Windows 8 What’s The Fuzz All About

Olav Tvedt, MVP EDB Ergogroup Twitter: @olavtwitt Blog: olavtvedt.blogspot.com

WARRNING: It’s worse then a beta.

You will lose sleep and hair. And Everything might be a lie.

You have been warned

* ∼200 commandlets in Server 2008 R2 Vs. ∼ 2300 in Server 8)

Windows Server 8

Virtualization Changes VM Replication VM from file server Live Storage Migration VHDX format (up to 16TB) ODX (Offline Data Transfer) HW Improvements hosts

160 Logical Processors 1024 Virtual Processors 2 TB Memory 63 Nodes in a clusters 1024 Active Vms per host 4000 Active VMs per failover cluster

HW(?) improvements guests Up to 32 Cores per VM Up to 512 GB memory per VM

Cloud Backup

Windows Server 8

Storage Changes Faster and more reliable Disk De-Duplication ODX (Offline Data Transfer) Storage Spaces and Storage Pools Check Disk runs FAST Bitlocker on clusted disks

DirectAccess Support for non-IPv6 server resources Don’t require PKI

More About AD:

Webcast: Brian Desmond - What's new in Windows Server 8 Active Directory

More About Setup and Deployment:

Everything Johan Arwidmark included the session after this one

Windows Client 8

Security Bitlocker

Encrypt Only Used Disk Space TPM Pin Set By Users TPM Pin Change For Ordinary Users

Windows Defender Secure Boot

Windows To Go Boot from USB Complete installation (apps and everything you need)

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