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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 2003 under Hyper-V - can't send/receive ping

I've installed Windows 2003 x64 R2 SP2 under Hyper-V (the Windows Pro 8 edition). I have a NIC configured but I can't move any traffic on it. In particular I can't send or receive Pings. Scoreboard There is a second VM running Ubuntu under the…
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Printer GPO - [ hr = 0x80070706 "The print processor is unknown." ]

Having some trouble on Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8 getting a Printer GPP (computer) to work. Printer GPP is created in: Computer config -> Preferences -> Control panel -> Printers but fails with the error: [ hr = 0x80070706 "The print…
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Installing Managed DirectX 9 on Win8

As part of a project I'm involved in, we're installing DirectX9 (including managed DirectX) components as part of our installation software. Before installing the DirectX we're installing .NET4. When we moved to Win8 we started to see some issues…
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SBS 2011 WSUS Updates Failing on Windows 8 client with error 800B0001

We recently set up an SBS 2011 Standard SP1 domain and manage all optional updates from this server. Critical/Security updates are configured to automatically install without approval. WSUS is currently version 3.2.7600.226. We have three computers…
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Is there an internal Windows 8 app store for enterprise?

According to this MSDN article, Windows 8 apps can be installed through the Windows Store (users choose apps) or through sideloading (administrators choose apps to deploy). Is there an option for users to choose the apps they'll like to install in…
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Clone Windows Hyper-V VMs?

I need to setup several Hyper-V VMs, all with the same base OS configuration. This is for a web site testing lab, so I'll need to start with Windows XP and then each one will have a different version of IE (6-8). I may need to do the same for…
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How to connect with a vpn connection without any prompt in windows 8

In windows 7 , we can define a hotkey for connect to internet via VPN connection immediately without any prompt, through these Steps: Create shortcut for VPN connection for example in Desktop. Define a hotkey for that shortcut In VPN properties >>…
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Windows 8 driver setup error on a Hyper-V

I have Hyper-v Windows 2008 R2 sp1 x64, and I downloaded Windows 8 Pro x64 to test the OS and fool around with it. When I try to install from the ISO or the DVD I get a windows Setup error: A media driver your computer needs is missing. This could…
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Automatic binding of Windows 8 account with Live ID

Is it possible to do automatic binding of Windows 8 account with Live ID thru GPO, scripts, or some sort automated way that will basically do it for everyone in domain. There is an assumption that each Live ID will correspond to their primary…
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Windows 8 Hyper-V & VLANs

I'm trying to setup Windows 8's Hyper-V so that I have: Switch which has 2 VMS connected to it Vyatta box which is connected to said switch and set as trunk (native vlan 1, allowed vlans 1-4000) Windows 2008 R2 server with access vlan 2002 I have…
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Group Policy Object mapping network drive denied because it's empty?

I have a GPO to map a network drive, but it's being denied, and a GP Result report lists it as denied because the GPO is empty: The Group Policy Settings:
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How to host two web applications with different "domains" in IIS 8

I have setup to entries in my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 mymvcapp.dev www.mymvcapp.dev 127.0.0.1 mywebapi.dev www.mywebapi.dev In the first I want to host my mvc app and the second entry is for my web api app. Now I have added these two bindings to my…
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How to gain access to a local user profile linked to a Microsoft account?

Inspired by this question, but without all the clutter about bad coding practices. On Windows 8 and later systems, you can log in using three types of accounts: Local user account Domain user account Microsoft account Let's say you need to gain…
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Active Directory windows 2012

I have problem with windows 2012 active directory. one of the client machine which is windows 8 could not login to active directory we need to close network connection to login windows 8 local and turn network on again.it was working properly and…
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LDAP Bind failure / GroupPolicy 1006 / ErrorCode 81 (on one workstation only)

Multiple domain accounts on this same workstation yield the same error; those same accounts on other workstations sail through with no problems. It's occurring intermittently: roughly about 9 out of 10 queries fail, but rarely (with decreasing…
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