Related Links for Controlling Communication with the Internet for Windows Vista

The following pages provide information about Windows Vista and related Microsoft products.

• Information about Windows Vista
  
  
  • Resources for IT professionals
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70688
    
    
  • Privacy statement
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70682
    
    
  • Step-by-step guides for IT professionals
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71527
    
    
• Online Help for Windows Vista
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71538
  
  
• Windows deployment and resource kits
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=26481
  
  
• Microsoft product support and Knowledge Base
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=7588
  
  
• Microsoft TechNet
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=94651
  
  
• Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN®)
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=140
  
  
• Windows Server System Reference Architecture
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29413
  
  
• Internet Explorer Administration Kit 7
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71520
  
  

The following sites provide information about security, management, and deployment topics.

• Microsoft systems management solutions
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70683
  
  
• Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70686
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72156
    
    
• Information about deployment and automated installation
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70684
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70685
    
    
• Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29168
  
  
• Security Guidance Center
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=102
  
  
• Web pages focused on security for Windows Vista
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70679
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70680
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74326
    
    
• Web page focused on security on the MSDN® Web site
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=134064
  
  
• Web pages focused on security on the Microsoft TechNet Web site
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=134065
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74585
    
    

The following sites provide information about some of the features in Windows Vista.

Note that privacy statements for many features in Windows Vista are included in the privacy statement for Windows Vista at:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70682

• Add Network Location Wizard (specifically, related protocols called the Web Extender Client protocol and the Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol)
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29223
  
  
• Certificates and public key infrastructure (PKI)
  
  
  • Certificates
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=27081
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74583
    
    
  • PKI
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=29886
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74584
    
    
  Also see Sites Maintained by Task Forces and Other Organizations later in this section.
  
  
• Content Advisor
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=55249
  
  Also see Sites Maintained by Task Forces and Other Organizations later in this section.
  
  
• Default Programs interface
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=29306
  
  
• Device installation (a step-by-step guide to controlling device installation and usage with Group Policy and a step-by-step guide to device driver signing and staging)
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71527
  
  Also see the following page on the MSDN Web site:
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71536
  
  
• Event Viewer, specifically, event forwarding and collecting
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72153
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72154
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72155
    
    
• File association Web service (specifically, using Group Policy to remotely install software)
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=29166
  
  Also see “Language codes” in this subsection.
  
  
• Internet Explorer
  
  
  • General information about Internet Explorer
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=83152
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71519
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70681
    
    
  • Controlling Internet-based code that can be run in Internet Explorer
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71300
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=75005
    
    
  Also see the following Web pages related to Internet Explorer:
  
  
  • “Windows deployment and resource kits” and "Internet Explorer Administration Kit" in Product Information, Support Information, TechNet, Microsoft Developer Network, and Information in Product Resource Kits, earlier in this section.
    
    
  • “Language codes” in this subsection.
    
    
  • “Default Programs interface” in this subsection.
    
    
• Internet Information Services in Windows Vista
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73078
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73081
    
    
• Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
  
  
  • General information about IPv6
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71548
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71540
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71542
    
    
  • IPv6 and networking in Windows Vista
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71544
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71546
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71547
    
    
  • Using tools to obtain IPv6 configuration information
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71541
    
    
  • IPv6 and security
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71543
    
    
  • IPv6, Teredo, and Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71545
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71549
    
    
  Also see Sites Maintained by Task Forces and Other Organizations later in this section.
  
  
• Language codes (used in Internet Explorer and the file association Web service when a language is being specified)
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=29165
  
  
• Order Prints Wizard (related registry settings)
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29134
  
  
• Phishing Filter
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70681
  
  Also see "Internet Explorer" in this subsection.
  
  
• Program compatibility features
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29880
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72150
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73079
    
    
  Also see "Windows Error Reporting" (which handles the reports generated by program compatibility features) in this subsection.
  
  
• Remote Assistance
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72160
  
  
• Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73075
  
  
• Windows Defender
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70679
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70680
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71539
    
    
• Windows Error Reporting
  
  
  • Privacy statement for Microsoft Error Reporting
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70677
    
    
  • Information about how Windows Error Reporting works
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29903
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73072
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71551
    
    
• Windows Firewall
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72149
  
  
• Windows Mail
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72161
  
  Also see "Default Programs interface" in this subsection.
  
  
• Windows Media Player
  
  
  • General information about Windows Media Player
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=134094
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=44073
    
    
  • Windows Media Services (streaming media servers)
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29867
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74004
    
    
  • Windows Media in the enterprise
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74323
    
    
  • Privacy statement for WindowsMedia.com
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=66845
    
    
  • Web pages focused on skins and plug-ins
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73077
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74007
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=134095
    
    
  • Protected media path
    
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74003
    
    
• Windows Meeting Space
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71528
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71537
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72400
    
    
• Windows Movie Maker
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=50289
  
  
• Windows Update and automatic updating
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72162
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=75160
    
    

The following sites provide information about product activation, Windows Genuine Advantage, and licensing.

• Individual product activation
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72157
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=75164
  
  
• Windows Genuine Advantage program
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73073
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74328
  
  
• Volume activation and licensing
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74008
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73076
  
  

The following sites provide information about product registration.

• http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=60879
  
  
• http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72399
  
  

The following pages are maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

• http://www.ietf.org/
  
  
• http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=29138
  
  
• http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29924
  
  
• http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71550
  
  

The following site is maintained by the Internet Content Rating Association.

• http://www.icra.org/
  
  

The following site is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium.

• http://www.w3.org/
  
  

(Web addresses can change, so you might be unable to connect to the Web sites mentioned here.)

The following sites provide information about topics related to Group Policy.

• Technical information about Group Policy
  
  
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=116313
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=17530
    
    
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29907
    
    
• Designing a Managed Environment in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73074
  
  
• Group Policy Settings Reference on the Microsoft Web site
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54020
  
  
• Windows Vista Security Guide on the Microsoft Web site
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74326
  
  
• Topics on TechNet that describe changes to Group Policy in Windows Vista
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=55413