain how deployment infrastructure delivers apps to desktops, mobiles, and devices via networks and app stores, including servers, dns, dhcp, and ad, email, databases, and ongoing maintenance and updates.

Describe a planned server topology with domain controllers, email, payroll, file and printing services, back-end databases, web apps, citrix presentation, and deployment strategies for front-end clients and mobile devices.

Explore voip infrastructure across branch offices, integrating messaging, voice mail, trunking servers, firewalls, routers, switches, and video servers to deliver scalable, high-quality communications over diverse networks.

Assess local versus remote network conditions, including bandwidth, latency, uptime, and reliability, to tailor deployment strategies for applications, data storage, and offline access.

Identify user types such as light-duty, standard, and heavy users, and decide between server-based or local installs based on bandwidth, hardware needs, and home office byob.

Explore desktop and server deployment strategies, contrasting local installations with server-delivered and web-based applications (AbbVie, remote desktop services, Citrix) and their impact on network and desktop resources.

Design a distribution strategy for desktop applications, detailing how to plan, implement, and optimize delivery to users across environments.

Explore how business, infrastructure, and user needs drive application deployment, including GPO and Remote Desktop, plus maintenance, security, and the shift toward application virtualization.

compare presentation virtualization and application virtualization within Windows Server and Windows desktop environments, in the early planning phases, with a demonstration tied to capacity planning.

Compare presentation virtualization and application virtualization, explaining how a server runs apps and presents them to users. Learn client connections, and examples like Citrix ZenApp, MetaFrame, and remote desktop services.

Explore how HP thin clients connect to servers to deliver desktops without local resources. Compare newer and older models, mounting options, and the zero-client concept where the server provides processing.

Explore App-V, comparing server-based and client-based application virtualization. See how the server hosts the app while the local device runs it with a proxy client and uses local resources.

Explore how presentation server and remote desktop services deliver apps via session host and broker. Learn about application virtualization, streaming versus install, licensing, and System Center 2012 integration.

Explore Microsoft App-V desktop application virtualization, including sequencer workflows, package creation, and management server components. Apply the Microsoft Assessment Planning Toolkit to plan hardware, platforms, and scalable deployment.

Use the Map toolkit to create an inventory database, run discovery, and plan desktop virtualization across Windows machines, including credentials and networking for data collection.

Explore how the MAP toolkit collects performance data, builds desktop workload models, and helps plan desktop virtualization by assessing OS readiness, hardware, and deployment requirements.

Use map to assess readiness for Windows 8, evaluate app and hardware availability, and explore virtualization options; configure presentation virtualization, servers, and client delivery with app packaging.

Explore design considerations for a desktop deployment environment, comparing presentation and application virtualization, and plan upgrades and updates with a focus on total cost of ownership, demos, and supersedes.

Analyze the total cost of ownership for an enterprise application, including evaluation, deployment, licensing, maintenance, and training, noting that maintenance and updates account for 65–75% of tco.

Explore how to plan and execute updates and upgrades, covering pre-deployment considerations, update cycles, deployment methods, monitoring, automatic retries, rollback, and testing to minimize disruption and protect security.

Test updates for security and functionality using small pilot groups, then deploy within a structured timeline. Learn how resequence, wsus, and gpo workflows shape enterprise rollouts.

Configure Windows Server Update Services via Group Policy, set the Internet update service location, enable updates, select products and languages, and use the server wizard to manage synchronization and approvals.

Explore upgrade considerations for operating systems and applications, including 32-bit versus 64-bit architecture, coexistence of old and new versions, testing scenarios, and upgrade paths.

Explore supersedence and how upgrades transfer settings and files between Office versions. See how System Center 2012 enables packaging, deployment, virtualization with rollback decisions.

Review the revision history in Configuration Manager, identify who revised the Microsoft Office PowerPoint viewer 2007 English and when, and restore to a previous revision by checking the supersedes status.

Explore upgrade strategies and System Center management, focusing on ongoing support, maintenance, and user training, while planning the total cost and infrastructure to deliver desktop applications.

Explore application compatibility with microsoft tools such as ACT, learn how operating systems expose resources like USB, files, and the network, and understand configuration and permissions.

Explore how application compatibility across operating systems affects functionality, errors, and missing features, and learn how compatibility tools and workarounds address these issues.

Explore why migrating between Windows versions matters, from driver compatibility and installation differences to 32-bit to 64-bit architecture, deprecated features, and security changes like WFP and WRP.

Explain the shift from XP to Vista/7/8 permissions, how UAC prompts for elevation, and why Windows 8 runs all processes as standard users, impacting installers and updaters.

Explore how the application compatibility toolkit inventories existing applications, analyzes compatibility, and guides fixes or mitigations to run non-microsoft or other apps in new Windows environments, including client Hyper-V virtualization.

Identify and inventory apps, analyze compatibility from XP to Windows 7/8 and Server 2012, and build ACM-driven mitigation and runtime analysis packages to test and deploy fixes.

Explore hyper-v client virtualization and app-v to isolate and deploy apps in a virtual bubble, enabling testing, multiple versions, and enterprise desktop virtualization with minimal conflicts.

Use the application compatibility toolkit (ACT) to diagnose compatibility issues, configure log processing, and create data collection packages like marketing inventory and marketing run time.

Log into client systems, run inventory and marketing runtime packages as administrator to collect data. Then analyze results in the application stability manager, including Windows 8 and Windows 7 reports.

Use the application compatibility toolkit to inventory marketing apps, assign categories, set deployment status, and analyze client inventories to create shims and fixes for compatibility issues.

Learn to use the compatibility monitor and ACT toolkit to detect, capture information, and fix 32-bit application issues by creating fixes, running XP compatibility mode, and saving results.

Explore how X 6.00 simplifies application compatibility with Windows 8 and Server 2012, and outline testing during OS migrations for end-user apps. Compare deployment approaches from light to heavy infrastructure.

Explore deploying Windows desktop applications using group policy objects (GPO), covering basics, target selection, distribution points, assign versus publish, drawbacks, and a hands-on installation demo.

Leverage a lightweight GPO software deployment on Windows Server 2012 with existing AD and DNS, using a pull-based MSIE install and optional zap, noting its restrictions.

Explore the local and server-side group policy editor to tailor Internet Explorer settings, deploy software, and target audiences via Active Directory domain, site, security groups, and WMI filters.

Explore how to target software deployment with decisions on pc-based vs user-based licensing, location-based restrictions, vpn access, and bandwidth considerations in corporate environments.

Decide distribution points and locations across a multi-location corporate environment, using regional distribution points and per-site replicas (DFS) to regulate bandwidth and ensure timely software deployment.

Compare assign versus publish: assign auto-installs at boot, replacing old software, while publish offers optional, user-specific software like Office components under licensing constraints.

Explore the pros and cons of using group policy to deploy software, focusing on removal and management drawbacks, such as incomplete uninstalls, leftovers, and no centralized monitoring or verification.

Deploy applications via group policy within an Active Directory environment, creating an organizational unit and groups, and configuring assigned and published software through user configuration.

Learn to deploy desktop applications via group policy by publishing to users and assigning to computers, configuring user and computer policies, and validating with gpupdate /force during startup.

Deploy desktop applications via group policy by publishing to users and computers, managing installations like PowerPoint and Notepad, and comparing per-user versus per-computer deployments.

Deploy applications via GPO as a simple, proven method for desktop deployment, explaining policy objects, targets, and distribution points, and noting limitations of easy removal or centralized management.

Leverage Intune to deploy uploaded software from the cloud, manage clients across desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, and group users by devices or departments to streamline installs.

Explore how Intune cloud service provides multi-device management, endpoint protection, inventory, licensing, and remote assistance across Windows, iOS, and Android for remote and mobile teams.

Discover how Intune uses admin and user portals to deploy software, requiring an Intune client with dot net framework 3.5 and account certificates on Windows, Android, and iOS devices.

Group users and computers in intune to create subscription groups, synchronize with active directory, and bulk import external users for cloud-based deployments scalable to multiple accounts.

Upload software to the Windows Intune admin console, setting publisher, category, and 64-bit or 32-bit requirements. Deploy via internet-connected portals to Windows 8 tablets through the Windows Intune company portal.

Deploy software with Windows Intune by assigning to users or devices, setting availability and installation deadlines, selecting uninstall or do not install options, then finish to install and verify certificates.

Explore how the Intune cloud service enables centralized, secure PC management via a web-based console, with mobile device management and a 30-day trial.

Learn how to add, package, and publish software in Intune, configure installation options, detection rules, and deployment to devices via the company portal and Intune client.

Showcase the core admin of Windows Intune setup on a server, including manual installation, licensing, reports, and the company portal end users see with published applications and listed devices.

Demonstrates deploying the Windows Intune client via manual and automatic deployment, configuring licensing and certs, and enabling Active Directory synchronization to enroll devices and manage IT groups.

Publish and deploy packaged software with the Intune cloud service, completing the wizard to name, publish, and configure deployment to the all users group as available or required.

Master Intune basics by syncing, bulk importing, organizing users, uploading devices, and deploying software. Compare admin console and company portal workflows, monitor installation success, and anticipate cloud-based deployment growth.

Learn to deploy with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, covering collections, packages, and self-service, and see how the client enables software deployment and monitoring on Windows 8 devices.

Manage application deployment within System Center using Configuration Manager, install the agent, perform hardware and software inventory, enable remote control, and push WSUS updates with centralized reporting.

Collections group devices and users by attributes in System Center, enabling deployments, software updates, inventories, and maintenance windows via rules and predefined collections.

Learn how to deploy software across desktops using System Center by collecting inventory data, evaluating apps on each machine, and pushing updates or new applications back to endpoints.

Apply asset intelligence to consolidate hardware and software inventory, generate reports, and manage licensing in a centralized catalog, then create software packages stored in the library.

Explore a user-centric view of software distribution, comparing applications across devices and flavors, with Configuration Manager and Software Center guiding licensing, availability, and updates.

Compare apps and packages, revealing that a package is a controlled, limited software bundle for specific deployment, while an application offers broader deployment, permissions, and discovery through an application catalog.

Coordinate software delivery across centralized and remote sites using downstream distribution points. Leverage Configuration Manager to track deployments, view reports, and manage packages, applications, and programs.

Log into the domain controller to set up System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and an Active Directory replication site; create queries to identify rdbms services and manager accounts.

Create and refine queries in Configuration Manager to classify computers and users by Active Directory site name, then build device and user collections with WMI queries and incremental updates.

Configure security roles and scopes to deploy applications, distribute content to a Sydney device collection, and enforce a required Notepad installation through SCCM, then verify in software center.

Demonstrate configuring and deploying the XML Notepad application with Configuration Manager, including installing, uninstalling, and redeploying it to the Sydney servers, and verifying deployment via reports.

See how to set up System Center and deploy applications, learn Configuration Manager basics like collections, queries, roles, scope, packages, and distributions, and verify outcomes.

Discover self-service deployment for Windows desktop environments, enabling end users to request deployments via GPO, System Center Configuration Manager 2012, Windows Intune, and related tools with a practical demo.

Enable end users to request and receive applications through a self-service portal, automate approvals, and streamline installation, freeing IT from repetitive tasks while improving turnaround and user satisfaction.

Empower users with self-service by removing IT bottlenecks, automating app installs, and enabling on-demand access through user-centric deployment and pre-determined permissions.

Self-service won't solve all issues; bake a core default image for everyone, add department-specific apps, and use System Center to build collections and a portal for targeted, approved one-off installs.

Explore how Intune enables self-service through the company portal, publishing apps for Active Directory and non-AD devices to deploy, monitor installations, and manage licensing for remote users.

Publish software to a self-service portal and application catalog in system center 2012, controlled by collections and approvals; leverage Service Manager and Orchestrator for workflows and ticketing.

Explore how System Center Configuration Manager and Service Manager run on Windows Server with Orchestrator for automated deployments and self-service provisioning.

Configure the application catalog, deploy system centerpieces to self-service users via configuration manager, enabling application server, web core, .NET 3.5, WCF activation, and message queuing.

Learn to configure the application catalog in Configuration Manager, add site roles and web service points, customize settings, enable the machine policy retrieval evaluation cycle, and publish trusted sites.

Configure the application catalog approvals and security scopes in the Configuration Manager console, add administrative users and groups, assign security roles, and prepare to deploy applications from the software library.

Manage applications by configuring the catalog, setting security scopes, and deploying the Office Excel viewer and Notepad through System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, with administrator approval and client visibility.

Set up a self-service portal to submit an application request, route it for approval in configuration manager, and deploy the X Mail notepad to the software library collection.

Enable a self-service portal to request and auto-deploy apps, confirm deployability, and track installations across Windows Intune and System Center tools, including Configuration Manager, Service Manager, and Orchestrator.