Build Conference Highlights: How Windows 8 Metro is Revolutionary
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The document summarizes highlights from the BUILD Conference about how Windows 8 and the Metro interface are revolutionary. Key points include that Windows 8 is focused on touch interfaces and tablets, introduces a new Metro style app platform, and will leverage the cloud for settings syncing and content storage. The conference also showed how Windows 8 will impact developers through a restricted API and new app model, and how it will affect enterprise IT and leverage Windows Azure.
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Build Conference Highlights: How Windows 8 Metro is Revolutionary
- 1. BUILD Conference Highlights: How Windows 8 / Metro is Revolutionary Perficient, Inc.
- 2. About Perficient Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout North America. We help clients implement business-driven technology solutions that integrate business processes, improve worker productivity, increase customer loyalty and create a more agile enterprise to better respond to new business opportunities.
- 3. Who am I? Chris Woodruff Lead Tech Consultant Microsoft MVP Podcaster Blogger
- 4. Disclaimer The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by me and provided comments are mine alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of Perficient, Microsoft or any employee thereof. Perficient and Microsoft make no representations as to accuracy, completeness, currentness, suitability, or validity of any information in this webinar and will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use.
- 5. Windows 8 What happened to my Windows?
- 7. Windows 8 is Touch
- 8. Keys of Windows 8 Consumer Focused Touch is even with Keyboard and Mouse Affordable Tablets Hybrid PC’s New ways to show information Empowering consumers and employees You still have the current Desktop so don’t panic
- 10. What is the Metro UI Style?
- 11. Windows 8 Apps Reimagined
- 12. 8 Traits of a Metro Style App Metro style design Fast and Fluid Snap and Scale Contracts Live Tiles Feel Connected Roam the Cloud Embrace Metro Principles
- 13. Live Tiles
- 14. Windows 8 Apps Demo
- 15. Trial Periods Not Just Windows 8 Metro Apps Certified Apps Similar to Apple App Store Private App Stores for Internal Business Apps How we will sell and distribute software Windows Store
- 16. Windows 8 will leverage Cloud Sync settings between Windows devices Ability to store content in the Cloud through SkyDrive User login will use Windows Live so only 1 password to keep track of Windows 8 apps will have native features that can use Azure/Cloud for better customer satisfaction.
- 17. Remember Windows 8 application have the same DNA as Windows Phone 7.5 apps
- 18. Where does the Enterprise fit into Windows 8?
- 19. What is the Windows RunTime?
- 20. What was shown at BUILD
- 21. Simple View of Windows 8 Borrowed from Shawn Wildermuth’s Blog
- 22. Key Windows 8 Features for Developers to Know Highly biased toward touch interface Can’t use the Windows API; must use WinRT Restricted API — no local file or database access Subset of .Net 4.5 libraries available No shared user libraries; each app is an island unto itself No interappcomm, except through “contracts” No GDI; can only get to the screen thru DirectX No plug-ins for Metro IE — no Flash, no Silverlight Differences between ARM and Intel unknown
- 23. Biggest Feature for Windows 8 Developers -- Contracts Your apps will connect customers to the people and apps they care about Customers will easily share content from your app through other apps installed in Windows 8 The Share landscape is networked The more apps, the more sharing opportunities
- 24. Windows 8 Server
- 25. Windows Server 8 Key Features NIC Teaming Live Migration Active Directory Recycle Bin Intellisense PowerShell Domain Controller Replication Cluster Aware Updating Storage across Remote SMB 2.2 File Shares Flexible Deployment Hyper-V Network Switch
- 26. Windows Server 8 Dashboard
- 27. What does this all mean to me?
- 28. Thursday October 6 @ 1:00PM EST Microsoft //BUILD Conference – How Windows 8 / Metro will Affect Enterprise IT, and How You Can Prepare Thursday October 13 @ 1:00PM EST Microsoft //BUILD Conference – How Windows 8 / Metro will Impact Developers Thursday October 20 @ 1:00PM EST Microsoft //BUILD Conference – How Windows 8 Will Leverage Windows Azure Next 3 Thursdays Future Webinars in Series Sign up at http://tinyurl.com/buildwebinars
- 29. Contact Me Email – chris.woodruff@perficient.com MSN IM – cwoodruff@live.com Blog – http://chriswoodruff.com Podcast – http://deepfriedbytes.com Skype – cwoodruff Twitter – cwoodruff Chris Woodruff
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- NIC Teaming: This is a much desired feature in datacenters: the ability to team multiple network adapters to aggregate bandwidth and provide failover. Previously, in order to deploy this feature in Windows Servers, sys admins had to rely on third-party vendors. For example, for fault tolerant NIC teaming, Microsoft had advised that network adapter vendors were the ones to go to for support. In Windows Server 2008 R2 NIC teaming is also achieved by installing the Microsoft Failover Cluster Virtual Adapter. However, based on demos Microsoft previewed, this is the first time Microsoft offers in-the-box NIC teaming of up to 32 NICs (theoretically) with no dependency on the type of network cards installed. Live Migration: Windows Server 8's Hyper-V VM Mobility migrates virtual machines between hosts within a datacenter or on separate networks. Migrations happen with no downtime and no disruption of connected clients. Sys admins can perform migrations without having to implement clustering or without any shared infrastructure. AD Recycle Bin: The Active Directory Recycle Bin is a new GUI add-on with the Active Directory Administrative Center. With it, admins can view and restore any deleted AD objects. Objects can be restored to their original location or to a new container. Although the ability to restored deleted AD objects is not a new capability, it was done in 2008 R2 with scripting. Now, admins can quickly get accidently deleted items restored with the AD Recycle Bin. Intellisense Powershell: Microsoft is advocating sys admins using PowerShell to manage Windows environments. A few advantages include the ability to manage remotely, and being able to manage tasks at a very granular level—more so that with the GUI. Plus, scripting allows admins to perform batch runs and schedule tasks. The problem is there are sys admins who are unfamiliar with PowerShell. Microsoft has incorporated Intellisense in PowerShell, which auto fills-in appropriate command line syntax as admins type, taking a lot of the guess work out of what appropriate PowerShell syntax should be. DC replication: Windows Server 8 allows for fast deployment of Domain Controllers (DC) with virtual DC cloning. You can create replicas of DCs by cloning an existing one. DC can also be physical or virtual. DC replication is a great disaster recovery option—you can quickly recover an entire forest. A new option, "Allow this DC to create a clone," makes a machine replicable. Admins can also run a PowerShell cmdlet to check if there are any unrecognized services running on a DC that cannot be cloned. Cluster Aware Updating: Another feature implemented due to customer demand, Cluster Aware Updating (CAU), provides much management relief for system admins. Previously, when performing Windows updates on clustered machines, all or some of those machines typically had to be taken offline. Updating clusters involved much planning and possible scheduled downtime. Windows Server 8 updating tools now feature cluster-awareness. CAU updates all nodes in a cluster in an automated way with no downtime of machines in the cluster.Claim Definitions: Claim definitions are used in Windows Server 8 for controlling access and auditing information. With this feature, files can be identified to have sensitive information—for example, documents that contain the word "confidential" or have social security numbers. Admins can use Group Policy and Active Directory to setup the users who should or should not have access to these sensitive files. Storage across Remote SMB 2.2 File Shares: In Windows Server 8 access to shared storage is done by accessing file shares. The latest Windows OS does not employ logical unit numbers (LUNs) to identify logical units in a storage system. By using shared storage across SMB 2.3, admins have easier provisioning and management of shared storage by using regular file shares. This means you can have sophisticated shared storage of data from a variety of file servers—client files, VMs, databases—without a storage guru. Hyper-V Network Switch: Hyper-V now has a virtual switch that handles traffic between VMs, the external network, and the host machines. It's more than that, though. It's extensible, which means extensions and solutions can (and very likely, will) be created to offer extra Hyper-V functionality, such as content security and filtering, customized management interfaces, traffic monitoring, and more. Flexible Deployment: With Windows Server 2008, admins had the option to install a full version of the OS, or a more lightweight core version. Once you chose one install mode, you had to do a complete reinstall to get the server into another mode. Not so with Windows Server 8. Install modes can switch from full, to core, to full server without parts of the graphical shell. You can move back and forth between these modes without having to do a reinstall of the OS. This is ideal if, for example, the server is in core mode but you need the full GUI to install a third-party application.