Server Posterpedia (free app): http://www.serverposterpedia.com/

Deployment

• Installing the .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh506443.aspx
• How to Customize the Start Screen:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134269.aspx
• Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2012/10/26/removing-built-in-applications-from-windows-8.aspx
• Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2012/10/26/start-screen-customization-with-mdt.aspx
• Removing or Updating Windows 8 built-in Windows Store apps causes Sysprep to fail:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2769827
• Install, Deploy, and Migrate to Windows 8:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh832022
• Deploy Windows To Go in Your Organization:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj721578.aspx
• Customizing the default Lock screen:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2012/12/11/windows-8-customizing-the-default-lock-screen.aspx

Activation

• Introduction to VAMT 3.0:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825141
• Active Directory-Based Activation Overview:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852637.aspx
• KMS Client Setup Keys:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx
• How to setup Active Directory-Based Activation Host for Microsoft Office
  2013:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/archive/2012/11/07/how-to-setup-active-directory-based-activation-host-for-microsoft-office-2013.aspx
• How to install the Office 2010 KMS Host License Pack on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/archive/2012/10/29/how-to-install-the-office-2010-kms-host-license-pack-on-windows-8-or-windows-server-2012.aspx 
• Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 installation may fail with error message: The product key entered does not match any of the Windows images available for installation. Enter a different product key:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2796988/EN-US
• Office Deployment Support Team Blog:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/
• Ask the Core Team Blog:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/

 Downloads

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Update 1:  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25175
• Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows® 8:  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30652
• Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation download:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh699156.aspx?ocid=wc-tn-wctc
• Windows Server 2012 Evaluation download:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574204(v=ws.11).aspx

 Apps/Store

• Deploying Metro style apps to businesses:  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/04/25/deploying-metro-style-apps-to-businesses.aspx
• How to Add and Remove Apps:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852635.aspx
• Windows Intune Company Portal:  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windowsintune/explore/byod.aspx
• Deploying Windows 8 apps using Windows Intune (new DevRadio Episode):  http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsintune/archive/2012/10/31/deploying-windows-8-apps-using-windows-intune.aspx
• Planning to Deploy Windows 8 Apps in Configuration Manager(2012 SP1):  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj822984.aspx

 SideLoading Notes

• The Windows Store is usable even for users that don’t have admin rights – they can still install apps (an operation that is always per-user).
• Enterprises can create their own private “enterprise app store” using:
  • Windows Intune, which provides a modern app self-service portal for users to select what apps they want to install.
  • System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, which provides a self-service portal web page  for users to select what apps they want to install.
  • Customers not using Windows Intune or System Center 2012 Configuration Manager can use PowerShell cmdlets (e.g. Add-AppxPackage) or DISM command lines
    to install apps in the same way that ConfigMgr and Intune do.
  • Note that installing apps from a source other than the Windows Store requires that the computer be enabled for sideloading.  That’s automatic for Windows 8 Enterprise domain-joined computers, but requires a separate sideload product key for Windows 8 Enterprise workgroup, Windows 8 Pro, or Windows RT computers. 
  • Additional information on SideLoading product key
    • MicrosoftProductList: 
      http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/DocumentSearch.aspx?Mode=3&DocumentTypeId=3
    • Windows_8_Licensing_Guide: 
      http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4/3/9439A928-A0D1-44C2-A099-26A59AE0543B/Windows_8_Licensing_Guide.pdf

You can watch a short video demo on YT: https://aka.ms/sposterpediavid

Server Posterpedia is a Windows Store app designed for Windows 8 and Windows RT that brings graphical content together with content from TechNet and MSDN. It enables you to learn about Microsoft technologies by providing deep links to Microsoft content from within a Windows Store app. Today we’re pleased to announce that Server Posterpedia v2 is available in the Windows Store. The following features are available in version 2:

• Image hotspots that allow you to get content specific to a part of the poster (new).
• Semantic zoom that enables easy navigation of the different groups (new).
• A full-screen viewing mode without the chrome and hotspots (new).
• The ability to share a link to a poster through email (new).
• App bar buttons specific to each poster.
• Technical content for Hyper-V, Active Directory, Remote Desktop Services, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2010, Windows Azure, SQL Server, Lync Server 2010, and Office 2013.

Well, not really. I know that you IT Pros already know all this, but, since you are the TechSupport/IT Department for friends/family neighbors who might be unfamiliar with touch computing as implemented in Windows 8, this tutorial will help you with visual diagrams matching text descriptions of "gestures" in Windows 8, like "swipe".

http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/support/surface-with-windows-rt/getting-started/using-touch-gestures-tap-swipe-and-beyond

This image (spitting one for grandpa Leo) is from NNN.

My confolences to his family, friends, and worldwide fans.

More than 3,000 of you have contributed around 12,000 pages of technical content that get about a million page views per month.

Congrats!

You may also be aware of new apps that are built on top of Microsoft content, such as server posterpedia and server news. Well, now the community has built a Windows 8 app on top of the wiki.

BREAKING NEWS: Technet Wiki Widget launched on Windows 8 Store!

+1, check it out. Save your own custom wiki tag searches in the app.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/10/18/a-billion-ways-to-make-a-difference.aspx

It's heeeere: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-US/app/server-posterpedia/f988071c-66dc-4281-8028-637ac0f09061

Free-as-in-beer.

This YT vid shows how it works https://youtu.be/o5tWAPWJ720. Seeing it in action explains all. You want to see it in action. Download it from the store now. Did I mention it was free as in no charge costs nothing?

Think, poster-as-table-of-contents-for-technology-information. Think "Minority Report". Think "the presentation IS the information." Think  "infographics".

Try it, you'll like it. Especially on a touch-screen.

Tell your friends, leave feedback

..."It is our nature to elaborate perception into hypotheses and then reduce those hypotheses to information upon
which we can act. It is our special adaptive device....The excess of ability/energy/skill/strength/love is expressed in species-specific ways. In goats it is leaping, in humans it is making art."

Now, judging the quality of technical writing is a tricky thing. Few folks would go so far as to call even the highest quality technical writing "art." Yet, the skills of the artist and the "technical writer" are isomorphic. Identical.  The same.

Many folks, even at Microsoft, have widely disparate ideas on the subject of measuring quality in technical writing. The subject is even more tricky. It is much trickier. The trickiness of it is greatly increased.

See?

In my career at Microsoft, I have shared many means of measuring quality in technical writing. But they have always started, and ended, with "meets or exceeds customer expectation." 

They have never involved page count, word count, or page views *as sole measures of quality writing*.

Of course, I thought I was a talented technical writer. It is what I do. The fact that I happen to get paid for it was a bonus. I did it, and worked at continuous improvement, because it mattered to the reader.

Now, it seems, not so much. For the first time in the dozen or so years I have worked at Microsoft I was given a review rating of <number I am not supposed to say, but which was well below my expectation>. One way to view this is as an opportunity for self-examination.

Have I lost my skill and ability? Gentle readers, do tell. Leave comments. Let me know how I can improve.

Many thanks in advance.  

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• Community and Microsoft resources integrated in search to help you unlock the power of Windows PowerShell.
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And it Is Free-as-in-beer. No cost. Gratis.

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