This 2-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully configure mobile computers and applications that run Windows Vista.
It will also provide them with the knowledge and skills necessary to ensure successful configuration of the IT Pro tools and productivity applications that ship with Windows Vista.
Students will focus on six main areas: maintenance and optimization tools, media applications, productivity applications, notebook computers, mobile devices, and Tablet PCs.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
Completed or have equivalent knowledge and skills in 5115: Installing and Configuring the Windows Vista Operating System
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
In addition, it is recommended, but not required, that students have completed:
First Look Clinic 5056 - First Look: Getting Started with Windows Vista for IT Professionals
Hands-on-Lab 5057 - First Look: Getting Started with Windows Vista for IT Professionals
Important: This learning product will be most useful to people who intend to use their new skills and knowledge on the job immediately after training.
Audience
This course is intended for 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
Windows Vista technology specialists may work for an enterprise, a medium sized organization, a small organization, or a retail organization
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