Vista Release meeting

October 26, 2006

Attendees:

Jonathan Hunt, Alex Kozlov, Richard Edelson, Michael Bryan, Fred Baars, Esther Yanow, Monique Yeaton, Tyrese L. White

Agenda for the meeting:

- Updates on Microsoft meeting last Friday

- Vista upgrade scenarios

- Licensing and distribution

- Preparing for Vista support

- Preparing documentation

Action Items:

Jonathan provided an update on last Friday meeting with Microsoft:

- MIT will get an Enterprise version of Vista via Campus License Agreement; Enterprise version has virtualization component but no Media Center; Microsoft recommends to buy this component via Student Select Licensing on Govconnection;

- Media center has DVD-codec and remote control TV connect components

- There are potential issues with mandatory activation via Internet, key recovery for BitLocker

- MIT can get access to on-line learning , part of Microsoft e-learning library, via Campus Agreement Software assurance; Richard will follow up with Microsoft on how to get access

- Encryption of setup code for installation keys has to be tested once we get RTM version of Vista; Richard will take a lead on this

- MIT will get Office 2007 Enterprise (not Professional) being shipped on the same date with Vista; Office has potential backward compatibility issues with xml formats and new apps;

- Documentation team will work on setup instructions for Windows Mail

- Testers should test Windows Mail component of Vista; Alex can provide test mail accounts

- Esther is working on documentation for Vista and provided a list of items and questions to work on

- Certificate generation is still an issue; Quing is working with Microsoft to resolve it