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The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Solution Accelerator is an inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that will find computers on a network and determine if they are ready to run the Windows Vista™ operating system or the 2007 Microsoft Office System.
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Feature Overview
Secure and Agentless Inventory
Comprehensive Hardware and Device Compatibility Analysis
In-Depth Readiness Reporting
Feature Overview
The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Solution Accelerator performs three key functions, including hardware inventory, compatibility analysis, and readiness reporting.
Figure 1. Three Key Functions
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Secure and Agentless Inventory
The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Solution Accelerator provides secure, agentless inventory for up to 25,000 computers. It collects and organizes system resource and device information, network wide and remotely, from a single networked computer. Assessment tools often require users to first deploy software agents on all computers to be inventoried. The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment does not require the deployment of any software agents on the individual computers.
The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Wizard can inventory and scan computers on a network that are running an operating system that supports Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). This includes the following operating systems:
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Windows Vista (already migrated)
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Windows XP® Professional (SP2)
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Windows Server 2003™ or Windows Server 2003 R2.
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Windows 2000 Professional or Windows 2000 Server
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All data is securely encrypted between the computer being inventoried and the computer running this tool.
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Comprehensive Hardware and Device Compatibility Analysis
The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment provides detailed analysis on hardware and device compatibility for Windows Vista. The tool also provides the option to check for updates to the compatibility data.
The analysis identifies which computers are already ready for Windows Vista migration and identifies the computers that could be ready for migration to Windows Vista after hardware upgrades. The tool identifies and recommends hardware upgrades, but does not recommend costly hardware upgrades, such as CPU upgrades.
The analysis also determines which hardware devices have device drivers available on the Windows Vista installation DVD, which hardware drivers can be downloaded from Windows Update, and devices which require contacting the manufacturer to obtain a device driver.
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In-Depth Readiness Reporting
The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Wizard generates custom reports containing both high-level and detailed assessment results. The results are provided in the following documents:
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A Microsoft® Excel® workbook containing spreadsheets that provide detailed results of the inventory and assessment. The information in this report provides a level of detail typically needed by an IT implementer.
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A Microsoft Word document that summarizes the results of the inventory and assessment for all computers that are currently running a Microsoft Windows® client operating system. The summary report provides information typically needed by a business decision maker.