Chapter 2. Managing Windows Vista Systems

One of your primary responsibilities as an administrator is to manage the operating system configuration. As you’ll learn in this chapter, managing Windows Vista is very different from managing earlier versions of the Windows operating system, and these differences all stem from the important architecture changes discussed in Chapter 1. The previous chapter discussed the following changes:

  • Windows Vista has a modular architecture and its binaries are distributed using Windows Imaging Format (WIM) disk images. Because ...

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