Slide deck from the Birmingham Link2ICT network managers meeting. Details on deploying Windows 8 and Windows 8 technologies.

1. Windows 8
Alan Richards

2. 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

3. Introductions

4. 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

5. Introducing Foundation SP

6. Deploying Windows 8

7. 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

8. AppLocker

9. 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

10. Windows To Go

11. 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

12. Storage Spaces

13. 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

14. Networking & Task
Manager

15. 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

16. Questions