Event Review: How Microsoft Technologies and Windows Vista Improve Supporting and Maintaining the Desktop (Session ITPROCLI-304)

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Session Outline

Windows Vista includes many advances that help IT organizations lock down the desktop environment and prevent user-generated configuration conflicts. We will explore how to take advantage of the advanced capabilities in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008, and System Center application suit to reduce disruption, minimize help desk calls, and ensure maximum uptime for desktop users. In addition, learn how remote-assistance capability in Windows Vista can enable troubleshooting remotely, making problem resolution much more efficient.

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Demo: Preventing Configuration Changes and Solving Problems Remotely

In this demonstration, we will show how to prevent configuration changes by using Windows Defender. We will also resolve a problem by using Remote Assistance.  
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Demo: Deploying Applications with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

In this demonstration, we will examine how to configure and use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 to deploy Microsoft Office Visio 2007.  
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Demo: Monitoring Windows Vista-Based Clients

In this demonstration, System Center Operations Manager will monitor a Vista client using agentless exception monitoring.  
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Demo: Managing Group Policy

In this demonstration, we will use Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) to configure Group Policy for the Windows Vista-based desktop.  
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Microsoft Press Books

  • Introducing Microsoft Windows Vista

    Summary: Your insider's preview of the next release of Microsoft Windows. What's new and improved in the newest release of the Microsoft Windows family of client operating systems? Which versions of Windows Vista are right for you and your organization? How will the new features and capabilities in Windows Vista improve security, make users more productive, and make it easier for IT professionals to deploy, manage, and support Windows desktops and mobile clients? Discover the new features and tools for deploying Windows Vista, help secure PCs and user accounts, migrate user settings and data, manage application compatibility, improve reliability, reduce support costs, develop applications, and help users achieve new levels of productivity and success at home or on the job.

  • Windows Vista Resource Kit

    Summary: In-depth and comprehensive, this resource delivers the information you need for administering Windows Vista. You get expert technical guidance from those who know the technology best?Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals and the Microsoft Windows Vista team. Plus?more than 200 scripts, tools and essential administration resources on DVD.

  • Windows Vista Inside Out

    Summary: You?re beyond the basics, so dive right in and really put your PC to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It?s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Windows Vista?and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery!

  • Windows Vista Step by Step

    Summary: Experience learning made easy?and quickly teach yourself how to make the most of your Windows Vista experience. With Step By Step, you set the pace?building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

  • Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator's Companion

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Third-Party Books

  • Microsoft Windows Vista Unveiled

    Summary: Microsoft Windows Vista Unveiled is an in-depth exploration of the public release Beta 2 version of Windows Vista, Microsoft?s next major operating system and the successor to Windows XP. Whether you're just planning ahead for a future upgrade or running Beta 2 already, Microsoft Windows Vista Unveiled takes you on a detailed tour of all the new and improved technologies, features, tools, and programs that Microsoft programmers have stitched into the Vista fabric. You will learn not only what features are new in Vista, but also why they?re important (or not), who they were designed for, and how they will affect your computing life. The goal of this book is to give you an exhaustive sneak preview of Vista?s innovations and changes so that by the end of the book you should know whether Vista is for you and what you can expect when you sit down in front of this new operating system.

  • Microsoft Windows VistaUnleashed

    Summary: This book goes beyond the standard-issue techniques sanctioned by Microsoft and parroted in other Windows Vista books. Instead, this book offers shortcuts for boosting your productivity, customizations for making Windows Vista work the way you do, workarounds for known Windows Vista problems, and warnings for avoiding Windows Vista pitfalls. Along the way, you'l learn about all kinds of insider details, undocumented features, powerful tools, and background facts that help put everything into perspective.

  • How Microsoft Windows Vista Works

    Summary: How Microsoft Windows Vista Works is the first book to take you inside the new Windows Vista operating system and show you how all the pieces and parts work. With clear and simple explanations and illustrations that say, "You, too, can understand this," How Microsoft Windows Vista Works gives you detailed information on the hidden workings of Windows Vista-from the new Aero interface inside to the Windows kernel.

  • Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows Vista All in One

    Summary: Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation forged in both technology and everyday user scenarios, allowing you to learn the essentials of Windows Vista from the ground up. If you're a pro or a newcomer to Windows, you have in your hands the book you need to make the most of Vista with the least effort possible.

  • Windows Vista The Complete Reference

    Summary: Here is the ultimate one-stop desk reference for Windows Vista users. Windows Vista: The Complete Reference provides comprehensive coverage of the newest features of the operating system. From setting up for optimum performance and understanding the OS internals to finding files and keeping computer systems secure and free from spyware, this volume covers it all. It's the ideal resource for anyone who wants to truly master Windows Vista.

  • How to Do Everything with Windows Vista

    Summary: When trying to learn a new operating system, you don't have time to fumble through text-heavy chapters to find the answers you need. How to Do Everything with Windows Vista provides answers quickly and efficiently. You will learn to customize settings, use all the software properly, connect to the Internet, secure your system, set up a home network, connect peripheral devices, play games, and much more.

  • Windows Vista: The Definitive Guide

    Summary: Whether you're a beginner, power user, or seasoned professional, this complete guide has everything you need to customize the operating system, master your digital media, manage your data, and maintain your computer -- regardless of which Windows Vista edition you're using.

  • Windows Vista in a Nutshell

    Summary: This unique reference thoroughly documents every important setting and feature in Windows Vista, with alphabetical listings for hundreds of commands, windows, menus, listboxes, buttons, scrollbars, and other elements. To help you locate a specific setting, tool, or feature quickly, the book is organized into separate references for the user interface, file system, networking, hardware, security, mobility, multimedia, and command prompt. Also includes a system overview and a tour of the basics.

  • Windows Vista Pocket Reference

    Summary: Windows Vista Pocket Reference is the ideal guide to setting up and navigating the basics of this new operating system, from the new user interface to networking, multimedia, security, and mobility.

  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed

    Summary: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007. Like its MOM 2005 predecessor, OpsMgr 2007 helps you implement operations management, but with a far different and more holistic approach from MOM 2005’s focus on individual servers.

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