Richard Awusi Supervisor: John Ebden Consultants: Jill Japp and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Richard Awusi

Supervisor: John Ebden

Consultants: Jill Japp and Billy Morgan

Linux is for nOObs!!

Presentation Outline

Project overview Editions Vista Installation

Features

Features Tests Conducted Deployment Conclusions

Project overview

New product

Released January 2007

Experiment with Vista

Features

Features Performance

Some comparisons with XP Deployment

Editions

There are six

Vista Starter – sucks Home Basic – sucks Home Premium – step up from Home Basic Home Premium – step up from Home Basic Business – networking features Ultimate – the mother load Vista Enterprise – volume licensers

Installation

Single install file

Windows Imaging (WIM) file Single DVD / CDs

30 – 40 minutes 30 – 40 minutes Huge drivers database

Auto system configuration (WinSAT)

Updates immediately after install

Features

ReadyBoost

Memory on a stick Must meet speed requirements

2.5 MB/s throughput for 4KB random reads 2.5 MB/s throughput for 4KB random reads 1.5 MB/s throughput for 512KB random write 256 MB – 4 GB total size

SuperFetch

Programs in memory

Features (cont.)

User Interface

AERO – absent from Starter and Home Basic

…more pretty pictures of AERO

Windows Flip 3D Windows Flip Live thumbnails

Features (cont.)

User Account Control

Good idea Elevation, even in admin mode I find it an irritation I find it an irritation Disable: Run - secpol.msc\Local Policies\Security

ShadowCopy

System Protection – restore points Backups of files created

Performance enhancers

Defragmentation

Automatic and manual Runs once a week

Searching Searching

Index user documents Instant search on index

Tests

SuperFetch

Firefox 2.0 and Outlook 2007 startup times

Firefox startup times Outlook 2007 startup times

2 4 6 8 10 12 14 1 2 7 8 14 30 Startup time (seconds) Days since start of test Vista XP 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 1 2 7 14 30 Start up time (seconds) Days since start of test Vista XP

Tests (cont.)

File copy test

Public network

02:24

Numerous file copy Single large file copy

00:00 00:14 00:28 00:43 00:57 01:12 01:26 01:40 01:55 02:09 02:24 1 2 3 Time (minutes:seconds) Copy number XP Vista 09:24 09:27 09:30 09:33 09:36 09:38 09:41 09:44 09:47 1 2 3 Time (minutes:seconds) Copy number XP Vista

Tests (cont.)

System strain

HeavyLoad

Tests (cont.)

Memory tests

Performance test

Compatibility Tests

Office 2003 and Office 2007 Drivers Games

Unreal Tournament 2004

Unreal Tournament 2004 FIFA 08 Quake 3 Doom 3

Security

User Account Control BitLocker Drive encryption IE less coupled with system

Network Access Protection

Network Access Protection

Deployment

GHOST ImageX

Deployment - GHOST

Sector based application Initial deployment failed Machine setup

Boot manager changed

Boot manager changed Boot.ini changed to Boot Configuration Data Editor

(BCDEdit.exe)

Enter bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device boot Enter bcdedit /set {default} device boot Enter bcdedit /set {default} osdevice boot

Successful deployment

Deployment - ImageX

ImageX - File based application Two ways of deployment

Create Master Computer

Command-line image creation

Command-line image creation

Server based - BDD

GUI – image created on server

Unable to auto-multicast

Conclusions – Pro’s

Vista is nice to work with SuperFetch awesome Great user interface

Auto defrag. Great

Auto defrag. Great Range of editions for different users But…

Conclusions – Con’s

No real killer feature other than AERO AERO becomes obsolete after a while Some features could have been done better – UAC and

instant search instant search

Too many editions – most powerful pricy Driver issues

Conclusion

XP still does the job just fine

XP still does the job just fine

Possible extensions

BitLocker Drive Encryption ImageX deployment on a large scale Server 2003 and Longhorn domain testing

Network Access Protection

Network Access Protection Extensive system tests

Questions?

…bearing in mind Google will have lots more answers!