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Want to know more about Windows 8 Consumer Preview or Server Beta?

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Then check out the Understand and Troubleshoot Guides we just released.  These were written by myself and some others on the team working on Windows 8 about all sorts of cool things you can do.  They're available here: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7532.understand-and-troubleshoot-windows-server.aspx

And yes, there is one on servicing :)

For Windows 8 News and Feature information, see Steven's blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/ 

For questions or issues seen in client, use this forum: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/w8itpro

For questions issues seen in server, use this forum: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/winserver8

As always, the main Windows 8 Consumer Preview page is right here: https://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview

Enjoy!

--Joseph

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Glad you're happy :) But no, SFC /SCANNOW is still relevant

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Features on Demand gives you some of that control (from a payload perspective).  There are good and bad consdierations to a new dism command but I'll think about it and forward the suggestion along.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hey Joseph, What happened with the servicing one? I was looking for it a little bit ago and it seems to have disappeared!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    So first run sfc /scannow, next CheckHealth and if both detect errors which can't be fixed run RestoreHealth? Correct?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    thanks for listening to me and making checksur downloading files from the internet :) 1 question. Do  DISM /Online /cleanup-image /CheckHealth and DISM /Online /cleanup-image /RestoreHealth replace sfc /scannow completely?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    @joscon, Well I am requesting Microsoft to consider giving the user, control over it. Something like dism /online /cleanup-image /hotfixessuperseded . And even the automatic scavenging needs to be happen much more aggressively and more frequently. The goal is free up space which is being taken unnecessarily by older updates. People's SSDs are running out of valuable disk space!!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    We'll automatically mark packages for scavenging and purge those on intervals based on CPU timers.  I'm not running anything different than either of you outside of Win8 :)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Yes, that would be my recommendation for now.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    LOL, not a problem. I spoke with the team after you mentioned it and they were considering re-publishing my newer content.  I don't know when, or if, that will happen. If you're still working on the content, shoot me an email and I might be able to help you out.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    nope, Windows 7 removes nothing automatically. If it's really done nobody would ask you to implement it ;)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    LOL, thanks Susan.  I wrote the BitLocker, Activation and Online Backup ones as well.  The servicing stuff will cover a lot of the basics of what is new for Windows 8 Consumer Preview/Server Beta.  Features on Demand and Inbox Corruption Repair are very cool to me personally and I hope you all check it out and let me know your thoughts.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Would have been nice to see the option in Windows 8 to cleanup superseded updates automatically. Manually determining which updates are replaced by a newer one and uninstalling the older ones to free disk space is a time-consuming chore for Vista/7 systems. At least the days of downloading CheckSUR will be over. One infinitesimally miniscule step towards reaching the same level of performance and pain-free operation of the superior NT5.x servicing.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Thanks Joseph! (I was writing some Windows Update content today and remembered I'd asked you this - I love that I forget for over a month but you  responded in just a few minutes. Hah! Nice work :D ) Hopefully we can get it back up! :)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I don't know which Windows 7 Build you run, but Win7 RTM/Sp1 don't cleanup sueprseded updates!!!!!!! Maybe you run a Windows 7 Sp2 build that we don't have ;)

  • Anonymous
    February 29, 2012
    I just spotted yours and about fell on the floor.  Thank you! www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2012
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