October, 2012

Welcome back! It’s Day 10, and part 2 of our posts on RDS. Today we are going to discuss Virtual Machine-based desktop deployment, focusing on creating a pooled collection. There are two primary types of RDS deployments in Windows Server 2012: ...

Welcome to Day 9 of our launch series, and the first of 4 covering RDS. In todays post, we are going to cover the “Remote Desktop Management Server” (RDMS) interface for creating and managing a Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop environment...

It’s day 8 of our Launch Series!  Today we are going to talk about creating a Windows To Go device.  Windows To Go workspaces (a new feature in Windows 8 Enterprise client) enables bootable USB thumb drives that essentially act as an additional...

Hello AskPerf! Welcome to day 7 of our Launch Series.  Today we are going to talk about the new Swapfile introduced in Windows 8.  You may ask, “Why do we need another virtual page file?”  Well, with the introduction of the Modern App,...

It’s day 6 of our Launch Series.  Today we are going to talk about Task Manager and the new benefits it provides.  For our Developers, there were 3 main goals that they focused on for the new Task Manager.  These included the following...

Welcome to day 5 of our Launch Series.  Today we are going to talk about the new File Explorer.  For our Developers, they set out to accomplish 3 main goals for the new File Explorer.  These included the following: Optimize Explorer for...

Welcome to day 4 of our Launch Series. Today we are going to talk about the speed at which Windows boots up. Windows 8’s fast startup mode is the default option on a Windows 8 client computer. Windows 8 systems that are built using Unified Extensible...

Welcome to day 3 of our Launch Series.  This is part two of the new Start Screen and User Interface in Windows 8.  In part one, we covered tiles and groups.  Today, we will look into switching between applications, the Snap feature, and...

Welcome to day 2 of our Launch Series. This is part one of a two part series regarding the new Start Screen and User Interface in Windows 8. Today, we will look into tiles and groups. The Start screen replaces the Start menu from previous versions...

Welcome to day 1 of our Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Launch Series! We hope you will enjoy reading this series as much as we enjoyed putting the content together. With that said, our first post is going to talk about the upgrade paths and editions...