Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Vista Security


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
Microsoft Windows Vista provides enhanced security features to help protect computers from malicious attacks, spyware, and other unwanted software that can be installed on your system when it is connected to the Internet. Vista also ensures that computers are kept up to date by automatically installing the latest security patches and updates. This course discusses how to secure Internet Explorer, and configure Windows Firewall and Windows Defender to secure computers. It also explains how to keep computer security up to date using Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services.

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)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Vista Security

  • identify the functions of Internet Explorer Protected Mode
  • recognize how to check a web site using the Phishing Filter
  • recognize how to install and delete ActiveX controls
  • recognize how to set advanced security options for Internet Explorer 7
  • configure and troubleshoot security for Windows Internet Explorer 7
  • identify Windows Firewall settings
  • recognize how to use Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WFAS) to specify advanced firewall settings
  • identify the steps for troubleshooting firewall issues
  • recognize how to use Windows Defender to manually scan your computer
  • recognize how to configure Windows Defender
  • troubleshoot Windows Defender and Windows Firewall issues
  • identify the features of Windows Server Update Service (WSUS)
  • recognize how to configure automatic updates using Group Policy
  • recognize how to troubleshoot client self-update issues
  • recognize how to view updates and change settings in Windows Update
  • apply security patches and updates in Windows Vista

    • Course Number:
    mv_mvet_a03_it_enus