Networking

Network Center

The Network Center allows a quick and easy way to see if you are connected to a network and whether or not that network allows you to connect to the internet. It also gives you information about the network you are connected to and options to connect to other networks and seek out other computers connected to the same network as you.

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Network Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

If you experience troubles connecting to your network, Windows Vista will ship with a network diagnostics and troubleshooting tool to allow for an automated system to try and help determine the issue with your current connection. This allows the user more information about the problem or even possible solutions to it.

Improved Wireless Networking

Wireless in Vista is now even more secure due to Vista's support for the latest security protocols.

Wireless Network Provisioning

Wireless Network Provisioning allows for automated connections to public WiFi's and open wireless networks.

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Windows Mobility Center

The Windows Mobility Center is a centralized location for all your mobile PC's needs. This includes power, networking, screen brightness, and more. Computer Manufacturers can customize this tab to suit their particular machine, so even more options are possible.

Network Projection

Network Projection allows your machine to automatically detect networked projectors over the wireless or wired network and allow you easy connection to them.

Presentation Settings

Presentation Settings allow you to save profiles for various video outputs. For instance, when using your screen you might want the machine to start the screensaver after 10 minutes of idle time, but when using the same machine for presentations over a projector you might want it to never go to the screensaver. Instead of changing the settings each time, Windows will remember what you chose and saved last time and use those settings automatically.

Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop allows the user to connect to another machine that they are networked with either the the Local Area Network(LAN) or internet. This enables them to use the connected machine as if they were physically sitting at it. The ability to host the Remote Desktop connection allows for others to connect to your machine and use this functionality.

Domain Join

A "Domain" is a network model typically used by businesses and enterprises to manage their connected computers. Several versions of Windows Vista including the Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate versions, will be able to join a domain-type network.

Group Policy Support

Group Policy is another enterprise used management technology. It enables administrators to give certain machines and even files specific rights and procedures. The Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate versions of Windows Vista will have support for Group Policy.

Roaming Profiles

Roaming Profiles allow for users to move from machine to machine on a network and be presented with the same desktop environment, my documents files, and other personalized settings for each machine. This enables people to easily move about the workplace with little inconvenience. It also allows for people to upgrade or change computers and not lose any of their data.

Folder Redirection

Folder Redirection enables an administrator to make the My Documents, for instance, point to the users shared folder on the network instead of on the local machine. This makes backup easier and allows for people to move from machine to machine easier and continue working.

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Last Updated: 04/24/2008