Microsoft makes it SO easy to learn to work with Windows Vista – all without ever installing any software!
TRY WINDOWS VISTAWindows Vista Business test-drive allows you to try Microsoft’s Windows Vista without having to install it on your PC. Explore Windows Vista on your own, or follow along with guided excercises and videos.
LEARN WINDOWS VISTA CONCEPTS
- Create a simple answer file for Windows Vista
- Create an advanced answer file for Windows Vista
- Create and configure a distribution point for images
Customizing Windows PreInstallation Environment (WinPE) is the core deployment foundation for Windows Vista and is available to all Windows Vista customers.
- Customize components included in WinPE
- Automating tasks in WinPE
- Creating a bootable WinPE iso image
- Updating a Windows Deployment Server (WDS) to include a WinPE boot image.
- Install the SMS 2003 OS Deployment Feature Pack Update.
- Install USMT 3.0 to capture and restore user state information.
- Create an Image Capture Wizard CD.
- Image a Windows Vista client computer.
- Import the Windows Vista image into an SMS 2003 image package.
- Deploy the Windows Vista image to upgrade a Windows 2000 client computer.
- Control removable device security
- Automate the deployment of printers
- Deploy power consumption policies
- Deploy Internet Explorer settings
- Deploy Shell policy settings to control the look and feel of the user’s desktop
- Implement User Account Control settings
- Control removable device security
- Automate the deployment of printers
- Deploy power consumption policies
- Deploy Internet Explorer settings
- Deploy Shell policy settings to control the look and feel of the user’s desktop
- Implement User Account Control settings
- Using multiple local Group Policy objects
- Introducing XML-based settings templates (ADMX)
- Creating the Settings Templates “Central Store”
- Using ADM and ADMX templates for Policy Management
- Policy Assessment and Reporting with Vista RSoP
- Use Windows Firewall with Advanced Security to configure domain isolation with IPsec.
- Configure connection security rules and firewall rules.
- Make advanced configuration changes to IPsec settings to increase network security
- Perform common Windows Firewall with Advanced Security configuration changes.
- Create a migration script using XML for use with USMT 3.0
- Edit a USMT migration script to specify settings to be captured during migration
- Perform a save state before performing a migration
- Perform a load state after performing a migration
- Use Windows System Image Manager to create a distribution share.
- Modify a Windows Vista staged image.
- Create a computer master image using ImageX.
- Modify a WIM file in an offline scenario
- Use Windows System Image Manager to create a distribution share
- Use Windows System Image Manager to create a simple Unattend.XML file
- Use Windows System Image Manager to create an advanced Unattend.XML file
- Perform an unattended installation of Windows Vista
- Use ImageX to Customize WinPE
- Use ImageX to Create a Bootable CD Image
- Use Windows System Image Manager to create a distribution share
- Use Windows System Image Manager to create a simple Unattend.XML file
- Use ImageX to modify a WIM file and to split a WIM into multiple smaller files
- Version Checking
- User Account Control
- Mandatory Integrity Control
- Installer running under Lesser Privileged Account
- Session 0 Isolation
- Windows Resource Protection
- Global Object Creation
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