Event Review: Deploying Vista In Your Organization With Confidence (Session ITPROCLI-302)

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Session Outline

In this session we will look at how to automate deployment of Windows Vista for small, medium, and large scale deployment scenarios. The session explores applications that help IT Professionals assess existing resources before deploying Vista SP1 operating system such as Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator and System Center Essentials. We will cover application deployment and planning scenarios to ensure that the right applications are deployed and to accelerate deployment for Vista desktop computers. We will over Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.0 to ensure productivity applications can be deployed on Windows Vista seamlessly and User State Migration tool to migrate existing operating system settings. The session will explore small organization deployment scenarios that will walk you through deploying Windows Vista SP1 using Windows Deployments Services, Windows Update, and Windows Automated Installation Kit. For midsize businesses we will deploy Windows Vista SP1 using System Center Essentials to existing Windows Vista computers and Windows Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 to provision new computers for Windows Vista SP1. System Center Configuration Manager will be used for large scale deployments and Windows Server Update Services for updating Windows Vista clients to Windows Vista SP1.

Session Agenda

• Deployment Planning for Windows Vista
• Methods for Installing Windows Vista
• Deploying Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Session Media

This session consists of a Windows Media presentation and demonstrations:

Related Links

Use the following resources to learn more about topics covered in this briefing.

• Springboard Series for Windows Vista Deployment
• Windows Vista: Deployment
• Windows Vista Deployment Step-by-Step Guide
• The Deployment Guys
• Richard Smith : Windows Vista Deployment Planning - Part 1
• Richard Smith : Windows Vista Deployment Planning - Part 3
• Richard Smith : Windows Vista Client Build and Deployment Process
• Windows Vista SP1: Microsoft Deployment Tools Matrix
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Documentation
• Microsoft Learning Manager - English Catalog,Vista Learning Plans

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!

• MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-620): Configuring Microsoft Windows Vista Client

  Summary: Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-620—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

• MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-622): Supporting and Troubleshooting Applications on a Windows Vista Client for Enterprise

  Summary: Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCITP Exam 70-622—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

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 Vista Unleashed

  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.

Training and Certification

• Learning Plan for MCTS: Windows Vista, Configuration Exam 70-620

  Summary: This learning plan is intended to help IT professionals gain the knowledge and skills required to configure Windows Vista for optimal performance on the desktop, and ultimately to prepare for Exam 70-620. By passing exam 70-620, candidates earn the MCTS Windows Vista Configuring certification.

• Learning Plan for MCITP Enterprise Support Technician Exam 70-622

  Summary: A Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Enterprise Support Technician possesses the high level of knowledge and skills needed to support end users in medium-sized or enterprise environments with the most critical and difficult support issues. This includes the knowledge and skills to diagnose and resolve all types of desktop support issues, as well as issues involving mobile and personal devices.

• Collection 5347: Installing and Configuring Windows Vista

  Summary: In this online collection composed of six courses, you gain the knowledge and skills to install and configure Windows Vista. You also get in-depth information about the Windows Vista startup process and file systems. This online collection is composed of a rich multimedia experience coupled with comprehensive technical labs.

• Course 5348: Installing Windows Vista on a New Computer

  Summary: In this online course, you install and troubleshoot a clean installation of Windows Vista. In addition, you install and configure Windows Vista drivers. This online course is one of several courses that focus on Windows Vista technologies. It is composed of a rich multimedia experience coupled with comprehensive technical labs. It is intended for IT Professionals who must implement or support Windows Vista. This course helps prepare you for certification exams 70-620, 70-621, and 70-623. This course also helps you prepare to become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP).

• Collection 5257: Core Training for Windows Vista

  Summary: This collection of online courses covers the core skills and knowledge you will need to get the most out of the Windows Vista operating system.