Course Overview
This 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.
Audience
This course is intended for IT Professionals who want 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.
Skills Gained
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.
Module 2: Configuring Windows Vista Media Applications
This module explains how to configure the Microsoft Windows Media Player and the 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.
Module 4: Configuring Mobile Computers
This module explains how to configure the settings in Windows Vista specifically for mobile computers, and also explains how to configure power management.
Module 5: Configuring Tablet PC Settings
This module explains how to configure the options in Windows Vista specifically for a Tablet PC.
Module 6: Networking Mobile Computers
This module explains how to configure wireless networking and how to use Windows Vista tools to use offline files.
