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LOOK ON FOR THE WINNER OF THE MANAGEABILITY
The Active Directory and Group Policy was the active key behind the development of the Windows 2000 and the Windows XP. IT shops; for the first time had the ability to address the myriad configuration management issues plaguing traditional and the client installations by way of rules and regulations of the standardized and the centralized repository. The Vista version adds up extensions to this. Although, along with the security improvements, these have also been resolved. For instance, the Vista adds upto the support for locking the devices that have been blocked at the client level which is a feature, good enough as with this you can restrict the users from performing certain external media devices like the CD driver or USB keys but then again, this was another matter solved by the third-party management agents long back. Similarly the inability of it to let you install printer drivers with the help of the non-administrator account is a feature that the Vista now allows by way of a Group Policy extension, solved way back by the large IT shops or via the elevation utilities. For the support, Vista has the new image-based installation and deployment mechanism which forms part of the very little noteworthy manageability improvements with less benefit from moving to Vista from systems management perspective. The image-based installation model helps the IT shops catch a “golden” working image of their runtime in a big way spinning it out to a multiple systems irrespective of their hardware. To come at par with this wads challenge tough enough for the XP, so obviously Vista wins in this case but with the myriad third party installation and management tools, it has to be a no TKO.

THE CONCLUSION
Vista will give you very less or even no ROI from a systems management perspective although its all new image-based installation model is a sure shot but the lack of innovation in the other aspects makes Vista’ less competitive.

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