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Subject: Vista Business RTM works great so far on SBS!
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Jamison West User is Offline
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1/06/2007 01:31 AM  
No real problems for us. Clean install of Vista Business. After initial install it is a little different than XP. Instead of creating an administrator account with a password and your new named account with no password, Vista creates a disabled administrator account with no password and a named account with your password. We enabled the administrator account, logged in as that, created the administrator password, then deleted the named account Vista made us create.
 
We then ran the connectcomputer wizard and it worked perfectly. Rebooted twice automatically as expected, just like XP. It showed the SBS_netsetup account at that point, which no longer worked, as expected. We just clicked to switch accounts and it automatically chose the SBS domain. Our username and password worked and everything was fine from there. If we run across more as we use it I'll let you know!
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1/24/2007 01:24 PM  
tells you how to enable the administrator account - not  an easy task!
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1/25/2007 10:30 AM  
Yes, working well here too, had it installed for a week with no issues, apart from my shared printer not installing as Epson have not released a Vista driver yet for fresh installs of Vista - however if you upgrade from XP the driver that is carried over works - strange!
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2/11/2007 10:40 AM  
For those who would like to keep the Administrator account disabled (default) on the clients, while still connecting using the client deployment tools:
 
 
Client Update: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930955 (x86 and x64 versions available)
 
For the most part ConnectComputer works as expected, however, Outlook 2003 didn't deploy automatically for me.  The quick fix was to map the servers ClientApps folder on the client temporarily, and run the install from there.
 
There is an annoying UAC prompt upon log in, even when using a "Computer Administrator" account (which I assume isn't present with the Administrator account), but it's a minor issue.
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