Windows Vista Deployment


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number


Overview/Description
Microsoft Windows Vista is the leading operating system used on desktops throughout the world in enterprise and home environments. It provides enhanced security, performance, reliability, and reduced cost for deployment and management. This course discusses the deployment infrastructure for enterprise environments and the different deployment methods that can be used to deploy Windows Vista, either by upgrading or performing cleaning installations. It also demonstrates how to prepare the target computers for installation, perform deployments of Windows Vista using an image, and carry out post-installation tasks.

Target Audience
Support personnel supporting Windows Vista; technical professionals.

Prerequisites
3 to 5 years experience as tier 2 or team-lead/technical desktop support technician; passed an entry level desktop support exam, such as 70-620 TS: Microsoft Windows Vista, Configuring; hands on experience with Windows Vista deployment, managing security, troubleshooting network-related issues

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Windows Vista Deployment

  • identify the functions of Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment
  • recognize when to use Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) and Lite Touch Installation (LTI) in deploying Windows Vista
  • recognize when to upgrade or do a clean install of Windows Vista
  • identify the factors involved in choosing a Windows Vista installation method
  • identify considerations for dualbooting Vista with Windows XP and Windows 2000
  • analyze the business environment and select an appropriate deployment method
  • identify how to prepare a system for a Windows Vista deployment
  • recognize the minimum hardware requirements for a Windows Vista Capable and Premium Ready PC
  • recognize how to use the Windows Easy Transfer wizard to migrate user state data
  • recognize how to use ScanState to migrate user data
  • prepare to deploy Windows Vista
  • recognize how to deploy an image using Windows PE and ImageX
  • recognize the tools and techniques used in a basic image-based deployment of Windows Vista
  • identify checks and post-installation tasks for deploying Windows Vista
  • recognize how to use LoadState to migrate user state data
  • deploy a Windows Vista image

    • Course Number:
    mv_mvet_a01_it_enus