Microsoft QLF00195, GLC00182 manual Top Features for IT Professionals, Key Feature, What You Can Do

Top Features for IT Professionals

From networking to security and search to user management, Windows 7 offers IT professionals a wide range of new and improved features. These include the following:

Key Feature	What You Can Do
AppLocker	Control which applications are allowed to run on user PCs.
BranchCache	Improve application responsiveness and end user productivity
	at branch offi ces while reducing the load on your Wide Area
	Network (WAN).
DirectAccess	Enable workers to more securely connect to corporate
	networks over any Internet connection—without requiring the
	extra step of initiating a VPN connection.
Federated Search and Enterprise	Enable search engines, document repositories, Web appli-
Search Scopes	cations, and proprietary data stores to be searched from
	Windows 7, without writing and deploying client code.
Problem Steps Recorder	Help your workers troubleshoot application failures by giving
	them the ability to reproduce and record their experiences and
	then send that information to support staff.
VHD Boot	Ease the transition between virtual and physical environments
	by reusing the same master image within a VDI infrastructure
	and on physical PCs.
Windows PowerShell 2.0™	Automate repetitive tasks with this graphical scripting editor that
	helps you write scripts that access underlying technologies.