Edge Show 16 - Windows Server 8 VDI

News:

• Last week the Windows 8 Consumer preview and Windows 8 Server beta was released
• This week, SQL Server 2012 was released

Technical Interview:

At [01:05] Adam Carter, showed usthe new Windows Server 8 Beta Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) / Remote Desktop Services and explained how this related to the Consumerization of IT. More specifically, we cover:

• Demo adding Windows Server 8 VDI
  • New wizard and when to use Standard deployment versus Quick Start
  • VDI Client being deployed and connecting via RDP
  • User Disks
• Differences between Pooled & Personal Virtual Desktops and Session virtualization. When would you want to use one versus the other?
• How does Windows Server 8 patch the virtual machines?
• How to upgrade users quickly to Windows 8?
• Remote Apps

Resources:

• Windows Server 8 Beta videos: http://aka.ms/ws8
• Windows Server 8 MVA course: http://aka.ms/ws8-mva

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