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Upgrading to Windows 8.1 for Enterprise version users are not as simple as other versions. You cannot upgrade from the Windows Store and it will not be available as a old time "Windows Update" option. It is intendent that this is a task for the IT Department, that will do this using tools like "System Center Configuration Manager" or "MDT". If you have access to the Windows 8.1 Enterprise ISO file you can do this directly from the CD of course. But beware that you need an Windows 8.1 Enterprise key or update on your KMS

Personal Labs Microsoft have created lots of test lab for us geeks to try out different Microsoft stuff easy. The range of product and technologies are wide, we will find basic things like “ Step-by-Step Guide for Setting Up IPv6 in a Test Lab ” to learn more about IPv6, and more sophisticated guides that also might be more product focused like the “ Test Lab Extension: System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection ”.

Evry kjører gratis seminar sammen med Microsoft 29. November. Kom og se Microsoft sitt opplevelsessenter eller delta på foredrag om Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Phone 8, SharePoint 2013, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft BI, Microsoft Lync, System Center og nyheter på Cloud. Jeg holder Windows 8 og Server 2012 foredrag, mens Nicolai Henriksen Norges eneste MVP på System Center Config Manager holder SCCM foredrag. Som vanlig lover jeg masse demo'er Det blir intenst og lære rikt :-) Info og påmelding her SORRY IT'S IN NORWEGIAN ONLY! 

During my session at TechEd Europe I talked about and showed the "POC Jumpstart Kit". This is a smart solution to test out Windows and Office readiness, deployment or just play around With MDT, SCCM, ACT and MAP. It's a large download, but you get a great demo environment ready in no time. A bit like the Hydration Kit, but you don't have to do the installation process. Everything is on one server, and the server is ready to be used on Hyper-V or Virtual PC. There is no Integration Components installed so it's works well on both platforms. Convertion to other platforms should work as well. Among the greates benefits are that you get a "instructions manual" with it. There is 13 lab guides Learning you how to use all the powers installed in the "Jumpstart Kit" There is some "minor" issues to get it to work, but luckily there is workarounds :-)

Service pack 1 will give alot of important stuff to the System Center 2012 family, for instance Windows 8(2012) support for Sccm and Scom. Also backup for de-duplication volumes will be supported in DPM. Maybe the most exciting news for some people will be the support in SCCM for Mac OS and Linux and Unix servers. For more info you can go here:

You can find a real nice survival guide for the entire System Center 2012 package here For sure this will be the greates every release of System Center products, and most of the product comes with the greates upgrade ever. So as an Microsoft infrastructur guy there will be lots of excitement ahead.

Working with the management console for SCCM on the server might be a slow experience, and often it's not a sign for bad performance on the sever itself (even though it might be). The main reason are that your session are a foreground session, and you will then have low priority on the server system since it as default are setup to prioritize background sessions. This is how it should be on a server so don't go in and change this. The solution are to install the Sccm console on your own pc and run it from there.