Device Management and Installation Operations Guide

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

This Operations Guide provides administering information for devices and their drivers in Microsoft® Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008.

Device Management and Installation is a group of technologies that supports the installation of hardware devices and the device driver software that allows them to communicate with Windows. Features in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 give administrators the ability to control the devices that can be installed on the computers they manage.

In this guide

Acknowledgments

Produced by: Microsoft Windows Server User Assistance

Writer: Dave Bishop

Editor: Scott Somohano

Technical reviewers: Darrell Gorter, Ping Xu, and George Roussos