Windows 8.1: What enterprise users need to know | ZDNetMicrosoft execs said last month that enterprise customers would be able to access the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) to get the Windows 8.1 Enterprise and 8.1 Pro bits, once they were made generally available. They noted at that time that Windows 8.1 (core) would not be available on VLSC.
Those promised Enterprise and Pro bits are available as of today, October 18, in the VLSC, Microsoft officials said. However, I am hearing from some volume license customers that they cannot see any listing for Windows 8.1 in the VLSC and they're being issued trouble tickets.
As Microsoft officials noted in an October 18 Springboard Series blog post, Windows 8.1 Enterprise cannot be updated via the Windows Store; it must be updated via the media from the VLSC.
Customers can opt to do an in-place update of their existing Windows 8 Enterprise installations by using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 or System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, or by burning the media to a DVD or copy to a USB key.
As a reminder: Anyone upgrading from Windows 8.1 Preview to Windows 8.1 GA should know that all applications — Windows Store and desktop/Win32 — need to be reinstalled as part of the update process.
For those who haven't yet checked out Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise, Microsoft also made free 90-day trials of Windows 8.1 Enterprise .ISOs available today via its TechNet Evaluation Center.
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Windows 8.1: What enterprise users need to know
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I think all they need to know ist to use W7 untill MS provides an OS that:
- doesn't need annual upgrades ( because upgrades are expensive to implement with testing etc.)
- has an OS that does not need much usertraining, that is expensive too
- has an OS that is made for professionals with desktops
- has a clear OS plan. i.e, every 3 years new OS that works at the first try. because IT departments typically skip an OS to upgrade every 6 years or so. a 8.2, 8.3 every year really doesn't work in corporate IT
at home nerds upgrade all the time, but at work with hundreds different software, hardware etc. validation is a ot of work. Count at least 10 hours user training and added IT support with the new UI (and I don't even count the computer-illiterate workers), so you spend $1000 on this, which way exceeds the OS license cost. And they do that every year now?
- doesn't need annual upgrades ( because upgrades are expensive to implement with testing etc.)
- has an OS that does not need much usertraining, that is expensive too
- has an OS that is made for professionals with desktops
- has a clear OS plan. i.e, every 3 years new OS that works at the first try. because IT departments typically skip an OS to upgrade every 6 years or so. a 8.2, 8.3 every year really doesn't work in corporate IT
at home nerds upgrade all the time, but at work with hundreds different software, hardware etc. validation is a ot of work. Count at least 10 hours user training and added IT support with the new UI (and I don't even count the computer-illiterate workers), so you spend $1000 on this, which way exceeds the OS license cost. And they do that every year now?
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