Deploying and Administering Windows Vista Bible

575 Pages·2008·7.51 MB·English

by  Bob Kelly

Deploying and
Administering
Windows Vista
®
Bible
Bob Kelly
Danielle Ruest
Nelson Ruest
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Deploying and
Administering
Windows Vista
®
Bible
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Deploying and
Administering
Windows Vista
®
Bible
Bob Kelly
Danielle Ruest
Nelson Ruest
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Deploying and Administering Windows Vista® Bible
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This work is dedicated to my family and friends. Thank you all for
your support and patience.
—BK
We dedicate this book to you, the reader, who has to work with
computers every day and want to get it right. We hope you find it
useful and that it saves you time and effort every day.
—DR and NR
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About the Authors
Bob Kelly has been working in the IT field for 18 years with a focus on application deployment, script-
ing, and the automated distribution of Windows systems and is a Microsoft MVP for Setup and
Deployment. Bob served in the U.S. Navy for eight years, ending his service as Systems Administrator
for the White House Communications Agency. He spent the next several years as a consultant support-
ing various commercial and government agencies in the Washington DC area as a systems architect. Bob
currently works as Senior Product manager for KACE (www.kace.com) where his primary focus is
support of the AppDeploy.com online community and its integration with the KBOX Systems
Management Appliance.
Bob founded AppDeploy.com (www.appdeploy.com) in September of 1999 as the premier destina-
tion for administrators seeking application and systems deployment expertise and has been writing for
the website ever since. He has produced several hours of free videos on deployment related topics as
well as several product reviews. Bob is author of The Definitive Guide to Desktop Administration as well as
Start to Finish Guide to Scripting with KiXtart. He has gone on to speak at events like the Microsoft
Management Summit and has written several articles, white papers, and books on the topics of scripting
and desktop management. For more on Bob, visit www.bkelly.com.
Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest are both enterprise IT architects with over 20 years of experience in
migration planning and network, PC, change management projects, and server infrastructure design.
Danielle is a Microsoft MVP for Virtual Machines. Nelson is an MCSE, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and
Microsoft MVP in Failover Clustering. Both are very familiar with all versions of Microsoft Windows as
well as security, Active Directory, systems management, intra- and extranet configurations, collaboration
technologies, office automation, and virtualization solutions. Together they have co-authored The
Complete Reference for Windows Server 2008 (http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-
Server-2008-Reference/dp/0072263652), The Definitive Guide to Vista Migration (http://
www.realtime-nexus.com/dgvm.htm) which is referenced on the companion CD, Deploying
Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 (http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/
books/10938.aspx), as well as Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory (http://www.
microsoft.com/MSPress/books/11754.aspx), and that was just last year. This year they are
working on two books on virtualization in the datacenter.
Danielle and Nelson work for Resolutions Enterprises Ltd. (www.reso-net.com), a consulting firm
focused on IT Infrastructure and dynamic datacenter design. Resolutions has been offering OS migration
solutions for every version of Windows since Windows 2.0. It now has offered virtualization solutions
for the past ten years. These solutions range from testing and development support environments to the
virtualization of enterprise production systems. Danielle and Nelson have been instrumental in the
development of these offerings to meet customer requirements as well as their promotion through multi-
ple articles, presentations, and conferences.
Bob Kelly, Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest have also participated in the production of the documenta-
tion for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, which was called Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) when
Microsoft first prepared it for release in support of Windows Vista deployments. Together, they bring
this expertise to this Bible.
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