Sami Laiho

What’s new in Windows 8.1

WHOAMI /ALL (about.me/samilaiho)

• MVP Windows Expert – IT Pro

• SpringBoard Technical Expert Panel member

• Senior Consultant @ Sovelto

• Senior Technical Fellow @ adminize.com

• Twitter: @samilaiho

Projects

• www.wioski.com – Free replacement for SteadyState

• www.adminize.com – Getting rid of admin rights and provide onetime admin passwords

• www.getabrandnewpassword.com – Free and safe password cracker… I mean changer

• idealinfra.blogspot.com – My blog

Forgive my English

• When most get Administrator or Swedish get Administratör

• we get JÄRJESTELMÄNVALVOJA

8 against 99Language Translation

Finnish Järjestelmänvalvoja

French Administrateur

Hungarian Rendszergazda

Portuguese (Brazil) Administrador

Portuguese (Portugal) Administrador

Russian Администратор

Spanish Administrador

Swedish Administratör

Housekeeping

• I will give away one free course attendance as promised so leave your business card to participate Winner will be notified afterwards so be sure your card has your email address

• After the session I will stick around for questions and to give away a few T-shirts

Everything on one slideNew or improved Development Tools

New or improved Deployment and Management Tools

Text to Speak capabilities

In-app commerce support

Automatic App Updates

Hyper-V improvements

New Shims and Compatibility Modes

New Windows SwitchPoint for backward compatibility

New Windows Store

Better Mouse and Keyboard Options

Modern UI App Kiosk Mode

Enhanced Device Sync capabilities

Picture Slide Show on Lock Screen

New Touch Keyboard

Explorer SkyDrive integration

Redesigned Photo, Mail, Camera apps and more

Cloud connectivity enhancements (SkyDrive, etc.)

Improved All Apps List

Start Screen configuration by GPO

Start Screen Corporate Identity configuration

Improved Personalization

Variable, Continuous Size of Snap Views

Backgrounds with motions

Two more Live Tile sizes

Improved Search (Web, Bing, SkyDrive, Documents, Apps, etc.)

More colors and backgrounds for Start Screen

New Start Button

Boot to desktop

Modern UI Improvements – New Start Screen look and feel

Pervasive Device Encryption

Malware Resistance – Defender with network behavior monitoring and ActiveX support

Device Lockdown

Assigned Access

New Credential Theft Mitigations

New local Groups for hardening capabilities

Hundreds of new Win32 APIs

New Windows Surface 2 RT with new Keyboards

New Windows Surface 2 Pro with new Keyboards

Boot Performance improvements

Network performance improvements

Remote-Apps with faster reconnects and improved compression and multiple monitors support

Wider range of VPN clients

Apps can automatically trigger VPN connections

Embedded wireless radio

Windows To Go - Windows Store enabled by default

Touch to Buy with Biometrics

High DPI improvements

Dynamic DPI Changes

Per-Monitor DPI-Aware Applications

New GPOs (e.g. Start Screen)

Internet Explorer 11 with Enhanced Protected Mode ON by default

Internet Explorer 11 – automatic AddOn-Handling

IE11 with better touch performance, faster page load times and several other new features

Remote Business Data Removal (Selective Wipe)

IE 11 antimalware solution integration

Windows Store in-place upgrade (Click-Click-Done)

3D Printing Support (built-in

Biometrics Support (built-in)

Biometrics liveliness Detection

Biometrics modern reader support (swipe, touch)

Biometrics usage with UAC, Windows Store, Modern UI Apps and more

Common fingerprint enrollment

Workplace Join

Work Folders

Open MDM for BYOD

Mobile Device Management

Web Application Proxy

RDS Enhancements - enhanced VDI

Wi-Fi Direct Printing

NFC Tap-to-pair Printing

Native Miracast Wireless Display

Broadband Tethering

Who should be concerned?

• Windows 8.1 is free and mandatory

EOS for Windows 8

UI changes

• Start-button

• Boot to desktop

• Different size tiles

• Screen deviding freely

• Shared background for Start screen and Desktop

• New Search!

DEMO – UI CHANGES

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UI Management

• Start screen control

• PowerShell control for Default User for all versions

• GPO control for Enterprise-version only

• Assigned Access

• One app only – kiosk machines

DEMO – START SCREEN CONTROL AND ASSIGNED ACCESS

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Skydrive integration

• Always integrated to the OS

• No client software needed

• Can be disabled/controlled via policies

DEMO – SKYDRIVE

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Application updates

• Apps update automatically• Microsoft account not needed for updating

• Updated built in apps for imaging promised soon as MSI packages

• Apps can be installed on 81 computers

• Apps can have many instances and can launch other apps

Security

• Pervasive Device Encryption

• Windows Defender now has NIS

• Mstsc /restrictedadmin for secure RDP connections to untrusted computers

• OS natively supports protecting your passwords with PIN-codes, pictures and now fingerprints

Devices

• Multimonitor support get better

• Miracast support

• WiFi Direct printing

• 3D printer support

• NFC tap-to-pair printing

• Open MDM

DEMO – MIRACAST

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BYOD

• Workplace join

• Workfolders

Workplace Join• Join to Workplace from Any Device for SSO and Seamless

Second Factor Authentication Across Company Applications• Administrators can control who has access to company

resources based on application, user, device, and location• Works with Dynamic Access Control• Something between workgroup joined and domain joined devices

• Employees can access applications and data everywhere, on any device. Employees will get single sign-on when using browser applications or enterprise applications• Windows 8.1 and iOS (others promised)

Work Folders• With Work Folders users can store and access work files on BYOD devices• Files stored on Windows Server 2012 R2 server (and not in the cloud)• Company can enforce policies such as Encryption and Lock-screen

passwords• Company can wipe its data from the device (Selective remote wipe)• Works with Folder Redirection, Offline Files, home folders, quotas, file

screens and file classifications• It’s syncing (over HTTPS) so it supports offline use• Supports clustering

Work Folders requirements• Server 2012 R2 file server with NTFS volume• DNS record• Certificates for the server and possibly the

reverse proxy• Clients: Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 RT

• Windows 7, iOS promised soon after launch…Yep…

• The maximum size for individual files is 10 GB by default

Remote ”Selective” Wipe

• SCCM or InTune

DEMO – WORK FOLDERS

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Mobility• 3rd party VPN• Auto-triggered VPN • Mobile Broadband support gets better• Broadband tethering• Wireless enhancements• Group Policy caching• Windows To Go - store support

DEMO – VPN SUPPORT

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Virtualization – Hyper-V

• Same platform as server’s though more strict requirements

• Enhanced session mode and VM Direct Connect

• Generation 2 VMs

• Shared VHDs

• Online Exports and VHDX resizing

DEMO – HYPER-V

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