Join Mark Russinovich and a panel of experts at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time, March 5th for a live, interactive discussion on adopting Windows Vista into a desktop infrastructure. The panel will feature subject-matter experts and IT pros from around the world who have tackled Windows Vista deployment—hear about the challenges, workarounds, and tips & tricks they have learned along the way. Ask your questions live during the event or e-mail your question in advance to vrtable@microsoft.com. The panel will answer as many questions as they can during the 60-minute event so take advantage of this opportunity to ask the experts and find out what you want to know about Windows Vista adoption.

For access to guidance, resources, tools, and straight-talk articles today, visit the Springboard Series for Windows Vista.

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Did you know ? Windows Vista Meeting Space requires IPv6.
So next time someone say that they dont use IPv6, they might need it anyway...

The new switch to connect to the server's active console session is:
mstsc.exe /admin
The old /console doesn't work anymore!

The Windows BitLocker Design and Deployment guides describe the various aspects of planning for deploying Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption for Windows Vista Enterprise and Windows Vista Ultimate computers in an enterprise environment. The document is organized in two guides, and you should carefully consider each guide before you deploy BitLocker Drive Encryption.

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption Design Guide
This guide provides a systematic approach when planning for BitLocker deployment and highlights the main decision points. This guide is intended for use by an infrastructure specialist or system architect. It assumes that you have a good understanding of how BitLocker and TPM work on a functional level.

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption Deployment Guide
This guide provides detailed instructions on how to prepare Windows Vista images for BitLocker and how to deploy BitLocker in an enterprise environment. This guide is intended for use by a deployment specialist or deployment team. It assumes that you have a good understanding of how automated Windows deployment, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) schema extension, and Group Policy works.

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Download the Windows Vista pre-configured virtual hard drive and get a head start on testing applications on Windows Vista.

Overview
For organizations with complex desktop infrastructures, whether large or small, Windows Vista Enterprise is the operating system designed specifically to help realize a better return on IT investments. In this VHD, you'll have the opportunity to road-test new and improved features including management (e.g. MUI, BDD, etc…) usability (e.g. Search, Navigation, etc…) and security (UAC, Windows Defender, etc…), enhancements to the Windows Vista platform.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP

On July 1st, MS will release an update to SoftGrid that will add support for Windows Vista.  SoftGrid, a part of the Desktop Optimisation Pack (Software Assurance customers only) is an application virtualisation and streaming solution that resolves issues surrounding software deployment:

• Application compatibility issues
• Regression testing
• Self service
• Rapid deployment

For further informantion on SoftGrid, check http://www.microsoft.com/softgrid/