{"id":154,"date":"2014-07-08T13:18:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T12:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/?p=154"},"modified":"2014-07-08T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T12:21:55","slug":"windows-8-1-in-the-lrc-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/2014\/07\/08\/windows-8-1-in-the-lrc-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1 in the LRC-to-be &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Well,\u00a0it&#8217;s not quite there. But I&#8217;m looking at using the available Windows 8.1 images that the busy ISS (Information Systems and Services) Infrastructure Team have been beavering away developing. This has meant quite a bit of a re-engineering of our language\u00a0software programs to make use of the Windows 8.1 Apps screen to order them in a (fairly)\u00a0consistent way, by language category.<\/p>\n<p>At present, there\u00a0is no way within Active Directory Group Policy settings to auto-create or modify Apps Categories and assign existing software to them. I\u00a0suspect this will come as a later Microsoft feature.<\/p>\n<p>The screenshot below shows how I&#8217;ve ordered some of our software into the Windows 8.1 Apps screen view. The Start screen picture has been included to show a bit of how central ISS have customised\u00a0its look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win_apps2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-155\" alt=\"Windows 8.1 Apps\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win_apps2-300x168.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win_apps2-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win_apps2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win_apps2-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win_apps2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win8_start_scr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-156\" alt=\"win8_start_scr\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win8_start_scr-300x168.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win8_start_scr-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win8_start_scr-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win8_start_scr-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2014\/07\/win8_start_scr.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Well,\u00a0it&#8217;s not quite there. But I&#8217;m looking at using the available Windows 8.1 images that the busy ISS (Information Systems and Services) Infrastructure Team have been beavering away developing. This has meant quite a bit of a re-engineering of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/2014\/07\/08\/windows-8-1-in-the-lrc-to-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-deployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}