Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 1.0 Released

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power supply calculator — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:37:02 GMT

Indeed, it is very handy for planning purchases!

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hrdn — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:35:09 GMT

I'm happy to announce the availability of Windows Vista Hardware Assessment guidance pages

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The_Thunderdog — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:39:50 GMT

Thanks, Baldwin; Very handy for planning purchases.

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djcrazyb — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:54:14 GMT

Hi All Hope i can get da ans

well i hv a hp pavilion dv2122tu i recently upgrade to vista my concern is tht whn i mute the sound i can still hear the music ...i cannot use my sound drive but only microsofts..i connect my laptop to my speakers and mute the speaker will mute but the inbuilt speakers continue to play how can i stop this

please help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Guidance Pages now available in 8 new languages

Windows Vista Team Blog — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:53:46 GMT

Hi all, We are happy to announce the availability of Windows Vista Hardware Assessment guidance pages

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FredOne — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:24:26 GMT

Hi - I'm answering Michael Liley above, since no one else seems to have done so.

The absolute best place for vista drivers is http://www.radarsync.com/vista. Better than microsoft's pages. Unfortunately, the vista upgrade has been rocky for lots of us in terms of drivers. After searching around a lot I found this site, and it's helped me a lot. Of course it won't help in the case of vendors who aren't releasing vista drivers, but sometimes the xp drivers will work as well.

Fred

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Baldwin Ng — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:22:25 GMT

While the current limit is 5,000 PCs, it is possible to re-scan the same network a few times to catch the un-scanned PCs as long as you are pointing to the same database file.

Hope it helps,

Baldwin Ng

(Product Manager, Solution Accelerators Team)

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Baldwin Ng — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:20:43 GMT

The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment development team has started collecting feedback on the v2.0 feature list. On the top of the list is OU-filtering/targeting - a favorite "ask" from many WVHA users.

If you have other ideas, please email us as wvhafdbk@microsoft.com.

Best,

Baldwin Ng

(Product Manager, Solution Accelerators Team)

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jcwarren — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:55:25 GMT

My excitement at discovering this tool was only exceeded by my disappointment during actual usage. The primary disappointment is in the fact that out of the 10 or 12 times I've run the program, it's only finished scanning the 2000+ machines it found once. The rest of the time it just sits there spinning with one or two machines left to check in the inventory collection. I did get one to complete far enough to get a workbook generated but that's it.

I'm using the Active Directory discovery and two accounts to try on each machine. One is a domain account and the other is a local account. Both should be members of the local administrators group on the workstations.

Which brings up a serious annoyance with the tool, and that's the inability to restrict the discovery to OUs. Servers won't be "upgraded" to Vista and so there's no need to scan them, is there?

Anyway, are there known issues related to the scans that cause them to hang? I usually give up and cancel the scan after three or four days since there is something clearly wrong. It's a great tool conceptually and I'd sure like to get it working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Smita.jain — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:10:17 GMT

Dear Baldwin,

We have more than 30000 Machines in our AD(in single domain even the ou size is really big). However I can asses only 5000 odd computers only, Is there any way to run the tool in batch (like if I want to asses machines from a particular OU) if its possiible how to go about it.

Windows Vista 2007 Deployment and Management Tools

HiED West Technology Briefings, News & Training — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:53:36 GMT

Windows Vista deployment tools are now available to help you deploy Windows Vista. Below is a summary

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alyandon — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:33:00 GMT

I can't really find an appropriate blog entry to post this in so I apologize in advance. :-/

Chad Harris suggested that I try and make you guys aware of what _appears_ to be an issue with Vista's anti-piracy features that I am experiencing.

My post:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup&mid=2146e384-1a30-4692-9ec8-e4389da821f9

Someone else that seems to be experiencing the same issue:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup/browse_thread/thread/ccd392d5412cb1b3/f24bc805669d7932?lnk=st&q=vista+license+service+control+panel&rnum=1&hl=en#f24bc805669d7932

The executive summary of the thread is that my non-activated install of Vista Business that is only a few days into the 30 day evaluation period is showing symptoms of running in reduced functionality mode without any warning or dialog informing me as such. Stopping and restarting the Software License service restores normal functioning until the next reboot.

Regards,

Shelby Cain

Scopri se il tuo pc funziona con Windows Vista

WaR oF cOmPuTeR — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:02:48 GMT

Microsoft ha deciso di pensare a tutto e ha lanciato Windows Hardware Assessment Tool, lo strumento per monitorare l'hardware per Windows Vista: in sostanza si tratta di uno strumento in grado di monitorare lo stato di tutte le macchine connesse ad u

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Birdie — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:05:42 GMT

Hi Baldwin, this tool sounds really awesome, I will be trying it out on my PC. ( I already have Vista on my new laptop)

At the risk of sounding like the vista rookie I am, I was wondering if the device/driver bit would help diagnose & 'hopefully' find solutions for a driver conflict I had on another laptop (brandnew that crapped out in 16 days... 2 days AFTER the return time haha)that already has vista on it?

I f this question is not appropriate for this site please feel free to email me personally, at birdie2'at' telus.net

Thanks for your time,

Birdie

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mliley — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:08:37 GMT

,Hi Baldwin,

I wonder if you could help me please. I'm a recent convert to Windows Vista and although I like its presentation, the fact that i have to search continuously for non-microsft software drivers for it is most annoying. The latest one to fail is my E61 Nokia PDA which doies not have a driver for Windows Vista and Nokia advise me they don't intend to have one for any of their phones for windows vista in the near future. This seems most curious for the biggest mobile phone company in the world. You would have though that a least a few of your 30k odd people who were supposed to be your beta test base would have also been Nokia users. By the way it also affects my bluetooth connection for my pc as this doesn't have one for vista either.

Do you have any suggestions as to how i might overcome this?

Regards

Michael Liley

mliley@bigpond.net.au