On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > We are still running stricty XP for our DoD (NISPOM) stuff due to the lack > of support and knowledge on configuring Vista to be compliant..
Yah, I would have liked to stick with XP myself. The particular local jurisdiction these systems fall under hasn't even seen a Vista config before; we're the first to attempt. Oh boy, oh boy, fun fun fun. But other things made the decision for me: (1) Product lifecycle. XP goes EOL in 2014. Getting anything changed on these particular systems is an agonizingly slow process. Current effort has been going on for more than a year. I didn't want to have to start over on the "update to Vista" effort right away. (2) Application comparability. We couldn't get one of the apps to work under XP without granting the running account the "Full Control" permission to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. As HKCR is a critical area of the system, we can't just open it up to everybody. And the application is a one-of-a-kind thing that we can't get from someone else. Vista's FRV fixes this problem. > Goes with out saying, once we heard mention of Windows 7 we > were contemplating skipping Vista completely ... Yah, that's my plan for the corporate network. > Sorry I don't have any bright ideas at the moment, but thanks for the heads > up on this. I just hope it's not the same situation with Windows 7... Good point. I should check out the Win 7 trial for this and see how it behaves. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
