Vista Release meeting

November 9, 2006

Attendees:

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

Agenda for the meeting:

Agenda:

-Briefing on Microsoft Vista Presentation at Waltham

-Updates on latest test results for RC2

-Status of IE7 certificate generation under Vista

-Updates on documentation and training

-Communication plan

Action Items:

- Alex provided latest info on Vista based on last Tuesday meeting at Microsoft

-Team will switch gears on testing from RC2 mode to RTM version: verified previous test results for RC1 and RC2; what is the path to upgrade (clean vs upgrade); profile migration testing for both local and roaming profiles

-Evaluate set of tools for Vista upgrade

- Richard will follow up on licensing activation issue

- New Horizons training course will be evaluated by Jeff next week

-MIT CA customized installer will be farther developed and tested

-Issue with MIT CA in Office 2007 will be verified with the RTN version

-Decision on how distribute Vista to early adopter has to be made (is it for general distribution or not); communication for earlier adapter will be send out once it is decided; targeting January 30 for general distribution and distributed by sending DVDs to DLCs. Communication will be send to IT leads group on how to get RTM version.

-Free learning tools for Office 2007 are available from Microsoft on Microsoft.com/learning/office2007