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Building high quality Windows PCs using the assessment and deployment kit

HW-147T. Building high quality Windows PCs using the assessment and deployment kit. Michael Beck Principal Group Program Manager Microsoft Corporation. Agenda. A look at a consumers view of the PC experience New ways to measure the PC experience Tour of the assessment tools in the ADK

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Building high quality Windows PCs using the assessment and deployment kit

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  1. HW-147T Building high quality Windows PCs using the assessment and deployment kit Michael Beck Principal Group Program Manager Microsoft Corporation

  2. Agenda • A look at a consumers view of the PC experience • New ways to measure the PC experience • Tour of the assessment tools in the ADK • Customizing assessments to meet your needs You’ll leave with examples of how to • Measure the PC Experience with the new tools provided in the ADK • Troubleshoot, tweak, and resolve issues that impact the PC experience

  3. Customers judge the whole PC experience • Quality expectations are changing • Software + Hardware + Windows = PC experience • The way we measure PC quality must also change

  4. System assessment in the ADK • Provides a new way to measure system quality • The ADK tools measure a PC’s quality attributes

  5. Benchmarking doesn’t go far enough • Advantages • Accepted, and easy to discuss by techies • Used as part of certification or comparison • Widely adopted, especially in the press • Disadvantages • Provided with little context on how they’re created • A “black box” to users • Less useful in system engineering

  6. System assessment basics • “System assessment” is a process that uses the ADK tools to measure and analyze a PC • Assessments are core functionality tests • Combinations of these tests provide additional measures of the entire PC experience

  7. demo Windows Assessment Console Getting started with assessment tools

  8. Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) • XPerf in Windows 7 • Takes you down as deep as you want into analyzing a system at runtime • Used by Windows engineers to find and fix code issues

  9. demo Windows Performance Analyzer A tool to help resolve tough issues

  10. demo System assessment beyond a single machine

  11. Windows Assessment Service (WAS) • Infrastructure to support lab environments • Automation to support large scale deployment and assessment of many machines • Results database allows for system comparison, analysis and reporting

  12. Customizing Assessments and Workloads

  13. demo Assessments, Jobs, and Workloads

  14. For more information Related sessions Documentation & articles • HW-148P Scaling and extending Windows assessments to improve system quality: Parts 1 and 2 • HW-59T Improving performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit • HW-61H Experiencing the assessment tools in Windows 8 • HW-915P Introduction to assessments • ADKContact@microsoft.com • ADK_TechnicalReference.chm in the ADK • Windows Performance Toolkit • Windows Hardware Dev Center • Windows Dev Center Contact

  15. thank you Feedback and questions http://forums.dev.windows.com Session feedbackhttp://bldw.in/SessionFeedback

  16. © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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