We are two months into 2011 and already I personally am seeing and increased demand for services in relation to deployment of Windows 7.

It is fair to say that Windows 7 has streamlined image deployment. Improvements include native compatibility mitigation for a greater range of applications, new and improved image-engineering tools improving the deployment experience and improvements that streamline migration of users’ files and settings.

I would like to hear from anyone who has performed a large scale Windows 7 rollout to share our experiences and confirm what Microsoft are saying about the Windows 7 Operating System.

• Does Windows 7 provide more options for engineering and deploying images and has the single, consolidated toolset helped to service images throughout the operating-system lifecycle?
• Has Windows 7 improved driver handling through Dynamic Driver Provisioning, helping to reduce image sizes by dynamically matching drivers to Plug-and-Play IDs or BIOS properties during deployments?
• Is there an improved delivery with Windows Deployment Services, has bandwidth consumption reduced? Is there real improved speed and flexibility using Multicast with Multiple Stream Transfer?
• Has Windows 7 improved the installation experience with faster and more consistent setup via installation task-sequencing tools supposedly allowing faster transfer of user files and settings?

In fairness, in my experience, the answers to all of the above questions are “yes” to one extent or another. My question to the wider tech community would be what else we would have liked to see in Windows 7 to aid and simplify the deployment process?