Overview
Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring, and supporting Microsoft® Windows Vista-with expert insights from Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and the Windows Vista Team. This official Microsoft RESOURCE KIT provides more than 1,500 pages of in-depth technical guidance on automating deployment; implementing security enhancements; administering group policy, files and folders, and programs; and troubleshooting for Windows Vista. In addition, you get detailed information on Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7, Microsoft Windows® Firewall, and Windows Defender. You also get more than 150 timesaving scripts to help automate administrative tasks, additional job aids, and an eBook of the entire RESOURCE KIT on CD.Key Book Benefits:
* Definitive product information and expert insights straight from the Windows Vista team and Microsoft MVPs
* Provides the information that every Windows administrator needs about troubleshooting, security enhancements, group policy, and automating administration
* CD includes additional job aids and a fully searchable version of the entire RESOURCE KIT book
Synopsis
In-depth, comprehensive, and fully updated for Service Pack 1, this RESOURCE KIT delivers the information you need to administer Windows Vista. You get authoritative technical guidance from those who know the technology best—Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals and the Windows Vista team—along with essential scripts and resources on the CD.
Get expert guidance on how to:
- Use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit best practices and tools
- Plan user-state migration and test application compatibility
- Exploit new Group Policy features, settings, and ADMX templates
- Configure software updates and client-security technologies
- Administer disks, file systems, file sharing, search, and Internet Explorer
- Install and troubleshoot printers, devices, and services
- Manage IPsec, IPv6, wireless, and remote connectivity
- Use performance monitoring and diagnostic tools to manage desktop health
- Resolve common startup, hardware, and networking issues
CD features:
- 120+ sample VBScript scripts
- 25 sample Windows PowerShell scripts
- Troubleshooting tools
- Links to toolkits, documentation, and white papers
- Complete eBook of INTRODUCING WINDOW SERVER 2008
- Sample chapters from related Microsoft Press books
- Fully searchable eBook of this guide
Plus:
• See “Direct from the Source” sidebars for deep insights and troubleshooting tips from the Windows Vista team
A Note Regarding the CD or DVD
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Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewIf you must keep Windows running for your organization, you've always needed Microsoft's Windows Resource Kits. They contain too much indispensable information that's too much trouble to find elsewhere. Today, Vista offers a boatload of new tools for monitoring, management, and security, so skating along with your XP documentation isn't an option. But there's another great reason to buy the Vista Resource Kit: its huge library of scripts for automating Windows administration.
A quick look at the table of contents clues you in to this book's breadth; a quick glance at even a few chapters will convince you of its depth.
To begin with, security's covered comprehensively, from Windows Defender to BitLocker, encryption to smartcards. Next, you couldn't ask for more (or better) deployment coverage: everything from setting objectives to planning pilots to the nuts-and-bolts of disk imaging, application compatibility, and user state migration.
Speaking of which, the authors walk through automating every facet of migration that can be automated, from Vista installation (distributed shares, Sysprep, answer files) to application upgrades (via every installer, legacy and new, Microsoft and third-party).
Of course, deployment is only the beginning. The Resource Kit offers systematic guidance on managing Vista desktops via group policies and user profiles (including Vista's powerful "corporate roaming" enhancements). Disk partitioning, backup, quotas, performance optimization, devices, services, networking, remote assistance, printing, troubleshooting: They're all here.
There's a full chapter on Windows Meeting Space: a powerful new collaboration tool that raises significant configuration issues. The Kit helps you address those issues upfront, so users see only the benefits. Vista's revamped file search feature gets its own chapter. So does Internet Explorer 7, its revamped policies, and its new defenses against malware and data theft. You get the point: This book touches every corner of Vista, making your job more doable from start to finish. Bill Camarda, from the May 2007 Read Only