Federal Windows Vista Team

Comments, thoughts and experiences related to Windows Vista as provided by the Microsoft Federal Windows Vista Team. Team members include Rob Campbell, Ed Leary, Yvette Maybee, Jeff Schnegelberger, Patrick Svenburg and Rhys Ziemer.

Windows Deployment Services and x64-based Systems

The Federal team is a big fan of Windows Deployment Services (WDS). We have used WDS for large scale...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/30/2007

Windows Vista wins GCN Best of FOSE 2007 Awards

At FOSE, the annual government IT conference at the DC Convention Center, Windows Vista was awarded...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/22/2007

How to setup the Key Management Service on Windows Vista

This blog post outlines the process to setup the Key Management Service setup on a Windows Vista...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 01/04/2007

Install times for Vista RC2 (from DVD)

Last week Vista RC2 (build 5744) was released. This week I spent some time testing RC2. One...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/12/2006

Windows Vista Step-by-Step Guides for IT Professionals

Check out the link below for a great set of Windows Vista documents. Note that many of these were...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/24/2006

How to create a custom Vista DVD

The steps below outline how to create a custom Vista DVD. The idea here is that you can manually...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/20/2006

New Windows blog and much more

I would like to point out a new Microsoft Windows blog that recently came on line called Shell...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/20/2006

Internet Explorer keyboard shortcuts

Aaron over at the IEBlog posted a great compilation of IE 6/7 keyboard shortscuts back in February,...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/13/2006

"...best version of Windows ever"

It's hard keeping track of what is being written about Windows Vista in various media outlets but I...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/29/2006

Two+ Weeks after Beta 2

First off, I need to apologize for not having any new content up here in a while, but with the...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/14/2006

Windows Vista Firewall

Our colleague Jesper Johansson has a great post up on Windows Vista Firewall - definitely worth...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/01/2006

Vista Build 5365 / UAC Notes

Recently Microsoft made available to select TAP/Beta testing groups a new build (5365) which I just...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/28/2006