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Introducing

Windows 10 for IT Professionals

Technical Overview

ED BOTT

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Contents

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Chapter 1

An overview of Windows 10

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What is Windows 10? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A new approach to updates and upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The evolution of the Windows user experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 User accounts and synchronization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Windows apps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

A new default browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

What's new for IT pros?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Greater control over updates and upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Security enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Deployment and manageability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Virtualization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chapter 2 The Windows 10 user experience

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An overview of the new Windows user experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Settings app. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Notifications and action buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Cortana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Universal apps in resizable windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Tablet Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

File Explorer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Cloud connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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Chapter 3 Installation and activation

35

Compatibility and preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Supported upgrade paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Creating and using installation media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

New rules for activation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Windows 10 installation options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Creating and managing user accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Which account type should you use? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Chapter 4 Deploying Windows 10 in the Enterprise

49

Deployment scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Enterprise deployment tools: An overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Chapter 5 Security and privacy in Windows 10

57

The evolution of the threat landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Securing hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Securing the boot process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Locking down enterprise PCs with Device Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Securing data on local storage devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Device encryption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 BitLocker Drive Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 Remote business data removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Securing identities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Blocking malware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Windows Defender. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 SmartScreen and phishing protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Managing privacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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Chapter 6 Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11

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A brief history of Internet Explorer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Browsing options in Windows 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Microsoft Edge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Configuring Enterprise Mode in Windows 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Chapter 7 Windows 10 networking

91

Wireless networking enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Making secure connections to corporate networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Managing network connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Support for IPv6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Chapter 8 Hyper-V and desktop virtualization options

103

Client Hyper-V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Desktop virtualization options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Application virtualization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

User Experience Virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Chapter 9 Recovery and troubleshooting tools

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Using Windows Recovery Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Windows 10 and push-button reset options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 The Keep My Files option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 The Remove Everything option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Troubleshooting tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Sysinternals tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Chapter 10 Integrating Azure Active Directory

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Getting started with Azure AD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Joining a Windows 10 PC to Azure AD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Adding work accounts to Windows 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

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