October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
1760 pages
93h 25m
English
You can use five primary tools to mitigate application-compatibility issues: Program Compatibility Assistant, Program Compatibility Wizard, ACT, Windows XP Mode, and application virtualization. The following sections describe each tool and when it is appropriate to use each tool versus using other tools or technologies.
The first two tools provide approaches for users and one-off support issues but are not for use in a large-scale deployment. The remainder of this chapter focuses on using the ACT to inventory, analyze, and mitigate compatibility issues, because this is the tool that organizations primarily use in large-scale deployment.
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 4.0 is a free tool from Microsoft ...