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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Date: 06/14/2006
Windows Vista Firewall
Our colleague Jesper Johansson has a great post up on Windows Vista Firewall - definitely worth...
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...
Date: 04/28/2006