Vista Deployment Den

(Updated 21st March 2007)

So you're a partner or customer wanting to deploy Vista, but you've got a few questions?  Let me guess, they're about app compatibility or hardware requirements, upgrades, user migration? Am I getting close?  Guess what!!! We already thought of that for you and it's worth reading how you can move some of these roadblocks out of your way and get deploying!

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James' Guides to Deployment (updated frequently)

Vista Driver Compatibility
Assess your Hardware the easy way!
Software inventory and app compatibility testing the easy way!

Deployment Resources

Apps that work on Vista
Microsoft IT Early Adopter Experiences & Best Practices

Webcast on GPOs in Vista

Partner Learning Center Search for Vista Events

Windows Vista Virtual Labs

Vista Step by Step for IT Pros (features how to update your Domain Controller for Vista)

IT Showcase - how MS did Vista

Community Based Deployment Wiki Deployment Tools BDD Business Desktop Deployment is THE way to deploy Vista. Chock full of tools, resources, whitepapers, bestpractices - it's a veritable feast of deployment goodness! ACT The Application Compatibility Toolkit is part of BDD. Are you partners complaining about getting apps to run on Vista? They should use this tool to gather information on which apps are running on their environment and use global community information to check compatibility which will save them doing their own testing. Deployment Workbench An IT Manager's workbench - central place from which to get the job done Hardware Assessment A tool which can scan the network and figure out which components within each machine need to be upgraded. Minimise expenditure and upgrade headaches! User Migration Tool Move user files, settings favourites etc with the minimum of fuss!