Windows 2012 is pretty neat. It also obviously has a reliance on Server Manager and PowerShell, however there will be times when connecting via RDP will be required. How corners in Windows 8/2012 are a little small and while this is addressed in r2 keyboard support (aka Windows keyboard short cuts) works great.
If you are like me, you don't use full screen on your RDP sessions so one little change in your client really helps out. On the Local Resources tab, set it from the default of 'Only when using the full screen' to 'On the remote computer' and all those shortcut keys will work great when you have the remote system as focus.
