Re: Vista Home Premium on SBS2003?

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not having a 'home' Vista easily at hand I _believe_ the upgrade to a 'business' grade license can be performed from Vista Home itself.

I seem to remember that 'home' can go to either 'business' or 'ultimate' but that 'home premium' can only go to 'ultimate' (online, at least). Something to do with Media Center, I think.

For business workstations I prefer 'Vista Business', suggesting that the added capabilities of 'ultimate' have little place in the workplace. Of course, I'm typing this up on my Ultimate (x64) workstation, because I'm special :-). (I don't think any of the Ultimate components are actually configured. I know the TV tuner hasn't been connected to an aerial, despite it laying about 3" away from the card's input)

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"Coffee&Chocolate" <CoffeeChocolate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:558538CA-C981-4D02-9E11-8329A72F9ED1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the answers. Is the upgrade process from Home Premium to Ultimate
trouble free? And if so what is the cost? Also would Ultimate or Business be
the better selection?

"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:

that is a process known as Pass Through Authentication and most abbreviate
it to PiTA due to it semblence to the other use of PITA.

The long term cost of running a 'home' OS as a client to an AD (any AD, it's
nothing specifically SBS) is far greater than the cost to upgrade now.

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"Nick_CHIPS" <NickCHIPS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:08DAA3C5-3462-45E7-8768-8CD8783A02DE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To have Home Operating Systems connect to shares on a server network
> seamlessly ensure that the user name and password on the Home OS > matches a
> user and password on the server domain.
>
> As long as the user and pass match - that computer should have access > to
> all
> shares that the user account has permission for
>
>
>
> "Coffee&Chocolate" wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>> We are currently running SBS2003 SP2 standard (no ISA) with clients
>> running
>> Win2K SP4 and WinXP SP3 seamlessly- no issues. We have a system in >> house
>> that has Vista Home Premium that we would like to connect to the SBS
>> network
>> to share file resources (our order entry system etc). I have read
>> conflicting info as to whether this is possible or not. I do not want >> to
>> have to upgrade to Ultimate, we have already reached our budget cap >> for
>> technology and we are all aware of current economic conditions- we >> need
>> to
>> try to save pennies and work smarter. Is there anyway >> (workaround/manual
>> tweak etc) of getting this Vista unit on my SBS network? Any help or
>> hints
>> would be most apprectiated.
>> Thanks in advance



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