Installing and Configuring the Windows Vista Operating System

Description:
This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to install and configure Windows Vista desktops.

It will focus on four main areas: installing, securing, networking, and browsing. By the end of the course, the student will have installed and configured a Windows Vista desktop that is secure, on the network, and ready for browsing.

This is the first course in the Windows Vista curriculum and will serve as the entry point for other Windows Vista Technology Specialist courses.

Target Audience:
The primary audience for this course is IT Professionals wishing to become technology specialists. A Windows Vista technology specialist is defined as a technology specialist interested in learning about, assessing skills, using reference products, or taking exams to prove his or her knowledge/skills/experience related to Microsoft's Windows Vista technologies.

Technology specialists:

• Value and may be working toward an extensive, deep technical knowledge in a particular technology.
• Are interested in drilling down into the details of Windows Vista technologies.
• Want to learn or test that they know and can apply existing concepts, practices, procedures, policies, and guidelines.
• Work in roles where most questions have clear right and wrong answers.
• Focus primarily on the "how to" associated with Windows Vista technologies, and they are interested in drilling down into the details of the technologies themselves.
• On the job, work from functional specifications, defined polices/conventions/standards, and documented operational procedures from superiors.

• Familiarity with PC hardware and devices. For example, ability to look into device manager and look for unsupported devices.
• Basic TCP/IP knowledge. For example, that you need to have a valid IP address.
• Basic Windows and Active Directory knowledge. For example, domain user accounts, domain vs. local user accounts, user profiles, and group membership.
• Experience with mapping network file shares. For example, familiar with UNC paths, mapping local resources to server/share.
• Experience with running commands from a command window. For example, DOS command prompt.
• Experience with reviewing BIOS settings.

• Install Windows Vista.
• Upgrade to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition.
• Configure post-installation system settings.
• Configure basic networking.
• Configure advanced networking.
• Configure user account security.
• Configure network security.
• Configure Internet Explorer 7.0.