Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 8.1

This post it's just to remember everyone using RSAT on Windows 8 that after upgrading you'll need to install the new RSAT 8.1.

Just download it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39296

VCE - Building the Vblock Infrastruture Platform - Part 2

Here's the part 2 of Build the Vblock Infrastruture Platform from VCE.
In this short video it's showed the customer installation on it's datacenter.

VCE - Building the Vblock Infrastruture Platform - Part 1

Here's Part 1 of a comprehensive video about how VCE builds the Vblock Infrastruture Platform.
VBlock IP it's a converged infrastruture that allows customers to select preconfigured and integrated solutions with predictable units of power, weight, cooling and geometry for datacenters.

Vblock systems consist of storage from EMC, switches and servers from Cisco and also VMware virtualization software.

Eliminating Long File Paths from Command Line

I was struggling here trying to delete 2 folders that contained an enormous number of subfolders and I was always getting a "too deep folder" or "file to long" errors.

After some search and testing here's a nice, very nice solution for doing it from command line with Robocopy:

• Create an empty folder (ex.: D:\Empty)
• robocopy /purge D:\Empty D:\longfoldername

And it's done! :)

Windows 8 - What IT Pros Should Know

Just to share a nice roundtable from Microsoft Technet about some features Windows 8 has that can help you get more of this O.S. and using it to improve, virtualization, deployment, security and devices.

Take a look here:

Windows 8 - Talking About with Stephen Rose

Here's a nice Channel 9 webcast about Windows 8 Enterprise with Stephen Rose.
This webcast called "Windows 8: The No Compromise Business Devices" approaches the following subjects:

• New User Interface Concerns
• What about the Start button?
• Will my Windows 7 applications work on Windows 8?
• Surface / Windows RT and Surface Pro - what's the difference?
• Why is a Windows 8 tablet a better choice for businesses than an iPad or Android-based tablet?

Get more info here:
Channel 9 - Windows 8: The No Compromise Business Devices

Windows To Go - Overview

Here's something that didn't give a lot of buzz, in my opinion because mainly it's intended for enterprises only  and because most of the enterprises didn't adopt this O.S., but it's a good showcase about how light and flexible Windows 8 can get.

Windows To Go is an enterprise feature of Windows 8 that enables the creation of a Windows to Go workspace that can be booted from a USB external drive on PC that meet the Windows 7 or Windows 8 certification requirements.

There are some consideration about this feature:

• Internal disks are offline to protect and adverted deletion of the physical machine
• You can use the capabilities of TPM
• Hibernation is disable by default
• App Store not available 

You can take a more deep look to this Microsoft Windows 8 feature here:

Technet - Windows To Go: Feature Overview