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Anybody have Vista support stories yet?

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So, I'm a graduate assistant tech support guy at my college & was putting the finishing touches on our Dean's new Dell latitude 820. He's the dean & he wanted Vista, so we had upgraded it from xp pro, with everything working fine the night before. This morning, however, his dvd burner wasn't showing up in explorer.

OK, no problem, I just need to download the newer driver that supports Vista, right? Wrong. Even though the machine had a "Windows Vista Capable" sticker on it, Dell's website didn't have a driver for that specific dvd burner. I had to get walked through editing the registry by the chat feature.

Man, I really hope he doesn't show it off to faculty and make them all want upgrades before SP1 comes out.

Anyone else have issues at work with it?
 
I won't have to deal with Vista for quite some time, I love how we slowly adapt to new OS's.
 
Lol.. i plan to move my data off and install it this weekend.. mine is not vista compatible.. but thats the fun part 🙂
 
I've been working on my own issue, as I can't get the Zune software to stay up and running for more than a minute before it "stops working". A full reinstall later, it's still doing the same thing, and I can't seem to pinpont the damn problem. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
As soon as one person sees his laptop, word will spread, be prepared. No, I'm not joking, it sucks.
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Yeah, I hope my boss just tells them to screw themselves. We did it for the Dean because he's the freaking Dean. It's a lot easier to say no to an assistant professor.
 
Vista won't be happening at this company for a long long time. We've still not completely switched to XP from 2000.
 
I work for the Geek Squad, but haven't really had to deal with anything that bad yet. Mostly vendors lack of having product for us to install: antispyware,antivirus, etc. Webroot was easily the most prepared company, they had a vista-ready downloadable installer for us before release. Norton 07 stuff off the shelf of course doesn't work, haven't located viable downloads, their trialware won't take the keys from the retail (Tech bench edition) stuff we sell. We were finally able to get Trend Micro AV 2007 in, which makes life a lot easier.

I'm really not looking forward to trying to backup drives that have BitLocker activated, but thats only on Vista ultimate, and I haven't seen a single ultimate machine yet, only Basic - Home Premium. The nightmare will begin as soon as people bring in recently purchases XP machines and want us to install Vista from the MF provided discs. I just don't see it going very well.
 
Originally posted by: NathanBWF
I'm not deploying it in our company until I'm forced to. Same with Office 2K7.
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office 2k7 rocks though, however it doesn't really like xp to much. I tried it and it was not very happy.

We won't be installing vista or atleast another year, maybe more. I've been testing it since beta though, however for what we run I invision many compatability issues.

However I have yet to have a driver problem with vista, it seems to find every driver for me or if its not on the disk then it's on their servers.
 
My neighbor tried upgrading to Vista. His computer went into an infinite restart loop after he ran the upgrade install. He had to reinstall XP and then try upgrading again. I didn't hear if it worked the second time or not.
 
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
No, the only group with Vista is IT R&D.
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Where "IT R&D" = downloading of teh pr0nz while reading the emails of everyone not in IT R&D.
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That reminds me, your fleshlight is on its way, the tracking number is 1Z2892984215. And Steve in accounting is sending dirty pics of himself to Gary in HR.
 
Originally posted by: loup garou
That reminds me, your fleshlight is on its way, the tracking number is 1Z2892984215. And Steve in accounting is sending dirty pics of himself to Gary in HR.
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Link to pics?
 
A good friend of mine bought Vista Home Advanced(IIRC)yesterday to install on his "Vista ready" XPS. First problem, Vista couldn't install to his SATA drive(WTF?). Second problem, none of his Multiplayer games would work(BF2, Freelancer, BF1942). Today he's wiping his HD, re-installing XP, and putting Vista on the shelf to wait 6 months(or whenever the issues get fixed).
 
Originally posted by: sandorski
A good friend of mine bought Vista Home Advanced(IIRC)yesterday to install on his "Vista ready" XPS. First problem, Vista couldn't install to his SATA drive(WTF?). Second problem, none of his Multiplayer games would work(BF2, Freelancer, BF1942). Today he's wiping his HD, re-installing XP, and putting Vista on the shelf to wait 6 months(or whenever the issues get fixed).
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He probably needs to have the SATA driver for his machine on a floppy or USB device to access during setup like XP does. I don't have any experience with Vista on SATA installs, but thats what it sounds like to me. Should be easily available with instructions on dell's website.
 
Nope, no issues at all.

Sadly (or happily in this case) my bassackwards organization is still mostly on W2KSP4, belive it or not. 😱

Out of 800+PCs, we've got roughly 10 WinXP machines...the rest are W2K. So...uh, no Vista issues.

They are deathly afraid of downtime (Scheduled preventive maintenance? WTF is that? :roll: ) so there's no way we could upgrade all the workstations. They get upgraded to XP as the HDs die. Talk about "not smart." It won't be long before MS no longer supports W2K.

Glad I'm "just" a SysAdmin and not responsible for what happens due to upper mgmt not being intelligent/listening to my boss and I about UPGRADING the whole damn network.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Nope, no issues at all.

Sadly (or happily in this case) my bassackwards organization is still mostly on W2KSP4, belive it or not. 😱

Out of 800+PCs, we've got roughly 10 WinXP machines...the rest are W2K. So...uh, no Vista issues.

They are deathly afraid of downtime (Scheduled preventive maintenance? WTF is that? :roll: ) so there's no way we could upgrade all the workstations. They get upgraded to XP as the HDs die. Talk about "not smart." It won't be long before MS no longer supports W2K.

Glad I'm "just" a SysAdmin and not responsible for what happens due to upper mgmt not being intelligent/listening to my boss and I about UPGRADING the whole damn network.
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The last of our Win2k machines were removed from service towards the end of last year. In fact, today I'm taking home one of our old Win2k servers to convert it to a home file server. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Nope, no issues at all.

Sadly (or happily in this case) my bassackwards organization is still mostly on W2KSP4, belive it or not. 😱

Out of 800+PCs, we've got roughly 10 WinXP machines...the rest are W2K. So...uh, no Vista issues.

They are deathly afraid of downtime (Scheduled preventive maintenance? WTF is that? :roll: ) so there's no way we could upgrade all the workstations. They get upgraded to XP as the HDs die. Talk about "not smart." It won't be long before MS no longer supports W2K.

Glad I'm "just" a SysAdmin and not responsible for what happens due to upper mgmt not being intelligent/listening to my boss and I about UPGRADING the whole damn network.
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The last of our Win2k machines were removed from service towards the end of last year. In fact, today I'm taking home one of our old Win2k servers to convert it to a home file server. 🙂
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Oooooooh. You get to take home old gear? I wish I could do that. I'd have a Crack Farm from hell. :evil:

As our old equipment dies (lately in flames...literally) they buy really nice new stuff (SAS-equipped servers, dual-dual-core Xeons, etc) but the old stuff is OOOOOOLLLD.

Dual PII, 1GB ram Compaq ML370 anyone? :Q When it dies, we have to turn it into the supply office for...whatever they do with it. I think they steal it. Sh~t...I want to steal it and fix the damn thing! 😉
 
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