Windows Server 2012 features

Re:Windows Server 2012 features by macavity23 on Thursday January 10, 2013 @08:23AM (#5036687)

Oddly, "Modern UI" (ie Metro) isn't in this list. Surely that's what every server admin needs, no?

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Re:Windows Server 2012 features by obituary_latte on Thursday January 10, 2013 @09:38AM (#5037027)

Yeah, nothing beats trying to hover over a corner to get to the start menu in the midst of a panicked admin session...

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Re:Windows Server 2012 features by ghurlman on Thursday January 10, 2013 @09:42AM (#5037048)

The reason for not knowing the proper keyboard shortcut might also explain why this is a "panicked" session.

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Re:Windows Server 2012 features by itgoon on Thursday January 10, 2013 @10:02AM (#5037162)

The keyboard shortcuts don't work in a less-than-fullscreen terminal server session. That's where a lot of my admin work happens, and having to hover over that corner sucks.

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Re:Windows Server 2012 features by joenathan on Thursday January 10, 2013 @10:54AM (#5037557)

Keyboard shortcuts like Alt+Home(Start Screen) and Ctrl+Alt+End(=Ctrl+Alt+Del) should still work.

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Re:Windows Server 2012 features by OldLikeDos on Thursday January 10, 2013 @11:45AM (#5037955)

That only appears to work through one level. Right now I'm remote-desktoping a physical computer and have a Hyper-V VM open on that. Alt+Home will pass through to the VM only if the remote-desktop session to the host is full-screen.

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Re:Windows Server 2012 features by obituary_latte on Thursday January 10, 2013 @11:09AM (#5037664)

Or perhaps keyboard shortcuts don't work so well when accessing the server via vSphere Client console running in an RDP session.

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