Vista: on a domain!

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UAC is designed to keep you aware of something (including YOU) that is attempting to make a system change. Get used to it - it's the nature of the job we do when we make system changes on a daily basis; users won't be pestered all the time. That's the whole point... standard users will be able to do the things that they SHOULD be able to do (including printer installs, something that previously required admin credentials), while alerting them when they're trying to do something they SHOULDN'T. One really nice thing is being able to do something with admin credentials while the local user is logged in. Used to be, you'd have to log the local user off, log on as admin, make the change, log off as admin, and log the local user on... pain in the butt.

No idea why you can't install printers if you shut off UAC. Personally, I'd keep UAC on for the reasons above... just click OK, it's really not that big a deal. UAC will alert you unless you're logged on with the local Administrator account (which is disabled by default)... even if you're part of the Administrator's group. Only Administrator is immune, from what I understand.

You can configure the laptop so that it shuts down completely rather than go into sleep mode.

You *can* repair a link. When you right-click on a LAN connection, there's a Diagnose and repair option, which will release/renew and all that good stuff. To do ipconfig from the command line, you need to run a command prompt as an admin.

No idea what's up with the VPN software. Not sure it's any consolation, but MANY programs out there aren't Vista-compatible, which is why most companies are delaying implementation of Vista... not because of the bugs, or waiting on SP1, but on the basis of application compatibility.

 

I played around with Longhorn (or whats now been called Windows Server 2008 ) and connected my Vista machine to the domain I created...worked a treat...I think I have a thread created somewhere...I will dig it up and you can see my progress at the time...I havent been on it much lately...but hope to very soon.

And yes Vista is very good to use....despite what others say

here is the thread:

http://www.certforums.com/forums/thread16749.html

 

Didn't 2000 & XP allow you to do that with Run As...?
Seemed pretty simple to me

UAC (and the cost!) is the main reason why I haven't upgraded yet!

Gonna get my first play on Vista this weekend when my Dad brings his swanky new laptop down!

 

Runas still exists.

UAC can be disabled.

 

I found out the other nite that you can infact disable UAC within the msconfig console under tools, amongst a whole host of other things (including CMD, regedit, Task Manager, computer management to name but a few) that not even XP listed (but then XP never had a tools section under msconfig did it?). Saves having to go thru control panel and trawling around there.

 

In my experiance UAC is only really annoying to techs for the first week or two of a new build
even our systems tend to stabalise after that and installs are few and far between, as is a lot of the stuff that actually needs admin rights

not sure why you had printer problems mate, mine install fine with and without UAC

 

Did you manage to resolve this?

Do share...

 

We run Vista here on some 15 computers. They are all on a domain (2003). We had some minor problems so far. So far I'm fairly happy with Vista.