I am moving to Vista. Reluctantly at first, but I've found this operating system to be quite feature rich and powerful; and so far I see no reason why to uninstall it (6 weeks and counting). It was probably the exposure to the volume of apple commercials that convinced me that Microsoft and Vista were the plague -- and as a developer I should do everything to avoid it. With that said, I've dev'd primarily on my XP instance in the past, and one of the tools that I need on occasion is the handy remote desktops application available only in the Windows Server 2003 Administrator Tools Pack add-on (as an separate download).

I now needed a Vista version; and in my conversations with a colleague, I was told this tool pack was only available for Windows Server 2003 and XP, not Vista.

Sprung into action, I performed a few google searches and found out Microsoft does indeed address this for Vista customers. But only if you've have Service pack 1 installed. "RSAT" as they call it, is available in both 32 and 64 bit versions.

The direct link to the Microsoft KB article (and downloads) is here.

The directions to expose this in your Vista instance (after you've downloaded the right copy) is here.