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Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007

This could be well worth some time spent to assist with deploying windows Vista machines in a business enviroment.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/desktopdeployment/bdd/2007/default.mspx

Telnet client in Vista…

If you need to diagnose something by using Telnet you could be a little disappointed when you get command not recognised.

Good news however - the telnet client is there just not installed by default.

See here for more information -

http://blogs.msdn.com/shamit/archive/2006/07/07/659513.aspx

Installing a self signed certificate on Windows Vista

If you need to install a self signed certificate on a windows vista computer then you can follow these instructions -

Visit the website with the untrusted certificate. You will see the warning message as shown below, choose continue anyway.

First warning

On the address bar you will see a message for a certificate error. Click on this and choose view certificate.

View the certificate

You will now see a certificate just like in windows XP except the option to Install Certificate is missing… This is because I.E. no longer runs with administrative privilages - even if you are an administrator.

Normal certificate

You can launch IE with administrative privilages by right clicking on the IE icon and choosing run as administrator.

Run IE as Administrator

Once you click on “Run as Administrator” you will get a security warning which you must agree to.

You can then navigate back to the secure website and click to view the certificate. This time you will recive the option to install the certificate.

certificate viewed as administrator

On the Install certificate wizard you should choose to specify where the certificate should be installed and add it to the trustsed root store.

Choose trusted root in wizard

You will get one final warning message and then you will be ready to go

Final Warning

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