Windows Vista 30-Day Eval VHD

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For organizations with complex desktop infrastructures, whether large or small, Windows Vista Enterprise is the operating system designed specifically to help realize a better return on IT investments. In this VHD, you'll have the opportunity to road-test new and improved features including management (e.g. MUI, BDD, etc) usability (e.g. Search, Navigation, etc) and security (UAC, Windows Defender, etc), enhancements to the Windows Vista platform.

Windows Vista 30-Day Eval VHD

Windows Vista Security Enhancements

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This article includes information about security enhancements in Windows Vista and how Microsoft used the Security Development Lifecycle to increase the security of the Windows operating system.

It is important, albeit challenging, to achieve the right balance for managing security settings, given the varying needs of home, professional, and business users. The rich, new set of security features in Windows Vista were developed using concentrated thought and effort to determine the best balance between ease of use and security.

This article highlights security enhancements in Windows Vista, the most secure version of Windows yet. This article includes information about security enhancements in Windows Vista and how Microsoft used the Security Development Lifecycle to increase the security of the Windows operating system.

Windows Vista Security Enhancements

Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

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The Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack is built on the Windows Diagnostics Infrastructure in Windows Vista that detects, diagnoses and tries to resolve hardware and software problems. Information and analysis on the issues that the system detected are collected by the MP through an agent on the client and sent to OpsMgr where this data is converted into health state, alerts (if need be) and processed for aggregate reports. The MP monitors the following areas:

- Disk reliability and utilization
- Memory reliability and utilization
- System performance
- Runtime performance
- Bootup performance
- Shutdown performance
- Sleep performance
- Resume performance

And surfaces information in these areas by:
1. Raising individual alerts when there are impending catastrophic failures
2. Raising trend-based alerts on significant changes to any OEM or computer group in one of the monitored areas
3. Health monitors giving an in-depth view of the health of individual machines with knowledge articles to guide the admin.
4. Reports giving a landscape view of the health of all monitored clients in all the monitoring areas

Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

802.1X NAP Enforcement Step by Step Guide

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Network Access Protection (NAP) is a new policy enforcement technology in the Windows Vista and Windows Server Code Name Longhorn operating systems. NAP provides components and an application programming interface (API) set that help administrators enforce compliance with health requirements for network access and communication. This paper contains an introduction to NAP and instructions on how to set up a test lab to deploy NAP with the 802.1X enforcement method. The lab requires two server and two client computers, and an 802.1X compliant switch that supports the use of RADIUS tunnel attributes to specify the 802.1X client VLAN. With this test network, you can create and enforce client health requirements using NAP and the 802.1X features on your switch.

802.1X NAP Enforcement Step by Step Guide

Cumulative Update for Windows Media Center for Windows Vista (KB932818)

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This update addresses issues with Windows Media Center. For a complete listing of issues included in this cumulative update, see KB932818. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms.

Cumulative Update for Windows Media Center for Windows Vista (KB932818)

Update for Windows Vista (KB933590)

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Install this update to resolve an issue where your display flashes and becomes corrupt when Flight Simulator X is run in multi-monitor mode and the monitor configurations are not identical. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms.

Update for Windows Vista (KB933590)

Cumulative Update for Windows Media Center for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB932818)

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This update addresses issues with Windows Media Center. For a complete listing of issues included in this cumulative update, see KB932818. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms.

Cumulative Update for Windows Media Center for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB932818)

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB933590)

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Install this update to resolve an issue where your display flashes and becomes corrupt when Flight Simulator X is run in multi-monitor mode and the monitor configurations are not identical. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms.

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB933590)

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment

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The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment is a tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Through use of the detailed inventory data, the tool will assess and report whether the computers can run Windows Vista, where to find drivers for devices on the computers, and provide recommendations for hardware upgrades, where appropriate.

The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool does not require the deployment of agent software on the computers being inventoried and assessed. It provides a secure, quick, and easy way to determine which computers, in a networked environment, are Windows Vista ready.

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment

Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT) version 3.0.1

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Microsoft Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT) version 3.0.1 migrates user files and settings during deployments of Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista. You can use USMT to perform unattended migrations and to migrate files and settings for computers with multiple users. Also, with USMT you have the ability to encrypt and compress the store. USMT 3.0.1 is intended for administrators who are performing automated deployments.

This tool includes two command-line tools named ScanState and LoadState. ScanState creates an intermediate store that contains the user files and settings from the source computer. LoadState restores these files and settings to the destination computer. USMT 3.0.1 also has three default migration rule (.xml) files named MigApp.xml, MigUser.xml, and MigSys.xml. You can alter the default .xml files and you can also create customized .xml files. Depending on what you want to migrate, you can specify all or none of the default .xml files on the command line. The entire migration process is controlled by the .xml rules, which you can modify, and logic that is built into the tool. When using USMT for automated migration, in almost all cases, you should modify the migration .xml files for your unique situation.

USMT 3.0.1 contains the following updates to USMT 3.0:

You can now install this tool on computers that are running non-English versions of Windows Vista.
In USMT 3.0, some settings for local accounts were not being migrated. This has been fixed in USMT 3.0.1.

Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT) version 3.0.1

Windows Vista Centralized Desktop and Virtual Server

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This white paper introduces Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop, a way of licensing Windows Vista for deployment in a centralized, virtualized setting. It then examines how Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop may be deployed using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 along with other Microsoft software and technologies. It examines two common deployment scenarios, followed by considerations and recommendations for deploying Virtual Server in support of such solutions. It concludes by examining the key benefits of implementing Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop on Virtual Server and presenting additional sources of information on the topics discussed in the document.

Windows Vista Centralized Desktop and Virtual Server

WDS 3.01 Admin Guide

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Windows Desktop Search (WDS) is the search technology that lets users quickly find almost anything on their computers, including e-mail messages, calendar appointments, photos, documents, and more. In WDS 3.x, the search engine is now a system service but it retains the desktop performance features of previous versions of WDS. WDS 3.x has been optimized in its integration into Vista to give a superior experience compared to WDS on older machines. WDS uses simple search syntax to search for information that the user has selected to index. This means that when a user types "email from:john date:yesterday", WDS will list all e-mail messages that the user received yesterday from anyone named John. Users familiar with search syntax can use advanced keywords (Advanced Query Syntax) to specify everything from file types to date ranges as well as specifying which folders to search in. WDS returns results in a rich Windows Explorer environment, so users can quickly preview, filter, and act on search results
WDS 3.01 Admin Guide

Windows Vista Updates

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Microsoft has released the following Windows Vista updates:

Update for Windows Vista (KB932988)

Install this update to resolve an issue where when adding metadata to RAW images from Canon EOS-1D or EOS-1Ds cameras, the file is truncated and the image is permanently lost. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
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Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility

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This Windows operating system supplemental utility restores backups made on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to computers running Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server code-named “Longhorn” (currently in beta testing).

This utility requires that the Removable Storage Management feature is enabled

Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment

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The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment is a tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Through use of the detailed inventory data, the tool will assess and report whether the computers can run Windows Vista, where to find drivers for devices on the computers, and provide recommendations for hardware upgrades, where appropriate.

The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool does not require the deployment of agent software on the computers being inventoried and assessed. It provides a secure, quick, and easy way to determine which computers, in a networked environment, are Windows Vista ready.

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment

Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment is a tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Through use of the detailed inventory data, the tool will assess and report whether the computers can run Windows Vista, where to find drivers for devices on the computers, and provide recommendations for hardware upgrades, where appropriate.

The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool does not require the deployment of agent software on the computers being inventoried and assessed. It provides a secure, quick, and easy way to determine which computers, in a networked environment, are Windows Vista ready.

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment

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