1. Windows 8
Enabling flexible
worksytles
Greg Milligan
National Technology Strategist – Education

2. Fast and fluid experience
Immersive, touch-enabled
Support for mouse & keyboard and pen
Maximize device hardware capabilities
Windows 7 desktop
New Windows apps
Experience without
compromise
Touch-friendly Radial Menu presents
commands in a circular arrangement
Use full device capabilities, such as the
camera, to create richer notes
Your new Office applications at your
fingertips from the new start screen
Personalized Start screen with Live tiles
always connected & up-to-date

3. Full
Packaged
Product (FPP)
OEM –
PC Preinstall
Volume
Licensing
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4. +
Rights are included with Software Assurance for Windows
Includes all features found within Windows 8 Pro
How to License
Run Windows 8 more
securely on a USB
stick from anywhere
On the Internet, on
the corporate
network, seamlessly
and more securely
Users in the branch
office can download
documents and apps
faster
Improved end-user
experience
Specify what software
is allowed to run on a
user's PCs
Sideloading enabled
for Windows 8 apps
Also included with the Windows VDA, Windows Intune, and Windows Companion Subscription License (CSL)
Enterprise edition use rights are perpetual for the licensed device even after SA coverage ends
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5. Robust Virtualization
Platform Flexibility of Choice Improvement in Efficiency
* Windows 8 Pro required

6. Faster
More capable

7. Secure Boot
Measured Boot
Detects and deters malware
before the OS starts

8. Apps from the Windows Store Internal line of business apps

9. Side Load from Your InfrastructureDownload from Windows Store
Windows RT
Windows 8 (x86)
Public Apps
Management
Infrastructure Cloud
Custom LOB Apps
App Delivery

10.  MAP is an ideal
assessment and
planning tool for the
following:
 Discovery of computers and
applications
 Hardware and software
readiness migration
 Capacity planning for
server, desktop and
virtualization projects
 Public and Private Cloud
capacity and migration
planning
 Software usage tracking
Microsoft Assessment and
Planning Toolkit 8

11. Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)
for Windows 8

12.  Common
Compatibility Issues:
 User Account Control (UAC)
 Windows Resource
Protection (WRP)
 Internet Explorer Protected
Mode
 Deprecation
 Graphical Identification and
Authentication (GINA) DLL
 Session 0
 Windows Filtering Platform
(WFP)
 Operating System Version
Changes
 Windows 64-bit
Application Compatibility Toolkit 6.0

13. MDT 2012 U1 System Center
2012
Configuration
Manager SP1
Windows
Server 2012
Zero Touch
Installation
(ZTI)
 ZTI – Zero Touch Installation
 Combines the MDT database, OSD and WDS
into a fully automated deployment solution
 Requires Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012
U1 integrated with Configuration Manager
infrastructure
 Can be used for Image Deployment process
 Provides application, hardware and security
lifecycle after deployment
 Includes MDT Database for role, location,
computer and hardware-based configurations
Deployment Approach – ZTI

14. VOLUME ACTIVATION

15. Activation Methods
 Key Management Service (KMS)
• A server-client model in which a computer serves as the KMS host
• A KMS host key must be installed and activated
• This establishes a local activation service in your environment
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 Multiple Activation Key (MAK)
• If you use a MAK key, Office client computers are activated online by
using the Microsoft hosted activation servers or by telephone
 Active Directory-Based activation
• Automatically activates domain-joined Windows 8 clients
• Only uses LDAP queries, not RPC for activation
• Requires Server 2012 AD schema
• Windows 8 clients only

16. Activation Illustration
 Windows 8 clients can use Active Directory- based
activation or KMS
 Windows 7 must use KMS or MAK
 Disconnected machines should use MAK activation
 Consider VAMT 3.0

17.  Key SCM Features:
 Baselines based on
Microsoft security guide
recommendations and
industry best practices
 Centralized security
baseline management
features
 Gold master support
(reference machine)
 Stand-alone machine
configuration
 Updated security guides
 Comparisons against
industry best practices
Microsoft
Security Compliance Manager 3.0

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21. Virtualization
Hyper-V host scale and scale-up workload support
System Resource
MAXIMUM NUMBER Improvement
factorWindows 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012
Host Logical processors on
hardware
64 320 5×
Physical memory 1 TB 4 TB 4×
Virtual processors per host 512 2,048 4×
Virtual
machine
Virtual processors per virtual
machine
4 64 16×
Memory per virtual machine 64 GB 1 TB 16×
Active virtual machines 384 1,024 2.7×
Cluster Nodes 16 64 4×
Virtual machines 1,000 4,000 4×

22. Improvements
• Faster and simultaneous migration
• Live migration outside a clustered
environment
• Store virtual machines on a File Share
VM VM
Live migration setup
SMB network storage
IP connection
Configuration data
Memory pages transferred
Memory content
MEMORYMEMORY
Modified pages transferred
Modified memory pages
Storage handle moved
VIRTUAL MACHINE
MOBILITY
Live migration based on server
message block (SMB) share
VM

23. Computer
running
Hyper-V
Target deviceSource device
VIRTUAL MACHINE
MOBILITY
Benefits
• Manage storage in a cloud environment
with greater flexibility and control
• Move storage with no downtime
• Update physical storage available to a
virtual machine (such as SMB-based
storage)
• Windows PowerShell cmdlets
Live migration of storage
Move virtual hard disks attached
to a running virtual machine
Reads and writes go to the source VHD
Disk contents are copied to new
destination VHD
Disk writes are mirrored; outstanding
changes are replicated
Reads and writes go to new
destination VHD
Virtual machine

24. Destination
Hyper-V
Virtual
machine
Target deviceSource device
Virtual
machine
Source
Hyper-V
IP connection
Configuration dataMemory contentModified memory pages
VIRTUAL MACHINE
MOBILITY
Benefits
• Increase flexibility of virtual machine
placement
• Increase administrator efficiency
• Reduce downtime for migrations across
cluster boundaries
Shared-nothing live migration
Reads and writes go to the
source VHD
Reads and writes go to the
source VHD. Live Migration Begins
Disk contents are copied to new
destination VHD
Disk writes are mirrored;
outstanding changes are replicated
Live Migration
MEMORYMEMORY
Live Migration ContinuesLive Migration Completes

25. Benefits
• Affordable in-box business continuity and
disaster recovery
• Failure recovery in minutes
• More secure replication across network
• No need for storage arrays
• No need for other software replication
technologies
• Automatic handling of live migration
• Simpler configuration and management
New feature
Replicate Hyper-V virtual machines from a
primary site to a replica site
VIRTUAL MACHINE
MOBILITY
Hyper-V role and tools
Hyper-V
cmdlets
Hyper-V PS
integrated UI
Hyper-V Management Module
tracks and replicates changes for
each virtual machine
Hyper-V role and tools
Hyper-V
cmdlets
Hyper-V PS
integrated UI
Hyper-V Management Module
receives and applies the changes to
the replica virtual machine
Primary site
CRM virtual machine
SQL virtual machine
SharePoint virtual
machine
Exchange virtual machine
IIS virtual machine Exchange
replica
virtual
machine
CRM
replica
virtual
machine
Replicate over
WAN link
SMB file share
Send/receive
replica traffic
SAN
R1
R2
R3
P1 P2
Replica site

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• Windows PowerShell Workflow
• .NET Framework 4 support
• Add-Member improvements
• Computer cmdlets
• CSV handling improvements
• Get-ChildItem attributes
• Get-Command improvements
• Default parameter values
• Better history support
• Security cmdlet fixes
• Select-Object optimizations
• Select-String improvements
• Tee-Object -Append
• Disconnected sessions
• Idle timeout & server buffering control
• Invoke-Command in disconnected sessions
• Disconnected jobs
• STA mode by default
• Run with PowerShell context menu
• Module autoloading
• Console host start perf improvements
• ETW logging and tracing
• Core CIM cmdlets
• New Group Policy settings
• Output redirection for all streams
• Array member enumeration
• Word wrap in console host
• Default properties on custom objects
• Updatable help system
• Method overload discovery
• HelpUri attribute support
• HelpFile property on FunctionInfo
• Simplified Where and ForEach
• Remoting local variables via $using
• Dynamic types & formats
• Get-Content -Tail
• Generic method invocation
• Typecasting deserialized objects
• New parser built on DLR
• Improved method overload selection
• New objects from hash tables
• Typecasting for parameter values
• Pipeline paging APIs
• Nested pipeline APIs
• $PSScriptRoot and $PSCommandPath
• Ordered hash tables
• Improved module discovery & import
• New module manifest keys
• Public abstract syntax tree
• Runspace pool cleanup API
• Public tab completion
• Windows RT API support
• Obsolete cmdlet attribute
• Command discovery improvements
• Script autosave support
• Out-GridView -PassThru
• CIM cmdlet authoring from WMI v2
• CIM .NET APIs
• Job scheduling
• Runtime script compilation
• Engine reliability improvements
• Better Get-ChildItem network performance
• Cmdlet definition files
• Certificate provider improvements
• Alternate NTFS data stream support
• Move-Item across drives
• Remote module discovery & import
• Credentials for FileSystem provider
• Remote session autodisconnect & retry
• Transport options for remote sessions
• Module logging
• Workflow persistence
• Job integration with Task Scheduler
• Alternate credential support for jobs
• Update console font & branding
• Verb & noun on FunctionInfo
• Special character handling
• LiteralPath support for core cmdlets
• DLR-based tab completion
• Session configuration files
• IntelliSense support
• Windows Management Framework 3.0
• Windows PE integration
• Windows RT support
• Windows PowerShell Web Access
• Management OData IIS Extension
• XAML-based workflows
• Script-based workflows
• Control Panel cmdlets
• Unblock-File cmdlet
• Workflow help
• Cmdlet to activity conversion
• RunAs and SharedHost support
• Improved WMI object formatting
• Heterogeneous object formatting
• Workflow logging
• Workflow extensibility
• Common workflow parameters
• Workflow execution environment
• Snippets
• ISE Add-ons
• $PSItem alias for $_
• Show-Command
• Get-Help -ShowWindow
• Restart Manager support
• Web & REST cmdlets
• JSON cmdlets
• XML syntax highlighting
• Block select
• Collapsible regions
• Contextual F1 support
• Script Explorer

27. • Syntax simplification: Windows
PowerShell 3.0 includes simplified,
consistent syntax across all cmdlets
• Simplified scripting through Windows
PowerShell ISE 3.0:
• Built-in code snippets include
templates for functions, parameters,
and statements
• Users do not need to remember the
syntax
Simplified Scripting
More intuitive
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ROBUST
AUTOMATION
Snippets add reusable text to scripts and commands

28. • Microsoft Script Explorer for
Windows PowerShell –
available on Download
Center
• Provides access to
community-generated
Windows PowerShell scripts
Script Sharing
More intuitive
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ROBUST
AUTOMATION

29. • Virtualization of storage with
Storage Pools and Storage
Spaces
• Storage resilience and
availability with commodity
hardware
• Resiliency and data
redundancy through
n-way mirroring (clustered or
unclustered) or parity mode
(unclustered)
• Utilization optimized through
thin and trim provisioning and
enclosure awareness
• Integration with other
Windows Server 2012
capabilities
• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
and Serial AT Attachment
(SATA) interconnects
Windows
Virtualized
Storage
Windows Application Server or File Server
Physical or
virtualized
deployments
Physical
Storage
(Shared) SAS or SATA
Integrated
with other
Windows
Server 2012
capabilities
Storage PoolStorage Pool
File Server Administration
Console
Hyper-V
Cluster Shared Volume
Failover Clustering
SMB Multichannel
NFS Windows Storage Mgmt.
NTFS SMB Direct
Storage Space Storage Space Storage Space
ENTERPRISE-CLASS
FEATURES ON LESS
EXPENSIVE HARDWARE

30. VHD Library
Software Deployment
Share
General File
Share
User Home Folder
(My Docs)
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Average savings with Data Deduplication by workload type
ENTERPRISE-CLASS
FEATURES ON LESS
EXPENSIVE HARDWARE
Maximize capacity by removing
duplicate data
• 2:1 with file shares, 20:1 with virtual
storage
• Less data to back up, archive, and
migrate
Increased scale and performance
• Low CPU and memory impact
• Configurable compression schedule
• Transparent to primary server workload
Improved reliability and integrity
• Redundant metadata and critical data
• Checksums and integrity checks
• Increase availability through redundancy
Faster file download times with
BranchCache
Source: “Microsoft Internal Testing"

31. Traditional virtual private networks
(VPNs) for compatibility
Connection originates
from mobile user on an
indeterminate schedule
Cannot originate
connection from intranet
Connection is not always established
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DIRECTACCESS
DirectAccess for automatic,
transparent connectivity
Connection is established at machine startup
time and user does not need to log on
Can originate connection
from intranet
Connection to
intranet is always active

33. Notes:
• Windows Server continues to require Client Access Licenses (CALs)
Standard
Low density or
no virtualization
Datacenter
High density
virtualization
Windows Server
2012 Standard
Microsoft System Center
2012 Standard
Windows Server
2012 Datacenter
Microsoft System Center
2012 Datacenter

34. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/solutionaccelerators/bb545941.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb467605.aspx
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/