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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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)

Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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)

Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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)