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New Whitepaper: The Business Value of Windows Vista

This one is for all you IT professionals out there. A lot of you are probably having discussions inside your company about when to deploy Windows Vista, or you've deployed it and want to know which of the new capabilities can have the biggest impact on your business.

To help in your evaluations we've released a new white paper, The Business Value of Windows Vista: Five Reasons to Deploy Now. (Download the XPS or PDF.)  This document summarizes the top enterprise features, latest customer case studies, and research on the capabilities of Windows Vista all in one place.

What are the top 5 reasons? Here's a peek at what's inside the doc:

  • 1. Improves the Security of PCs and Confidential Data. Windows Vista Enterprise had 20% fewer security vulnerabilities than Windows XP SP2 did in 2007-and it includes BitLocker Drive Encryption to help protect your confidential data.
  • 2. Unlocks the Potential of Today's Mobile PCs. Windows Mobility Center helps users quickly access key mobility settings all in one place and research shows that Windows Vista can help customers save as much as $251 per mobile PC, per year.
  • 3. Makes You and Your People More Productive. Find
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Written by Chris Flores on June 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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AGPM whitepaper out there

Just a “quick note” this time!

A nice looking whitepaper is available from the Microsoft Group Policy Team… This time it’s an AGPM overview: Advanced Group Policy Management Overview

Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on November 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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Group Policy Revolution Coming Up!

It’s exciting, fantastic, amazing, wonderful and totally cool - Microsoft has FINALLY announced what is going to happen with the PolicyMaker stuff they got when taking over DesktopStandards… It’s going to be released with Windows Server 2008 as many of us had hoped for!

This is just GREAT I can tell you - and it will available to the public with the RC1 release of Windows Server 2008, maybe even before as a separate Beta program I’m told…

Microsoft decided to call it “Group Policy Preferences” or just “GP Preferences”. So, what can we do with this you ask? Well, here’s some of it:

  • Map network drives
  • Set Environment variables
  • Copy Files to clients
  • Create and update INI files
  • Modify registry settings on the clients (REG_SZ, REG_DWORD, REG_BINARY, REG_MULTI_SZ, and REG_EXPAND_SZ )
  • Create Shortcuts (URL/File/Shell)
  • Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
  • Control Devices
  • Set Folder Options
  • Define File Associations
  • Tweak Internet Settings
  • Handle Local Users and Groups (change passwords, add/remove from groups, disable users etc.)
  • Set Network Options (like VPN or Dial-Up connections)
  • Configure Power Options (Windows XP)
  • Map Printers (even TCP/IP printers)
  • Set Regional Options
  • Create Scheduled Tasks
  • Set properties on Services
  • Tweak the Start Menu
  • and so on….

As you can see, it’s quite impressive and something that will make companies around the world turn to Windows Server 2008 ASAP… I think and

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on November 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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