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Hi - anyone got advice on how to do this?.. I've created a reference VM machine - set it up as desired, created a autounattend.xml file and sysprepped using this... but all it does is take my previously customised settings and replaces them with Windows Store... I've set the copyprofile to true but it doesn't seem to honour this. any tips? Jordy

We use Microsoft UAG 2010 for our staff to run RDP and remote apps on their home computers . From what I'm reading on the Technet website it seems to imply that they don't currently support this using Windows 8 / IE 10? UAG 2010 Service Pack 3 is in the works - Forefront UAG Product Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs Is it really the case the Microsoft aren't supporting the latest version of their own software or am I missing something ?

Hi there, Without my knowledge the music teacher has decided to buy a surface pro 3 so they can use some fancy music writing software which is only available on the windows store. I was just wondering if the app was brought via the windows store is it locked to the account of the person who brought it? Ideally I would like it available to everyone who uses the computer. Also for buying the app would it be better to create a new email for example [email protected] or something a long those lines or just use mine/another email address? Thanks in advance for your reply! P.S Already not a fan of windows 8!

Windows 8 and Its Incredibly Cool New Touch Interface Am I the only one who thinks this'll be horrible in a work/school environment.....

Hi Building first Windows 8.1 Pro image for new laptops. Would be happier doing Windows 7 image. Unfortunately the touch screen driver is not available on Windows 7, so even though Win10 is just round the corner. We have to have a working image for about 2 weeks time. So anyway, I have logged in with my student user and done my usual configurations, firefox certificate, homepages, start menu order (classic shell) blah blah. Go in as administrator, copy the profile to C:\Users\Default, log in with a new student account and all my settings have come across. Well all except one. Unlike Windows 7, my file extensions default programs are not opening with the designated program I have told it to in my original student user. Does anyone know a quick way to export these settings and put them in group policy instead? Or another simple method like a Batch file that I could run one time when we log in with the students user that sets the correct programs. Thanks

WindowsToGo Windows 8 Enterprise Edition Preview (build 8400 - only available to SA customers on volume licence download centre) and later has 'Windows To Go' (formally known as portable workspace creator) in the control panel. WindowsToGo creation in the Enterprise preview has has two main hardware requirements: * 32GB memory stick * USB RMB marked as 'Fixed' Forfill these two requirements and its very simple to create a Windows To Go stick. It's not as easy as it sounds because at the time of typing there is only 1 USB3 stick that reports itself as fixed; the Kingston USB3 DT Ultimate with part number KW-U4132-1FA (in Europe). I'm guessing the official WindowsToGo drives will be more expensive than usual, the current beta kingston one is around twice the price of its bitflipped USB3 counterpart. This stick is listed as only for testing and the part number is due to change in October when the model is finalised and Windows 8 released. Normal Kingston DT Ultimates G2's are marked as removable drives and cannot be changed, even with the available manufactures tools. You can plug in USB caddies with 2.5/3.5 HDs and these will detect as fixed drive properly. USB2 drives reported as fixed or can have the RMB are available. The speed difference of USB3 is well work the extra if you have USB3 ports on your PCs, its actually usable. WindowsToGo (Control Panel Application) will not allow Windows8 to be installed onto a 'removable' USB 2/3 drive, but it is possible to get it working correctly: Things you need: * Modified (for generic use) CFAdisk 32bit Driver * Windows 8 Enterprise Edition Preview or Enterprise RTM iso/disk/wim * 32GB memory stick (I used Kingston DT Ultimate GT2, USB3 with non changable RMB marked as removable) Other things I've used: * Windows 7 Ultimate laptop * VMware Workstation 8 1: Install Windows 8 Enterprise Edition into a Virtual Machine, I used VMware Workstation 8 2: Copy the usb filter driver files; CFAdisk.inf and cfadisk.sys to the VM. 3: Plug in the USB stick into a USB2 port and let the Win8VM detect the disk. 4: Open diskmanager, right click on the USB disk, driver, update driver, browse, let me pick, have disk then locate your cfadisk driver ignoring the driver signing. 5: Copy your install.wim into the Win8VM 6: In your Win8VM, open the control panel and run Windows To Go 7: Having installed CFAdisk in the VM your drive should be detected, if not remove and plug back in. Click Next. 8: Now select your location of your modified install.wim image. Skip bitlocker drive encryption for now. Create the drive. 9: After its created do not restart, but quit the Windows To Go creator. 10: Go back into disk manager in the Win8VM and you'll see your USB partitioned into 350mb and 'the rest'. Right click on the 350mb partition and delete it. You want to keep this 350m space blank for now. 11: Mark 'the rest' partition as 'áctive' 12: Right Click on 'the rest' partition, change drive letter and give it a drive letter (e.g. E:\) 13: In the Win8VM open an admin command prompt and run: bcdboot e:\windows /s e: /f all 14: Shutdown your VM and get your host PC to boot from USB 15: Let Windows8 on USB boot and do the basic Windows 8 setup. 16: Copy the usb filter driver files; CFAdisk.inf and cfadisk.sys to your WTG drive. 17: Open diskmanager, right click on the WTG disk, driver, update driver, browse, let me pick, have disk then locate your cfadisk driver ignoring the driver signing. 18: After booting Windows8 on USB open diskmanager, right click on the WTG disk, driver, update driver, browse, let me pick, have disk then locate your cfadisk driver ignoring the driver signing. 19: Reboot the Windows8 USB drive, the Windows8 USB drive should be detected as Basic now. 20: Right click on the C drive and enable bitlocker, do the whole drive. This will recreate the 350mb partition, encrypt your data, remain bootable and retain the cfadisk filter driver for your stick. Let it reboot when it needs to. Job done. Notes: Although you can finish at point 15, windowsupdate does not work on a removable drive. It is important to get your USB drive Windows8 listed as fixed so windowsupdates work correctly. Other methods of creating bootable Windows8 can be done with imagex or other tools. These do detect they are running from USB correctly, the drive can be removed, but they mount local drives by default, WindowsToGo does not. They will also need the drive to be seen as BASIC or will they will fail windows updates. Above is 32bit only. 64bit requires you to disable driver signing and add a custom 64bit cfadisk driver. Windows Store does not work on WTG A KW-U4132-1FA is detected as a fixed drive and "Just Works"

Intel 945gtp motherboard running Win 8 and 8.1 Just installed Windows 8 updated to 8.1 runs very nice the only driver that did not install correctly was the sound drivers for on-board sound for front plugins I reinstalled the vista and XP driver from Intel, works now for mic in and headphone jack at the front although no longer show that it is plugged in. Here s the link https://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13706/eng/AUD_allOS_D20001.0x_PV_IDTGUI_v105_Legacy.exe&lang=eng&Dwnldid=13706&DownloadType=Drivers&OSFullname=Windows+Vista+64* running 8.1 Win and a PCi video card hope this helps someone