Release Notes: Important Issues in Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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Updated: February 29, 2012

Applies To: Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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These release notes address the most critical issues and information about the Windows® 8 Consumer Preview operating system. For information about by-design changes, new features, and fixes in this release, see documentation and announcements from the specific feature teams. For information you should review prior to installing this release, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=240148. Unless otherwise specified, these notes apply to all editions and installation options of Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

This document is continuously updated; as soon as such issues are reported, they will be documented here. For less serious issues and other information about this release, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=238545.

Note

Because this is a pre-release, updated drivers may not be available for all devices. If you experience driver issues, contact the appropriate OEM for the affected device for availability of updated drivers.

Authentication

  • If you set the system clock forward, Kerberos authentication may fail. To correct this, use the klist command to purge all cached tickets.

  • If the domain is configured to use dynamic access control and the primary domain controller is not running Windows Server “8” Beta, clients which present passwords that cannot be validated by any domain controller will receive a “bad password” error. To avoid this, either install Windows Server “8” Beta on the primary domain controller or change the password on a device that is not running Windows Server “8” Beta or the Windows 8 Consumer Preview before the password expires.

Storage

  • If an application consumes all of the capacity of a storage pool by writing to a thinly provisioned storage space, the application might pause indefinitely. To avoid this, ensure that you provide at least as much available pool capacity as data you that intend to store in it. If the storage pool has already become full, restart the computer, add more physical disks (drives) to the storage pool, and then continue using the storage space.

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