Configuring Windows Vista Mobile Computing and Applications

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Vendor: 
Microsoft
Subject: 
Operating Systems
Overview: 

This 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 Contents: 

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 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.

    Lessons

  • Configuring Windows Media Player for Windows Vista
  • Configuring 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

    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.

    Lessons

  • Configuring Mobile Computer Settings
  • Configuring Mobile Devices
  • Configuring Power Options

    Module 5: Configuring Tablet PC Settings

    This module explains how to configure the options in Windows Vista specifically for a Tablet PC.

    Lessons

  • Configuring Windows Vista Tablet PC Settings
  • Configuring Pen and Input Devices

    Module 6: Networking Mobile Computers

    This module explains how to configure wireless networking and how to use Windows Vista tools to use offline files.

    Lessons

  • Networking Without Wires
  • Connecting to a Wireless Network
  • Working with Offline Files
    • Prerequisites: 
  • 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.
    • Benefits: 

    Credit towards professional certification exams MCTS: Windows Vista, Configuring, and MCITP: Enterprise Support Technician, MCITP: Customer Support Technician and MCITP: Enterprise Administrator.

    Audience: 

    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.
    • Materials Available: 
    Yes
    Duration: 
    24 hours
    For more information on Configuring Windows Vista Mobile Computing and Applications please feel free to contact us online or call us at 416-513-1535.