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Works With Minor Issues Or Has Solutions  Indicates that during your organization’s testing process, you experienced minor issues (severity 3), such as showing a typographical error, or an issue that already had a known solution.

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Does Not Work  Indicates that during your organization’s testing process, you experienced a severity 1 or severity 2 issue.

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No Data  Neither your organization, Microsoft Corporation, the vendor of the application or Web site, nor the ACT Community has provided any data.

To assess your compatibility data, perform the following steps: 1. In the left pane of the ACM, click Analyze. 2. In the Quick Reports pane, click Applications in the Windows 7 Reports section. 3. Right-click an application in the Windows 7 - Application Report and then click Set As-

sessment. 4. In the Set Assessment dialog box, shown here, click an assessment and then click OK.

Setting the Deployment Status You can set your organization’s deployment status for each application, application installation report, Web site, and Windows update. Setting your deployment status enables you to determine where each item is in your testing process. Additionally, setting your deployment status enables you to organize your data better, for both a more customized ACT compatibility report and for filtering purposes. Your deployment status choices include the following: n

Not Reviewed  Your organization has not yet reviewed this item to determine its impact, testing requirements, or deployment options.

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Testing  Your organization is in the process of locating compatibility issues.

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Mitigating  Your organization is in the process of creating and applying solutions for your compatibility issues.

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Ready To Deploy  Your organization has completed its testing and mitigation processes and has determined that you can deploy the item in your organization.

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Will Not Deploy  Your organization has decided that you will not deploy the item in your organization.

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