Monday, July 15, 2013

Windows 8.1 Preview Download

The Windows 8.1 Preview is now available for download.

Check this link to download the preview.

Windows 8.1 will have a Start Button and many other features like:

- booting directly to Desktop
- Open MDM
- Offline SkyDrive
- and more

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Group Policy / Administrative Template files for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in a Windows 2008 Domain

To get the new features in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 for a Windows 2008 domain you have to do the following steps:

- Donwload the complete set of Administrative Template files for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.

- Install the downloaded MSI on a computer

- On the computer copy the folder "PolicyDefinitions" located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Group Policy\Windows Server 2012\" to "\\YourDomain\SYSVOL\YourDomain\Policies"

- If you have more than one DC the folder will be replicated depending on your schedule interval in Site and Services

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Huge collection of Free Microsoft eBooks

Microsoft published a collection of Free MS eBooks with the following topics:

Office & Office 365
SharePoint
SQL Server
System Center
Visual Studio
Web Development
Windows
Windows Azure
Windows Server

For more information check this blog post on msdn.

[ Huge collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: Office, Office 365, SharePoint, SQL Server, System Center, Visual Studio, Web Development, Windows, Windows Azure, and Windows Server - Microsoft Sales Excellence Manager - Eric Ligman]
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