Microsoft Vista Impact at Cornell TSP Forum November 15, 2006

Vista SIG Organized to help us (technical support providers) prepare for Vista’s inevitable appearance on campus More organized IT shops likely to be OK But it will show up on student computers as well as unmanaged staff and faculty computers after winter break SIG has met twice

Application Testing on Vista Central Applications Bear Access File Delivery Issues Basil to mitigate Thunderbird LDAP lookups Oracle Calendar Installer We need to publicize the results!

More Application Testing on Vista Local applications Is anyone testing? …and publicizing? Obtaining Vista for testing Contact Dan Bartholomew (drb1) Better yet, go to microsoft.com

Related Applications Internet Explorer v. 7 PeopleSoft, and many other applications don’t work Microsoft Office Sharp learning curve? Training will be available for end users Materials not yet developed You may want to wait a while before migrating

Licensing, Activation, and Imaging Which license to buy? Activation concerns Ghosting issues? EZ Backup issues? Microsoft’s 11 th hour change Dell bundle committee Input about default OS

Training Vista Event, January 9, 2007 HOLD THE DATE! Offered by Microsoft/New Horizons Morning and early afternoon: end user training Late afternoon: technical support provider training

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