Indeed I have also posted to the Office group.
I will take a look at the other groups, but my main concern was about
any major issues I might cause to my original environment or to the domain -
while I assume there would be medium and minor
issues running some of the regular day to day operations on the X64 machine.

"Dave R." wrote:

>
> "Mike Brannigan" <Mike.Brannigan@localhost> wrote in message
> news:edJzty2THHA.4404@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > "JackFlash" <JackFlash@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:28F7F4A8-3AF1-4FC3-BB7A-E79E51A72BD6@microsoft.com...
> >> Hi Fellows,
> >>
> >> Can you please review those questions so we can consider deployment
> >> of Vista
> >> on the current infrastructure:
> >>
> >> 1. Can we then look into approving if there are no security or
> >> operational
> >> issues
> >> if I login my Vista / X64 machine to Win3K or Win2K domain ?
> >
> > No problems - Vista is fully supported (x86 or x64) in a 2003/2000
> > Active Directory environment
> >
> No problems is a bit optimistic. The OP would be well advised to look
> at the various posings in this and the .networking_sharing and .general
> groups relating to Remote Desktop, Remote Assistance, file and printer
> sharing, logon scripts, etc.
>
> As to the Office 2003, etc., I don't follow those closely at all, but it
> would be a good idea to check the Office and Outlook groups for any
> interoperability issues.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
>
>
>