Course Length: One Day
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.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Maintain and
optimize Windows Vista systems.
• Configure Windows Vista Media Applications.
• Configure Windows Vista Productivity Applications.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
| • | Completed or have equivalent knowledge and skills to 5115: Installing and Configuring the Windows Vista Operating System. |
| • | 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.
Course Outline
Module 1: Maintaining and Optimizing Windows Vista Systems
This module explains how to use the performance tools and diagnostics tools to maintain and optimize Windows Vista systems. This module also explains how to configure Windows Update.
Lessons
• Maintaining
Performance by Using Windows Vista Performance Tools
• Optimizing Windows by Using Windows Vista Diagnostics Tools
• Configuring the Windows Update Tool
Lab: Maintaining and Optimizing Windows Vista
• Monitoring
General System Activity by Using Resource Overview
• Viewing System Stability by Using Reliability Monitor
• Configuring Windows Update
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Maintain performance
by using Windows Vista performance tools.
• Optimize reliability by using Windows Vista diagnostic tools.
• Configure the Windows Update tool.
Module 2: Configuring Windows Vista Media Applications
This module explains how to configure the Windows Media Player and the Windows Media Center.
Lessons
• Configuring
Windows Vista Media Player
• Configuring Windows Media Center
Lab: Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Vista Media Applications
• Configuring
Windows Media Center
• Configuring Windows Media Player
• Troubleshooting Windows Media Player
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Configure
Windows Vista Media Player
• Configure Windows Media Center
Module 3: Configuring Windows Vista Productivity Applications
This module explains how to configure the productivity tools included with every edition of Windows Vista.
Lessons
• Configuring
Windows Sidebar
• Configuring Windows Mail
• Configuring Windows Meeting Space
• Configuring Windows Calendar
• Configuring Windows Fax and Scan
Lab : Configuring Windows Vista Productivity Applications
• Setting Up
Windows Vista Productivity Applications
• Configuring Windows Mail
• Configuring Windows Sidebar
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Configure
Windows Sidebar
• Configure Windows Mail
• Configure Windows Meeting Space
• Configure Windows Calendar
• Configure Windows Fax and Scan
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