Craig Forster, Senior Premier Field Engineer, dives into Windows 8.1: • Start Menu and Search • Connectivity changes and features • Security features • Windows To Go • Management and Sideloading • Remote Desktop Services

3. Windows 8.1 for IT Pros
•
Start Menu and Search
• Connectivity changes and
features
• Security features
•
Windows To Go
• Management and
Sideloading
• Remote Desktop Services
Where to next?

4. Start Menu and Search

6. •
Make “All Apps” view the
default
…and set Windows Store apps to:
• appear first,
• or appear last
•
Control Start menu layout
•
•
•
Assigned Access
Windows key + X
Bing integrated Search
• Controlled by GPOs

7. Demo
1.
2.
3.
4.
Customising the start screen
Enforced Start screen layout
Assigned Access
Windows + X

11. Connectivity changes
and features

12. •
Native 3G/4G support
•
• Web Application Proxy
with tethering
•
•
3rd party VPN support in-box
Windows Store apps can
auto-start VPN connections
Workplace Join
•
Work Folders
• Selective Wipe over EAS or
EAS+OMA-DM

24. Security features

25. • Native biometrics
• Virtual Smart Cards
• TPM Key Attestation

27. non-exportability
isolated crypto
anti-hammering

28. • 2FA for local and remote access
• 10,000 people are enrolled on
• Client authentication/mutual auth SSL
Surfaces, 81K on x86 machines
• VSC redirection for remote
• VSC on Surfaces enables VPN
connections
and Remote Apps access
• S/MIME email encryption
• MS Policy requires users to:
• request Manager Approval or
• BitLocker keys for data volumes
• Removable drives can only be used on the original
machine
• use Physical Smart Card to
provide the same level of
assurance as Physical Smart Card

30. Windows To Go

37. Management
and Sideloading

38. Management
•
•
•
Windows Embedded
Auto-updating of Modern Apps
User Experience Virtualisation
(UE-V 2)
Sideloading
•
•
•
•
SCCM Application Catalog
Company Portal
Windows InTune
Mobile Device Management
(MDM)

39. Thin Client
Digital Signage
Kiosk
Medical Devices
Manufacturing
POS
ATM
Industry Tablet

44. Register Apps for the user
Always in per-user context
Enterprise Sideloading requirements
Does not require administrative rights
Installation
Sideloading or from the Windows Store
Register application on the computer
Installs automatically for each user
Requires administrative rights
Provisioning
Only Sideloading, no Windows Store

45. Delivering Windows 8 Apps
Download from Windows Store
Sideloading from Your Infrastructure
Self-Service
Portal (SSP)
Management
Infrastructure Cloud
Windows RT Devices
Custom LOB Apps
Public Apps
Windows 8 (x86)

50. Remote Desktop Services

51. •
•
Shadowing is BACK, adds:
•
•
•
•
VDI
Multi-mon and RemoteApp sessions
Mstsc.exe integration
Server Manager integration
•
SOFS Deduplication for VDI
•
Pluggable Authentication (2FA) in
Gateway
Storage Tiering in CSVs

52. Dynamically
Add/Remove
monitors
Improved
RemoteApp
behaviour
Quick
Reconnec
t
DX11.1 support and
H.264 performance

53. WC305
Enhance users mobile productivity with Windows 8.1
DA305
Ekstern adgang i Windows Server 2012 R2 – nye muligheder for BYOD med WAP, Workplace Join og
Work Folders
WC301
How Microsoft IT Deployed Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Preview to the Enterprise
WC309
Microsoft VDI in 2013: VDI quantum leap with Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2!
DE301
What’s new in Windows 8.1 for developers
WC302
Application Management using System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1/R2

54. 1919

56. Thank you!
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