windows 8 - technical overview

Windows 8

Alan Richards

Index slide title

1 Who am I

2 Who is Foundation-SP

3 Deploying Windows 8

4 App Locker

5 Windows To Go

6 Storage Spaces

7 Networking & Task Manager

8 Questions

Introductions

Who am I

Alan Richards

Senior Consultant

Alan.Richards@foundation-sp.com

http://www.foundation-sp.com

http://www.edutechnow.com

http://www.twitter.com/arichards_Saruk

http://uk.LinkedIn.com/in/RichardsAlan

Introducing Foundation SP

Technology

Capabilities

Solutions Strategy

People

Deploying Windows 8

Deploying Windows 8

• As easy as Windows 7

• Windows Assessment & Deployment toolkit

• Application Compatibility Toolkit

• Deployment Tools

• User State Migration Tool

• Volume Activation Management Tool

• MDT 2012

• Deploy clean image

• Capture reference computers

• Deploy apps

• Script driven

• Systems Center 2012

• Full management from bare metal upwards

AppLocker

App Locker

• Apps at your fingertips• Mail

• Camera

• Photos

• Games

• Group Policy Management• Run on Windows 8 PC

• Lists all apps installed

• Block per user | group | globally

Windows To Go

Windows To Go

• Boot and run Windows 8 from a flash drive

• Uses the host machines hardware

• All applications, security & AV assigned to the corporate image are assigned to the Windows To Go system

• Local C: drive is hidden

• My Computer = USB Flash Drive

Storage Spaces

Storage Spaces

• New management of attached drives• USB

• SAS

• SATA

• Group drives to create a single storage space

• Resiliency options• Mirroring

• Parity

• Thin provisioning• Allocate space to a volume without having the physical space

• Prompted to add more storage once you get near physical space

Networking & Task Manager

Networking & Task Manager

• Network metering• Set limits for connection type

• NIC teaming

• Improved connection manager• Allowing profiles to be assigned to users to easily connect to remote networks

• Improved Task Manager• Simple view

• Detailed views

Questions