Upgrade Advisor’s Big Brother

How to check a whole network of XP computers to see whether they can be upgraded to Vista.

The Vista Upgrade Advisor is useful for checking individual Windows XP computers to see whether their hardware configuration will support upgrading to Windows Vista, but what if you have hundreds of thousands of computers to check? For that, you need the Big Brother to Upgrade Advisor, the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Solution Accelerator. You can use the Hardware Assessment SA to an inventory, assess, and report which computers on your network are ready for upgrading Vista, and also whether they can support running the 2007 Microsoft Office System. You can get the Hardware Assessment SA from the Microsoft Download Center, and see here for a good explanation of how it works.

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