Vista Migration

When an administrator user logs on to a Windows Vista computer, two access tokens are created: a filtered standard user access token, and a full administrator access token. Instead of launching the desktop (Explorer.exe) with the administrator's access token, the standard user access token is used. All child processes inherit from this initial launch of the desktop (the explorer.exe process), which helps limit Windows Vista's attack surface. By default, all users, including administrators, log on to a Windows Vista computer as standard users.

If you are beginning to test Vista, and are looking into the various activation methods, you will quickly learn that KMS activation requires a minimum of 25 PCs. Therefore you may need to begin testing with a MAK key and later switch to activating against a KMS server.

If you have created a Vista image using a Scripted OS Install task, then you most likely left the command line to install the DAgent: C:\DAgent\DAgent.msi /quiet server_tcp_addr=%DSSERVER% server_tcp_port=402 scripted_install=1 LAUNCHUI=FALSE

When adding a Create Disk Image task for a Vista image and modifying the advanced sysprep properties, selecting "install additional drivers" and adding a path will allow drivers to be injected into the image.

To protect sensitive data on your PC, encryption methods always helpful.

BitLocker Drive Encryption is security feature in the Windows Vista operating system that provides protection for the operating system on your computer and data stored on the operating system volume.

Deploying Vista SP1 yes or no? That is the question. And it is a hard question.

You can download the service pack, and install it on your test machine. Does it run great? But do all your applications run on it? It is very hard to test all of it. And if you test all of it, did you really test ALL of it?

Nelson Ruest, Microsoft MVP, Enterprise Solutions gave this session and provided guidance for the successful implementation of application virtualization with SVS and application streaming with SVS Pro. Planning considerations were discussed, including why to do it in the first place, when to do it, and how application virtualization and streaming fit into a larger software management strategy.