WTG supports BitLocker which is great; USB sticks are easy to lose and losing a WTG stick would be like losing your laptop. That\u2019s bad if the thing is unencrypted. With BitLocker you have protected the OS and data on the stick so the only pain is the pain of losing an expensive USB 3.0 stick.<\/p>\n
Hardware Requirements For Windows To Go<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The machine that will boot from Windows To Go must have a USB 3.0 port. <\/p>\n The USB 3.0 stick must be one of the supported devices<\/a>. One of those is made by Kingston, and I\u2019m lucky enough to have their WTG device in my possession \u2013 I work for a Kingston distributor.<\/p>\n Setting Up Windows To Go<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Insert your USB 3.0 stick. Next you need to supply a Windows 8 Enterprise image, which can be:<\/p>\n Go into the I\u2019ve selected my Kingston DT Ultimate device as the destination for the image deployment. Notice the warning? I\u2019m building the image on my PC, and it does not have a USB 3.0 port. That\u2019ll slow down the image deployment, but I need a USB 3.0 port to boot this thing up reliably. The second USB in my example is my Windows 8 Enterprise installer.<\/p>\n Now pick an image to deploy on the USB 3.0 stick:<\/p>\n Now you can turn on and configure BitLocker to encrypt the USB 3.0 stick:<\/p>\n Now you can go ahead and create the stick!<\/p>\n Eventually the wizard finishes. You now have the option of rebooting your machine to boot up using the USB 3.0 stick. Remember that your machine must be configured to boot from USB 3.0.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And that\u2019s it! Your stick is prepared.<\/p>\n Booting Up Windows To Go<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Pop the USB 3.0 stick into the USB 3.0 port of the machine you want to boot up on. Power up the machine. In the case of my UX31, I press <ESC> to bring up a boot menu and select the Kingston USB 3.0 stick.<\/p>\n Enter the BitLocker password to access the device and then answer any setup questions.<\/p>\n My machine boots up in 12 seconds flat with WTG on the Kingston USB 3.0 device. BTW, the stick gets HOT. I\u2019m told that it is a real SSD inside the stick.<\/p>\n The Windows Store<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Open it in WTG and you\u2019ll be told that:<\/p>\n Windows Store isn\u2019t available on Windows To Go workspaces<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n According to TechNet:<\/p>\n Apps licensed through the store are linked to hardware for licensing. Since Windows To Go is designed to roam to different host PCs access to the store is disabled. You can enable the store if your Windows To Go workspaces won\u2019t be roaming to multiple PC hosts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n USB 3.0 is portable between devices and therefore the Store is disabled.<\/p>\n You can override this behaviour to enable the Windows Store using Local Group Policy<\/a>. <\/p>\n If you want to enable the Windows Store in your Windows To Go workspace then the policy<\/a> you want to edit is Allow Store To Install Apps On Windows To Go Workspaces which is found at \\Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsStore. Enable this setting, and run GPUPDATE \/FORCE to apply the GPO.<\/p>\n Although your WTG stick will be portable, the apps won\u2019t be because they are licensed by the Store to the PC that the stick is in when they are installed. Therefore<\/a>:<\/p>\n Apps purchased from the Store are bound to the host PC’s hardware, using Windows To Go on another host PC will cause all the apps purchased from the Store to be disabled. Line of business apps that are side-loaded and default Windows Store apps will continue to work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n And:<\/p>\n If you are not going to enable the use of the Store on your Windows To Go workspace, we recommend that you remove the default Windows Store apps that come with the Enterprise image since you won\u2019t be able to update the default apps unless you turn on the Store.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This might<\/em> be nicer if the apps were licensed to the storage that they are on instead of the tin \u2026 but that would then cause a problem if you were replacing the storage in your machine. I guess Microsoft had to do something and this was probably the best approach.<\/p>\n Enterprise Deployment<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n System Center 2012 Configuration Manager with SP1 will support<\/a> Windows To Go.<\/p>\n You can use AD GPO to manage the Windows Store.<\/p>\n Windows To Go (WTG) is a new feature for Windows 8 Enterprise edition (the edition of Windows 8 that is available to customers with Software Assurance, e.g. OVS or Windows Intune) that allows you to install Windows 8 Enterprise on a USB 3.0 stick. 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