Augusto Alvarez Wrote a nice e-book “Introducing Windows 8, an overview for IT Professionals” (preview version).
This book has some quite important topics that every IT guy which is considering implement Windows 8 in their company should read it carefully. Here’s a short summary for the topics included (I’m just naming a few; the entire list is available in the download):
- 1. Overview
- 2. Experiencing Windows 8
- 3. Windows 8 for IT Pros
- Customizing and configuring Windows 8
- Client Hyper-V
- Redesign NTFS
- PowerShell 3.0
- 4. Preparing for Deployment
- Windows 8 SKUs
- Application compatibility
- User state migration
- Windows To Go
- 5. Deploying Windows 8
- Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit
- Deployment and Imaging
- User state migration tool
- MDT 2012 Update 1
- e. SCCM 2012 with SP1
- f. Desktop Virtualization
- 6. Delivering Windows Apps
- 7. Windows 8 Recovery
- DaRT
- 8. Windows 8 Management
- Group Policy Improvements
- Windows Intune
- Mobile device support
- 9. Windows 8 Security
- 10. Internet Explorer 10
- 11. Windows 8 virtualization
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Application Virtualization
- User State virtualization
I did not read it completely, but for what I’ve seen so far the content is not fully detailed with step-by-steps but contains valuable information and guidance that must be read it if you are implementing / managing Windows 8.