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  Remote Assistance in Windows 8 With Shadowing concept removed from Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services, a lot of users want an alternative mechanism to be able to Remote Assist an RDS user. Please find the steps to request for remote assistance...

Upgrading to Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 One of my Colleagues, Vimal Shekar, has written a great and detailed series around upgrading scenarios of Windows 8. He has broken it down into 5 posts for Windows 8 and 4 for Windows Server 2012. Please...

Remote Desktop Services Gateway configuration for RDS farm Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 has undergone tremendous changes. Right from the installation options (where you get Role-based Installation and Scenario-based Installation...

MDOP 2012 is now available with an upgrade on all the products present in the suite. The download for the product suite can be found here . The most popular product in MDOP suite is App-V, and with MDOP 2012, App-V 5.0 is getting released. It has undergone...

Sharing with you a great talk delivered by two of the biggest names in Tech Industry, Mark Minasi and Mark Russinovich. It talks about the simple tips and tweaks that you can use to make a Tech Talk much more interesting and relevant. The...

List of Windows 8 Shortcuts With a paradigm shift in how we look at a Start screen, Windows 8 has added a lot of shortcuts for easier navigation. Check out a loooooong list of shortcuts for Windows 8 to make your life simpler. Windows key...

The wait is over . The biggest change in the Server Operating System history is ready for launch. And it is on September 4th. Be a part of it by registering at the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/new.aspx Be...

Understanding Windows 8 Client Hyper-V Hi Dear reader. Cross posting one of my posts in my team blog. In the blog, we talk a little about Windows 8 Client Hyper-V, how you can enable it and some of the scenarios: http://blogs.technet.com/b/infratalks...

Enabling Windows Store on Windows To Go machines Windows To Go is a new feature that is introduced in Windows 8 Enterprise version. It enables users to boot directly into an enterprise level Operating System from their external hard-drives. Windows...

Microsoft adds a few more weapons in its hardware armor by the release of a new range of keyboards and mice. There are five new devices thatthey announced, Wedge keyboard, Wedge mouse, Sculpt keyboard, Sculpt mouse and Touch Mouse. These devices look...

Disabling User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 8 With the new User Interface of Windows 8, accessing simple panels and doing easy tasks can be a pain. This blog post is for one such simple task, which has changed from the previous versions. ...

With Windows Surface launched and Windows 8 being the next generation Operating System, Dr. Z has published a great series of blogs on how to configure various features in Windows 8 Client. Here is a list of all the blogs in the series: Windows 8 How...

One of the first things that an IT administrator (and even an end user) dreams for is “Integration”. For an administrator, integration of multiple technologies in your environment, consolidation of various products, management of everything...

Previous Post: Integration of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and App-V 4.6 (Part 2) Configure Configuration Manager Distribution Point Servers and Client to Enable Virtual Application Deployment 1. Enable Standard Distribution Point server...

Previous Post: Integration of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and App-V 4.6 (Part 1) How to Perform Common Virtual Application Management Tasks with Configuration Manager App-V integrates seamlessly with System Center Configuration Manager...

Application Virtualization is an important component of the virtualization stack. An important and a vital ingredient in the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure cuisine, it separates out the application from the Operating System. Configuration Manager, on...