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Session Outline
In this session, we will look at how Windows Vista gives administrators more control over their environments and provides tools to simplify common administrative tasks. The Event Logging Infrastructure and other instrumentation in Windows Vista are enhanced to provide greater visibility and control over the desktop environment. Windows Vista also includes newly redesigned tools, such as the Task Scheduler, Event Viewer, and Performance Monitor. Even the Microsoft Management Console has been enhanced to make management applications more flexible and easier to use. These improvements make it easier for IT professionals to achieve and maintain a standardized client platform. In today's session, we will take a closer look at the newly designed Task Scheduler and Event Viewer. Improvements to the Windows event logging service make the Windows Vista desktop easier to manage, monitor, and provide better information for troubleshooting. Strict standards ensure that events are meaningful, actionable, and well-documented. Many components that stored logging information in text files in previous versions of Windows now add events to the event log. With event forwarding, administrators can centrally manage events from computers anywhere on the network, making it easier to proactively identify problems and to correlate problems that affect multiple computers. Finally, the event viewer has been completely rewritten to allow users to filter and sort events, control which type of events are logged, discover events more easily, and perform basic diagnostic tasks. This input makes it much more practical for administrators to use the event log to troubleshoot users' problems. Windows Vista greatly increases the administrator's ability to automate tasks, reducing the time needed to manage the desktop and decreasing the likelihood of manual errors. The task Scheduler is much more powerful in Windows Vista than in earlier versions of Windows. Task Scheduler can still be used to launch tasks at specific times or when the computer starts up, and it is entirely backward-compatible with Windows XP. There are several other design improvements to the task scheduler which we will explore in this session.
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Session Agenda
- More control over environment
- Simplifying desktop management
- Increasing Automation
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Session Media
This session consists of the following demonstrations:
- Demo: Examining the Event Viewer
During this demonstration, we will explore the new features of the Event Viewer in Windows Vista.
- Demo: Creating and Using Views
In this demonstration, we will create and use a custom view based off the Task Scheduler log entries.
- Demo: Creating a Cross Log Query
In this demonstration, we will create a sample Cross Log Query.
- Demo: Event Forwarding and Subscriptions
In this demonstration, we will show how to use subscriptions for event forwarding.
- Demo: Scheduling a Task
In this demonstration, we will see how the Event Viewer and Task Scheduler integrate and we will also explore how to create a new task using the Task Scheduler.
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