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Windows 8 went RTM on August 1st, 2012 and was released for general availability on October 26th, 2012. It contains many new features and changes, the most noticeable being a new graphical user interface, know as Modern UI. It is available in four major editions, Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Enterprise, and Windows 8 RT.

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Windows 8 went RTM on August 1st, 2012 and was released for general availability on October 26th, 2012. It contained many new features and changes, the most noticeable being a new graphical user interface know as Modern UI. It is available in four major editions, Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Enterprise, and Windows 8 RT.

Aside from the new Modern UI, some other notable new features and enhancements included:

  • Support for ARM processors (low power processors found in many mobile devices)
  • Native support for USB 3.0
  • Support for, and in some cases, mandatory inclusion of UEFI SecureBoot
  • New versions of existing Microsft products, including PowerShell v3.0, Internet Explorer 10, Windows Defender, and a redesigned Task Manager
  • A Windows Store for purchasing Windows 8 applications
  • New authentication methods, including local logon with a Windows Live account, picture based password and login via PIN
  • Two new boot options: Hybrid Boot and Windows To Go
  • Client Hyper-V

Minimum hardware requirements for the x86 and x64 of Windows 8 are:

  • 1 GHz processor (with support for PAE, NX SSE2)
  • 1 GB RAM (2GB for x64 versions)
  • A graphics card capable of DirectX 9 and WDDM 1.0
  • 20 GB of disk space
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Windows port forwarding, local machine to server

I'm working on Windows 8. I'm trying to connect to an OpenStack cloud which is hosted on a remote server but has a public IP to the API. However, making API calls require calls to additional services inside the cloud which still have the internal…
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Workstations hang on "Change Password" after expired Password

For one of our customers we have configered a maximum password age of 90 days. If those 90 days are over, the users are forced on logon to change their password. This worked fine for the past 9 months, but since today we have massiv problems. The…
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How do I correctly install windows 8 group policy on a 2008 server?

I'm currently working on a customer server that is running Windows Server 2008 R2. They are in the process of upgrading their machines to Windows 8. The problem they have is they don't want all the extra tiles on the metro screen, so I've exported…
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Windows 7/8 Strongswan IKEv2 Wrong Gateway

I have setup Strongswan on Ubuntu 14.04 from the official package. I use IKEv2 with PKI authentication and a custom authorization plugin. This works great for Android and Ubuntu clients using strongswan but not when using the Native Windows 7/8…
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Windows 8 inbound IPsec authentication failing?

I am getting some very strange behavior out of the Windows 8 Advanced Firewall / IPsec implementation. It appears now that all inbound traffic that isn't return traffic from a previously contacted host is being dropped. Why? Background: I'm…
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Can I use Windows 8 clients with a Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controller?

I'm sure I can, but are there any incompatibilities or problems to be aware of? We have a domain controller with a few Windows 7 clients already. It is working fine. I had the idea to install Windows 8 on a client and use it in the domain. One of my…
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Managing Windows 8 Start Screen Tiles

Using DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) it is possible to customize the initial Windows 8 Start Screen, although not in any satisfactory way. Is there an effective way to manage the Start Screen of a deployed Windows 8 system,…
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Activate Windows 8 with Server 2008 R2 KMS Host

I have a KMS host running Server 2008 R2 sp1. I have licenses and a KMS host key for Windows 8. I would like to use my existing server to activate these licenses. I've successfully applied the update referred to at this link and restarted the…
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Bridging Hyper-V virtual network and physical network kills physical network connection

I've added a VM in Hyper-V on Windows 8 Pro and created a Virtual Switch. The Virtual Switch is set to "Internal network". On the host machine, I go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Adapter Settings and bridge the newly created…
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sql server trusted connection with windows 8 microsoft account

We have a few developers that work, connecting in through a VPN for access to the development SQL Server 2012. Historically they've used Win7 machines and develop the website against this database in Visual Studio, using the built-in webserver for…
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unlock-bde application not found error prevalent in Windows 8

I have encrypted a drive with BitLocker in Windows 8 Pro, but the drive will not auto-unlock. I can manually unlock the drive from BitLocker in the Control Panel. However from Windows Explorer, I keep seeing the "unlock-bde" command that reports…
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Win 8 - how to prepare an image so it does not run through setup?

I am preparing a Win8 image to use as base for automatic deployments in Hyper-V at the moment. It seems that whenever a sysprepped image starts, it is running through the whole setup routine - which is bad, as it means setting up a setup user…
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Windows 8 - no internet connetction to some hosts while VPN is active

I use VPN to access the servers at work. When VPN is used, all network traffic to the Internet passes through my company network. It worked without any problems on Windows 7, now on Windows 8 some sites suddenly became inaccessible. Please note - I…
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Windows 8 and SMB2 Issues

We're playing with the consumer preview of Windows 8 and having issues accessing some network shares in our environment. Basically, when I attempt to access a share directly (\[SERVER].[DOMAIN].[NETWORK]\Share$) I get 'An extended error has…
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ms17-010 is not showing in WSUS (WannaCry Ransomware)

I am trying to push update MS17-010 in my environment but unfortunatly it is not showing in WSUS. I am targeting it for Win 7 devices. Win 7 is selected in product category but this update is not showing. Please advise what kind of category needs to…
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