What's new in Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry

2/25/2014

Discover new product features and stay current on news and content updates for Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry (Industry 8.1) with the following resources:

New product features

• Assigned access
  Assigned access restricts a user account to access a single application. You can use assigned access to set up single-function devices, such as restaurant menus or displays at trade shows.

• Capture lockdown and branding features
  The Lockdown Baseline Tool (LBT) (LabBaselineGenerator.exe) captures lockdown and branding features from a reference device and puts them into a cabinet file that you can then import into System Center Configuration Manager. From Configuration Manager, you can use compliance settings to deploy the settings to multiple devices.

• Migrate from Windows Embedded 8 Industry
  This topic describes many changes to language support, security, networking, management and more to help you determine changes that you may need to make to your image if you migrate from an earlier version of Windows Embedded 8 Industry (Industry 8) to Industry 8.1.

• Toast Notification Filter
  Toast Notification Filter prevents system toast notifications from displaying in Industry 8.1.

• USB Filter
  USB Filter allows only trusted USB devices to connect to a system. USB Filter intercepts device connect requests and only allows USB devices with matching device product ID, device vendor ID, or device class ID set by administrator to be active and detectable.

• Windows System Image Manager (SIM)
  Windows SIM is a tool included with the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) that you can use to create unattended Windows Setup answer files.

New content

• The Fire Hose
  Stay up to date with even more news related to the world of intelligent systems and Windows Embedded from the news team at Microsoft.

• Windows Embedded Newsroom
  Read press releases, news articles, and other topics about Windows Embedded.

• Windows Embedded team blog
  Stay current with the rapidly evolving world of intelligent systems and industry devices. Here, you’ll find a range of voices—from engineers, business leaders and more—that spotlight product information, news and other commentary on Microsoft, Windows Embedded, and our ecosystem of Windows Embedded partners and enterprise customers.

• Industry 8.1 lockdown and branding poster
  Download the large-scale technical poster that describes how to add and configure lockdown and branding features in your Industry 8.1 operating system.

Go back to the Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry library.