ASPE-IT instructor Tom Carpenter starts a series of posts on Windows 7 deployment:

Many small and medium businesses lack a good hardware inventory management tool. Even larger companies often fail to inventory their hardware in detail. By hardware inventory, I mean a detailed database of computers and the components in those computers. For example, do you know which machines in your environment are ready to support Windows 7? Do you know which machines can be upgraded through memory or hard drive upgrades in order to run Windows 7 efficiently? Do you know which machines must be replaced because they cannot run Windows 7? Click to continue »