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Designed to help IT professionals develop real-world, job-role-
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supporting Windows 8 in the enterprise. Build hands-on expertise
through a series of lessons, exercises, and suggested practices—
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Install or upgrade to Windows 8
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Congure and troubleshoot networking features
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Congure shared resources—les, folders, printers
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Manage legacy applications and modern Windows 8 apps
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Congure and manage Internet Explorer
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Manage and troubleshoot hardware device drivers
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Implement security settings and policies
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Manage Hyper-V
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Back up, monitor, and restore your system
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Conguring Windows 8
Conguring Windows 8
About You
This Training Guide will be most useful
to IT professionals who have at least
entry-level experience supporting
Windows in the enterprise.
About the Authors
Scott Lowe has 20 years of IT experi-
ence, including ten as a CIO. He is
founder of a strategic IT consultancy
and the author of several books and
video courses.
Derek Schauland is a Microsoft MVP
with 15 years of experience in technical
support and Microsoft systems
administration.
Rick Vanover, MCITP, is a software
product strategy specialist and an
expert and evangelist for virtualization
technologies.
About the Practices
We recommend using a Hyper-V
virtualized environment for the practices.
Alternately, you will need two physical
PCs running Windows 8.
For system requirements, see the
Introduction.
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In this chapter:
Contents at a glance iii
Introduction xix
System requirements xix
Hardware requirements xx
Software requirements xxi
Practice setup instructions xxi
Acknowledgments xxi
Errata & book support xxii
We want to hear from you xxii
Stay in touch xxii
CHAPTER 1
Evaluating Windows 8 1
Before you begin 1
Lesson 1: What’s new in Windows 8 1
Navigating the Windows 8 user interface 2
Introducing some new features 12
Lesson summary 24
Lesson review 24
Lesson 2: Understanding product editions, architectures, and hardware requirements 25
Windows 8 product edition differences 26
Windows 8 product architecture differences 28
Windows 8 hardware requirements 29
Lesson summary 31
Lesson review 31
Practice exercises 32
Exercise 1: Add an Internet Explorer shortcut to the Start screen 32
Exercise 2: Congure user settings to synchronize between Windows 8 devices 33
Suggested practice exercises 33
Answers 34
Lesson 1 34
Lesson 2 34
CHAPTER 2
Installing and migrating to Windows 8 37
Before you begin 37
Lesson 1: Installing Windows 8 on a new or formatted system 38
Starting the installation 38
Conguring your account 40
Joining an Active Directory domain 44
Installing Windows 8 with Windows To Go 44
Lesson summary 48
Lesson review 49
Lesson 2: Upgrading or migrating from a previous version of Windows 49
Running the Setup Wizard 50
Conguring your account 51
Upgrading from Windows Vista 52
Upgrading from Windows XP 52
Moving and transferring les by using Windows Easy Transfer 52
Lesson summary 64
Lesson review 64
Lesson 3: Installing Windows 8 on startup VHD les 65
Creating a VHD from an existing installation 66
Creating the VHD during the installation by using DiskPart 68
Starting the system from the VHD 69
Removing VHD installations 71
Lesson summary 72
Lesson review 72
Practice exercises 73
Exercise 1: Install Windows 8 73
Exercise 2: Congure Windows 8 to start from a VHD 74
Exercise 3: Set up a Windows To Go workspace 74
Suggested practice exercises 75
Answers 76
Lesson 1 76
Lesson 2 76
Lesson 3 78
CHAPTER 3
Handling hardware and device drivers 79
Before you begin 79
Lesson 1: Managing drivers 79
Driver installation methods 80
Driver types 81
Using Device Manager 81
Using the System Information utility 93
Discovering the Driver Verier utility 95
Adding device drivers to the driver store 102
Lesson summary 103
Lesson review 103
Lesson 2: Managing hardware devices 104
Enabling and disabling hardware devices 104
Monitoring USB devices 105
Lesson summary 107
Lesson review 107
Lesson 3: Managing enterprise hardware policies 107
Managing enterprise hardware installation policies 108
Lesson summary 113
Lesson review 114
Practice exercises 114
Exercise 1: Locate hardware ID for a USB thumb drive 114
Exercise 2: Create Group Policy to prevent the installation of hardware devices 115
Suggested practice exercises 115
Answers 116
Lesson 1 116
Lesson 2 116
Lesson 3 117
CHAPTER 4
Installing and conguring applications 119
Before you begin 119
Lesson 1: Managing traditional desktop applications 119
Using Windows Installer in Windows 8 120
Running Windows Installer packages and MSIExec 120
Managing compatibility with Application Compatibility Toolkit and App-V 122
Controlling program settings for traditional applications 123
Lesson summary 126
Lesson review 127
Lesson 2: Managing Windows 8 native applications 128
Installing, updating, and uninstalling Windows 8 native applications 128
Reinstalling apps that have been removed 129
Acquiring desktop apps in the Windows Store 131
Disabling and controlling access to the Windows Store app 131
Managing access to hardware and installed applications 132
Controlling applications by using AppLocker 133
Sideloading apps in Windows 8 137
Inventorying and removing apps 139
Lesson summary 140
Lesson review 140
Practice exercises 141
Exercise 1: Install line-of-business applications 142
Exercise 2: Prevent access to the Windows Store 142
Suggested practice exercises 142
Answers 143
Lesson 1 143
Lesson 2 144
CHAPTER 5
Managing Internet Explorer 145
Before you begin 145
Lesson 1: Conguring Internet Explorer 10 145
Managing two Internet Explorer experiences 146
Managing Internet Explorer settings by using Group Policy 153
Lesson summary 155
Lesson review 155
Lesson 2: Understanding and conguring browser security settings 156
Managing new Internet Explorer 10 security settings 156
Adding trusted sites to Internet Explorer 162
Managing Internet Explorer security settings by using Group Policy 162
Lesson summary 164
Lesson review 164
Lesson 3: Managing Internet Explorer add-ons 165
Understanding add-ons 165
Managing ActiveX controls 166
Managing other add-ons 169
Managing Internet Explorer add-ons by using Group Policy 172
Lesson summary 175
Lesson review 176
Practice exercises 176
Exercise 1: Congure ActiveX (Internet zone) 176
Exercise 2: Disable the Map With Bing accelerator 177
Suggested practice exercises 177
Answers 178
Lesson 1 178
Lesson 2 178
Lesson 3 179
CHAPTER 6
Using Hyper-V 181
Before you begin 181
Lesson 1: Learning about Hyper-V for Windows 8 181
Introducing Hyper-V for Windows 8 182
When to use Hyper-V 183
Data management and licensing 184
Enabling Hyper-V 185
What you need to know to succeed 186
Lesson summary 190
Lesson review 191
Lesson 2: Creating and using Hyper-V virtual machines 191
Planning your virtual machines 192
Creating a new virtual machine 195
Using a Hyper-V virtual machine 202
Lesson summary 206
Lesson review 207
Lesson 3: Conguring virtual machine networking and storage 208
Introducing storage and networking for Hyper-V 208
Hyper-V virtual switch 210
Lesson summary 216
Lesson review 217
Practice exercises 217
Exercise 1: Create a virtual machine 217
Exercise 2: Customize a virtual machine 218
Suggested practice exercises 218
Answers 219
Lesson 1 219
Lesson 2 220
Lesson 3 221
CHAPTER 7
Administering Windows networking 223
Before you begin 223
Lesson 1: Conguring networking 223
What’s new in networking in Windows 8 224
Installing a network adapter 227
Managing network settings 228
Connecting to a wireless network 241
Lesson summary 246
Lesson review 246
Lesson 2: Troubleshooting networking 247
Updating the Task Manager view for networking 247
Viewing Windows 8 network settings 249
Using the network troubleshooters 252
Using command-line tools 254
Lesson summary 255
Lesson review 255
Practice exercises 256
Exercise 1: Disable Network Discovery on the Private network prole 256
Exercise 2: Manually congure IP settings for one of your network adapters 256
Exercise 3: Use the netstat command 257
Suggested practice exercises 257
Answers 258
Lesson 1 258
Lesson 2 258
CHAPTER 8
Conguring security 261
Before you begin 261
Lesson 1: Managing Windows Firewall and exceptions 261
Choosing Windows Firewall 262
Choosing Windows Firewall with Advanced Security 264
Monitoring rules congured in Windows Firewall 274
Lesson summary 274
Lesson review 275
Lesson 2: Conguring network discovery and wireless security 275
Creating network discovery proles 276
Managing wireless security 280
Understanding types of wireless security 281
Wireless networking risks 282
Reducing security issues on a wireless network 282
Lesson summary 283
Lesson review 283
Lesson 3: Using Secure Boot and SmartScreen Filter 284
Ensuring that Windows has been signed using Secure Boot 284
Staying safe by using SmartScreen Filter 285
Lesson summary 286
Lesson review 287
Practice exercises 287
Exercise 1: Congure inbound rewall rules for programs 287
Exercise 2: Congure outbound rewall rules for ports 288
Exercise 3: Congure rewall exceptions 288
Suggested practice exercises 289
Answers 290
Lesson 1 290
Lesson 2 290
Lesson 3 291
Chapter 9
Working with remote management tools 293
Before you begin 293
Lesson 1: Working with Remote Assistance 294
Initiating Remote Assistance 294
Providing remote assistance 296
Lesson summary 297
Lesson review 298
Lesson 2: Conguring and using Remote Desktop 298
Conguring Remote Desktop 299
Opening the Remote Desktop application 301
Lesson summary 308
Lesson review 308
Lesson 3: Conguring, managing, and troubleshooting connections 309
Troubleshooting network problems 310
Using Troubleshooter 313
Connecting to VPNs in Windows 8 315
Lesson summary 322
Lesson review 322
Lesson 4: Using other management tools remotely 323
Netsh 324
Windows Remote Shell 325
Windows PowerShell 326
Microsoft Management Console 328
Lesson summary 334
Lesson review 334
Practice exercises 335
Exercise 1: Congure a Remote Desktop session that launches PowerShell.exe and connect to a remote computer 335
Exercise 2: Help another user initiate a Remote Assistance session 336
Exercise 3: Work with Windows PowerShell to obtain information about a remote system 336
Suggested practice exercises 337
Answers 338
Lesson 1 338
Lesson 2 338
Lesson 3 339
Lesson 4 340
Chapter 10
Sharing resources 343
Before you begin 343
Lesson 1: Sharing les and folders 343
Conguring the Network and Sharing Center 344
Sharing les and folders 346
Understanding NTFS permissions 352
Lesson summary 363
Lesson review 363
Lesson 2: Sharing printers 364
Conguring shared printers 364
Conguring printing permissions 366
Lesson summary 367
Lesson review 367
Practice exercises 368
Exercise 1: Enable le sharing for a network adapter in your lab server 368
Exercise 2: Test each other 368
Suggested practice exercises 368
Answers 369
Lesson 1 369
Lesson 2 369
CHAPTER 11
File system and storage management 371
Before you begin 371
Lesson 1: Managing disks and storage 371
Using disk management 372
Disk Defragmenter and Disk Cleanup 377
Using Microsoft Drive Optimizer to organize data 380
Lesson summary 390
Lesson review 390
Lesson 2: Working with le systems 391
Security within the le system 391
Inheritance and cumulative effectiveness 397
Taking ownership 399
Understanding share-level permissions 400
Auditing access to securable objects by using SACLs 400
Understanding Encrypting File System 402
BitLocker 404
Working with quotas 405
Working with quotas for user accounts 407
Lesson summary 408
Lesson review 408
Lesson 3: Introducing Storage Spaces 409
What is Storage Spaces? 409
Creating storage spaces 410
Lesson summary 413
Lesson review 413
Practice exercises 414
Exercise 1: Use disk optimizer 414
Exercise 2: Congure Storage Spaces 415
Suggested practice exercises 415
Answers 416
Lesson 1 416
Lesson 2 417
Lesson 3 418
CHAPTER 12
Administering authentication and authorization 419
Before you begin 419
Lesson 1: Determining who’s who through authentication 419
What is authentication and what does it do? 420
How does Windows authenticate users accessing the system? 420
User name and password-based authentication 422
Smart card authentication 425
Biometric authentication 427
Managing credentials in Windows 8 by using Credential Manager 428
Conguring a Microsoft account for use with Windows 430
Logging on by using a picture password 432
Using a personal identication number (PIN) for authentication 435
Lesson summary 436
Lesson review 436
Lesson 2: Managing authorization and access rights 437
Getting started with user rights 437
Working in groups 438
Understanding rights vs. permissions 438
Assigning user rights 438
Local Security Policy console 443
Running tasks as administrator and user account control 452
Run As 454
Using and managing certicates 455
Lesson summary 458
Lesson review 458
Practice exercises 459
Exercise 1: Congure a Microsoft account for authentication 459
Exercise 2: Congure a picture password and PIN for sign-in 459
Exercise 3: Run applications with elevated privileges 460
Suggested practice exercises 460
Answers 461
Lesson 1 461
Lesson 2 462
CHAPTER 13
Managing and securing mobility 463
Before you begin 463
Lesson 1: Managing BitLocker and other policy-based mobility tools 463
Conguring BitLocker policies 464
Managing BitLocker at the command line 466
Using BitLocker on computers without TPM 468
Using BitLocker on removable media (BitLocker To Go) 470
Conguring policy settings for ofine les 471
Conguring ofine le synchronization 473
Conguring policy settings for device power 476
Lesson summary 478
Lesson review 478
Lesson 2: Working with location-based settings and connection methods 480
Connecting to devices by using Wi-Fi Direct 480
Using airplane mode and location-based services in Windows 8 481
Lesson summary 482
Lesson review 482
Practice exercises 483
Exercise 1: Congure BitLocker and BitLocker To Go 483
Exercise 2: Congure subfolder availability for ofine les 483
Exercise 3: Congure actions for the power button 483
Suggested practice exercises 484
Answers 485
Lesson 1 485
Lesson 2 486
CHAPTER 14
Monitoring and maintaining Windows 487
Before you begin 487
Lesson 1: Managing Windows Update 487
Accessing Windows Update settings by using Control Panel 488
Conguring update settings 490
Identifying new updates 493
Managing Windows Update in Windows 8 native interface 494
Viewing update history 496
Rolling back updates 497
Conguring Windows Update policies 499
Lesson summary 500
Lesson review 500
Lesson 2: Monitoring, optimizing, and troubleshooting system health and performance 501
Managing and monitoring the system by using Task Manager 502
Using Windows Action Center 511
Conguring and analyzing event logs 513
Monitoring system resources by using Performance Monitor 517
Lesson summary 521
Lesson review 522
Practice exercises 522
Exercise 1: Enable automatic updates on your computer 522
Exercise 2: Manually end a process in Windows 523
Exercise 3: Create an event log lter 523
Suggested practice exercises 523
Answers 524
Lesson 1 524
Lesson 2 524
CHAPTER 15
System protection and recovery 527
Before you begin 527
Lesson 1: Working with backup and restoration 528
Backing up Windows 8 528
Creating additional images 530
Protecting les and data by using File History 530
Restoring an entire computer 535
Using System Restore for less invasive troubleshooting 536
Two new methods of restoration and recovery 539
Lesson summary 543
Lesson review 543
Lesson 2: Advanced settings and features for Windows recovery 544
MSCong 544
Task Manager Startup 546
Recovering from a bad driver installation 546
Lesson summary 547
Lesson review 547
Lesson 3: Advanced recovery and restoration options 548
Creating a system repair or recovery disc 549
Using Windows Recovery Environment 550
Lesson summary 552
Lesson review 552
Practice exercises 553
Exercise 1: Back up les in Windows 8 553
Exercise 2: Recover les by using File History 553
Exercise 3: Bring your computer back to new with a reset 554
Exercise 4: Use Advanced Startup to troubleshoot problems with Windows 8 554
Suggested practice exercises 554
Answers 555
Lesson 1 555
Lesson 2 556
Lesson 3 557
Contents at a glance
Introduction xix
CHAPTER 1 Evaluating Windows 8 1
CHAPTER 2 Installing and migrating to Windows 8 37
CHAPTER 3 Handling hardware and device drivers 79
CHAPTER 4 Installing and conguring applications 119
CHAPTER 5 Managing Internet Explorer 145
CHAPTER 6 Using Hyper-V 181
CHAPTER 7 Administering Windows networking 223
CHAPTER 8 Conguring security 261
CHAPTER 9 Working with remote management tools 293
CHAPTER 10 Sharing resources 343
CHAPTER 11 File system and storage management 371
CHAPTER 12 Administering authentication and authorization 419
CHAPTER 13 Managing and securing mobility 463
CHAPTER 14 Monitoring and maintaining Windows 487
CHAPTER 15 System protection and recovery 527
Index 559
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Contents
Introduction xix
System requirements xix
Practice setup instructions xxi
Acknowledgments xxi
Errata & book support xxii
We want to hear from you xxii
Stay in touch xxii
Chapter 1 Evaluating Windows 8 1
Lesson 1: What’s new in Windows 8 .................................1
Navigating the Windows 8 user interface 2
Introducing some new features 12
Lesson summary 24
Lesson review 24
Lesson 2: Understanding product editions, architectures, and
hardware requirements
........................................25
Windows 8 product edition differences 26
Windows 8 product architecture differences 28
Windows 8 hardware requirements 29
Lesson summary 31
Lesson review 31
Practice exercises ................................................32
Exercise 1: Add an Internet Explorer shortcut to the Start screen 32
Exercise 2: Congure user settings to synchronize between
Windows 8 devices 33
