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BEPS' live courses on the Windows Embedded/IoT LTSC platform are back!

Unlike phone and desktop operating systems, embedded systems do not need frequent system updates, but sometimes you have to keep up with new technologies and new features

In this last version LTSC-2021 (the last one on Windows®10), Microsoft has included some significant improvements:

• Migration from Internet Explorer to Microsoft Edge with Internet Explorer Mode

• Improved Kiosk-mode: Custom shell, Single App Kiosk, Multi App Kiosk
• Dual Application Focus: 1 PC, 2 screens, 2 set of input devices
• Soft Real-time - new scenarios for systems involving time-based control loops
• OS Disk footprint optimization
• UWF: Swapfile, Read-only-Media Mode, Full Volume Commit (like the EWF on WES7)

• And more . . .

To catch new opportunities to take advantage of these improvements, you need to keep up to date. By following our courses, you can learn in a short time what would require a considerable effort from institutional sites.

This course is organized over two days to provide all the necessary information and notions:

from the acquisition and installation of the tools, to the creation of the work environment; from the generation and cloning of the system build image, up to the in-depth analysis of the most requested topics for which we have prepared targeted workshops and LABs:

• Adding system elements directly into the image or at run-time;
• Adding device drivers of peripheral mounted on the motherboard or on other boards;
• Languages in addition to that of the main build;
• FOD (Feature on demand) and other packages not present in the standard build;
• Proprietary applications with autonomous installation kits.
• Keyboard filter management at build-time and/or at run-time level;
• Replacement of the shell with another application differentiated by user;
• Configuration and use of the disk write filter (UWF): overlay sizing and control, file and registry branch exclusions, HORM, Commit, ROM-Mode, etc.;
• Embedded features: how and when to use them;
• Windows updates: how to manage them in the field;
• The issue of licenses and activations (CLA, ePKEA, PKEA, etc..);
• System configuration tuning: the most useful policies, Sysprep, DISM and other tools.

This course will be held in Italian and will be provided by me and by other trainers all Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT) for this specific topic.

The course Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC-2021 will held:

· March Wednesday 30^th and Thursday 31^st 2023 from 9 AM to 6 PM with one hour of break for lunch (offered by BEPS)

Rate: Full price per person per day: € 600,00/day

Early Bird: (before March 17^th 2023) € 500,00/day

(Note: All prices do not include Italian VAT)

When: March 30^th /31^st 2023

Where: BEPS' Training-Room - Torino (Via Spalato, 68)

For more information write to: segreteria@bepseng.it

Also this year BEPS continues its ten-year offer of courses on the Windows Embedded / IoT platform.

With the new release of Windows® 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC-2019, updating on the technology and tools available for this platform becomes a must for all those operating in the Embedded / IoT device sector.

On September, 8 2015 at 3 PM (CET) Cesare De Siena (AVNET Embedded) and me presented a "free of charge" webinar, in Italian, entitled:

Windows 10 IoT at a glance

It is a great pleasure for me to inform you that I have started contributing to Embedded101 community.

Embedded 101 Community is the most active community in embedded environment. It was created by Samuel Phung (an Embedded Microsoft Valuable Professional with more than 10 awards).

In this community, there are many of the best eMVPs and experts and I have accepted Sam's invitation with a great pleasure. He has created for me a place in which I can publish my articles also in Italian.



On October, 2 2014 at 3 PM (CET) Cesare De Siena (AVNET Embedded) and me presented a "free of charge" webinar, in Italian, entitled:

WINDOWS EMBEDDED 8.1 Industry Pro: the "easy to use" embedded !

The number of participants was satisfactory: on average 60 with the peak at 66.

The Webinar is now available at



Are you worried about the end of support on XP PRO? Are you not sure which is the operating system that best suits your needs?



On October, 17 Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows 8.1 (for desktop) and Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry (for dedicated devices). For the first time the embedded version is released at the same time of the desktop one. This make us understand that the role of the embedded operative systems is growing up to reach the same level of the Big Windows one.

I am delighted to announce that all the eMVP in BEPS (Gianni Rosa Gallina and me) have been confirmed Microsoft MVP - Windows Embedded 2013.

I want to thank Marjorie Di Clemente, Cristina Gonzalez Herrero and all those who have contributed to this great result!

I decided to write this post when I read the official Microsoft post that announced the release of the RTM of Windows 8.1 for both Windows Desktop and Windows Embedded platforms. I have translated the English version adding some personal comments for the Italian version.

BEPS Engineering will participate at "Windows Embedded Workshops 2013" organized by Avnet Embedded & Silica in collaboration with Freescale: