Chapter 7. Recovery options in Windows 8.1

Modern businesses have a mix of managed and unmanaged devices to deal with. For conventional PCs that are deployed on a site where IT staff is readily available, any hardware or software problems can usually be dealt with quickly. In the case of a device that won’t boot, you can use your deployment environment to restore a standard image and then restore the user’s environment from the network.

Unmanaged devices, or managed mobile devices that are in use on the road, pose a different set of problems. For those situations, Windows 8.1 includes a set of recovery tools ...

Get Introducing Windows 8.1 For IT Professionals now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.