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5115 - Installing and Configuring the Windows Vista Operating System Training
3 days - Please call us for dates & prices
Course code: 5115
This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to install and configure Windows Vista desktops.
It will focus on four main areas: installing, securing, networking, and browsing. By the end of the course, the student will have installed and configured a Windows Vista desktop that is secure, on the network, and ready for browsing.
This is the first course in the Windows Vista curriculum and will serve as the entry point for other Windows Vista Technology Specialist courses.
Course Objectives:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Install Windows Vista.
- Upgrade to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition.
- Configure post-installation system settings.
- Configure basic networking.
- Configure advanced networking.
- Configure user account security.
- Configure network security.
- Configure Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.
Course Content
- Module 1: Installing Windows Vista
- Module 2: Upgrading and Migrating to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
- Module 3: Configuring Post-Installation System Settings
- Module 4: Sharing Files by Using Windows Vista
- Module 5: Configuring Advanced Networking
- Module 6: Configuring User Account Security
- Module 7: Configuring Network Security
- Module 8: Configuring Internet Explorer 7.0
Course Pre-requisites:
The primary audience for this course is 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 learning about Windows Vista technologies in greater detail.
- 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.
- On the job, work from functional specifications, defined polices/conventions/standards, and documented operational procedures received from superiors.
Windows Vista technology specialists may work for an enterprise, a medium-sized organization, a small organization, or a retail organization.
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Familiarity with computer hardware and devices, such as the ability to look into device manager and look for unsupported devices.
- Basic TCP/IP knowledge, such as knowing why you need to have a valid IP address.
- Basic Microsoft Windows and Active Directory knowledge, such as knowledge about domain user accounts, domain vs. local user accounts, user profiles, and group membership.
- Experience with mapping network file shares, such as being familiar with UNC paths and mapping local resources to server/share.
- Experience with running commands from a command window, such as the 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.
Windows Vista Training Course Recommended Reading
Windows Vista™ Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) (18 Dec 2006) by Joan Preppernau - buy from amazon
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