Plan an application deployment
Application deployment planning consists of three phases: managing application inventory and compatibility, packaging applications, and providing life-cycle support.
Application inventory and compatibility
Application compatibility can have a far-reaching impact on your organization. You can significantly reduce that impact by adequately planning your application compatibility project. Updates to Windows rarely affect application compatibility; however, they can happen. Most applications will function as expected when upgrading from a previous OS, such as Windows 10, to Windows 11. However, there are typically always some applications (such as Anti-virus) that will require attention.
Gathering an application inventory is the first step in understanding the effect of application compatibility changes in your environment. Microsoft offers tools to perform asset inventories, such as the Microsoft Intune Suite. For environments with thousands of managed applications, you can undertake an application compatibility project to reduce the number of applications in the environment, which will reduce the costs associated with application proliferation. An easy, immediate way to reduce the number of applications within an environment is to standardize the application versions across an organization.
Newer applications might supersede many older applications that provide similar functionality, thus enabling you to remove older applications. You eliminate corresponding licensing and support costs every time you remove an application. During an application compatibility project, you can analyze application compatibility across your entire enterprise.
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