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I can tell you that we've had our hands on Vista here at UR since it came out to Business users, in which I installed on my workstation and have now since removed Vista. Besides the drivers for one of my video cards not being available, Microsoft has said that they will not be supporting Exchange management tools for Vista, and their solution to this is to upgrade to Exchange 2007. The reason for this is Exchange 2007 works with IIS 7 and Exchange 2003 works with IIS 6 -- Vista only supports IIS 7 and it is not backwards compatible. Furthermore, the Server 2003 adminpak isn't available from Microsoft for Vista yet, so for my day to day administrative duties, Vista was becoming a productivity barrier, and not enhancing my productivity, which seems to be the basis behind Office 2007 / Vista. So until they determine a solution for the above items, I won't be running Vista here in the office. At home I may run Vista Ultimate just so I can join my Media Center PC to my domain. </rant> Chris Harper INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST University Relations / Michigan State University 1330 S. Harrison Rd., East Lansing, MI 48823-5200 Email: [log in to unmask] / Office: 517.355.6611 x 103 Web: http://ur.msu.edu / Cell: 616.291.1987 -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter J Murray Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 2:16 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MSUNAG] Vista plans? Hello Vista is not that far away, and I'm curious as to the plans of of various departments to roll it out, or not roll it out. I'll start out and say that I'll probably put one Vista machine on the network on a test machine and use it for my day to day machine for testing, as well as maintain an XP machine for support. If Vista proves to be ok, I'll probably put it on incoming new machines as they are replaced. I might take advantage of the express upgrade program on a couple of machines and laptops we ordered in the window since October. If it doesn't test well, then we'll just wait. Vista appears to be available from computer store for $30 for the media, and $59 for each upgrade license