If you are redirecting the Desktop folder for users on Windows Vista laptops, a knowledgebase article just been published that might be useful to you. Here’s details of what this article addresses:
SYMPTOMS
Consider the following scenario:
On a Windows Vista-based computer, you redirect the Desktop folder to a network redirection folder.
You enable the Always Available offline option [...]
Gordon Martin from Canada writes a great blog on his experiences deploying Windows Vista. It’s a good read and there’s a fair number of little gems in there. I’ve been meaning to post some links to his site for some time, but I’ve just been slack and haven’t gotten around to it. Who is Gordon? [...]
Here’s a great example of the improvements to interaction with User Account Control in Windows Vista Service Pack -creating folders in system locations (e.g. the Start Menu, Program Files etc.). This is probably the most ‘in your face’ UAC interaction, and beyond this I’ve personally found UAC to be quite usable.
With the release version of [...]
Here’s a list of components developed for Windows Vista or during the same development time frame and included in Windows Vista, that have also been made available for installation on Windows XP:
Component
Notes
Windows Internet Explorer 7.0
Windows Internet Explorer 8.0 is now in beta
Windows Media Player 11
Windows Defender 1.1
.NET Framework 3.5
Redistributable download
.NET Framework 3.0
Included in .NET Framework [...]
