Here are the steps to complete during the Project Planning SMF to expedite the development process:

• Application Management: Application management is the process of repackaging applications or automating their installation and configuration. Organizations can have hundreds or thousands of applications. Often, users install each application differently on each computer, leading to inconsistency across computers and resulting in support and management issues.


• Image Engineering: With MDT 2010, you do not have to engineer the entire imaging process; the framework provides most of the code for you already. All you need to do is customize it to suit your organization's requirements.


• Deployment: MDT 2010 provides technical guidance and tools that help streamline the following processes:
• Choosing server placement


• Evaluating server and network capacity


• Installing the distribution shares and tools


• Deploying the client computers


• Infrastructure Remediation: Understanding the network environment is critical with any project that introduces changes. To plan and prepare to incorporate these changes, first understand the current status of the organization's environment, identify other sources of change that may affect this proj-ect, perform a risk-mitigation approach to the changes, and then incorporate the proposed changes.


• Operations Readiness: The project team is responsible for a smooth and successful handoff of the deployed solution to the operations staff. To ensure success, the activities of the team must be integrated with the ongoing management and operating func-tions of the operations staff.


• Security: To ensure that adequate security measures are in place, the project team should do the following:
• Analyze and determine the existing security level of the organization.


• Identify vulnerabilities caused by software upgrades and update network security specifications accordingly.


• Ensure that security measures are current.


• Migration: The project team can perform the following steps to plan for user state migration:
• Inventory existing production client computer applications.


• Identify applications with data or preference migration requirements.


• Prioritize the application list to be addressed.


• Identify SMEs for each application.


• Identify data file requirements for each application.