Archive for the 'Enterprise' Category
Microsoft releases Vista migration tools
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Microsoft has released six new tools that should help businesses migrate to Vista. The tools do everything from figuring out a computer’s hardware compatibility to solving pesky and oftentimes complicated volume licensing issues. One tool even blasts through a company’s network to rate their hardware.
HOW TO: deploy Windows Vista out to desktops from a central server using WDS
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006With Vista Business and Enterprise editions out and about, tools and infrastructure utilities which support Windows are getting an overhaul. One extremely useful tool for desktop admins wanting to centrally deploy Windows is Microsoft’s Remote Installation Services (RIS). It ties in to Active Directory and NTFS security, and lets individual workstations connect to a central [...]
Priming Vista Security for the Enterprise
Thursday, December 14th, 2006Windows Vista security is in some ways a work in progress that’s going to require lots of partner support and enterprise customer understanding before it’s really ready for prime time.
Microsoft is right to tout Vista security enhancements, but some of them feel kind of make do. After all, Microsoft jettisoned security technologies like Palladium, just [...]
Half of American Business PCs Cant Run Vista
Thursday, December 7th, 2006About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium.
10 things to consider before taking the Vista plunge
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006While Windows Vista is now available for big businesses, organizations vary widely in their plans for adopting the new operating system.
Some have plans to aggressively move to Vista, while others are taking a far more wait-and-see approach. Here are some things you need to consider before taking the plunge.
Dell Makes Vista Migration A Snap
Friday, December 1st, 2006Dell today announced it is ready to help business customers adopt Microsoft’s Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007, based on a software migration strategy designed to reduce the time and complexity of managing the change.
Windows Vista is big for Microsofts bottom line. Its also really big.
Thursday, November 30th, 2006On Thursday, the software giant will launch the long-awaited, newest version of its operating system, Vista, for business customers. They’ll also release new corporate versions of their Office products, like Word and Excel, and their Exchange e-mail server software. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer will speak at a launch event Thursday morning in New York, and [...]
Windows Vista Security Not Exciting Businesses All that Much
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006A couple of indications of how businesses are thinking about the highly promoted security enhancements in Windows Vista caught our eye today.
When Trusted Strategies and Shavlik Technologies surveyed U.S. IT pros about security issues from mobile security to patching to configuration management, fewer than a third said they thought Windows Vista would solve “most” or [...]
Vista guidelines for enterprise security unveiled
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Microsoft has released detailed guidelines for locking down Windows Vista in the enterprise, giving IT managers both advice and tools to help them secure desktops and laptops.
The "Windows Vista Security Guide," available online as well as in a download package, walks administrators through two different baseline security configurations. The first, dubbed "Enterprise Client," is the [...]
Windows Vistas Pros and Cons
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006While the naysayers were still calling for Microsoft not to ship Windows Vista until sometime in the spring of 2007, Microsoft announced that it is definitively on track to deliver Vista this year to business users and in January 2007 for everyone else. What does this mean for you?
Well, Vista is not something that can [...]
