What's in Windows® Server 2008 R2 for IT Administrators: A Technical Overview Part 1

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Agenda

Best Practice Analyzers

Active Directory® Improvements

Windows Server 2008 R2 Overview

Power Management Improvements

Group Policy Improvements

Windows PowerShell™ 2.0

File Classification Infrastructure

Technology Investment Areas

Hyper-V™ 2.0 Live migration Remote Desktop

Services

Virtualization

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 and integrated extensions .NET on Server Core

Configuration tracing

Service-oriented architecture

Web

Power management Active Directory Administrative Center Windows PowerShell

2.0 Best Practices

Analyzer

Management

Solid Foundation for Enterprise Workloads

DirectAccess BranchCache™ AppLocker™ Enhanced Group Policies BitLocker™ on removable drives

Better Together with Windows 7

>64 Core support

componentization

Scalability

Best Practices Analyzer

Built into Server Manager BPA is discoverable, easy to use, and provides on-demand

analysis and reporting of actual versus best practice configurations

New Feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 Goal is to reduce troubleshooting by helping proactively

manage servers to best practice configurations

Configurations Covered Active Directory® Certification Services, Active Directory Directory

Services, DNS, Remote Desktop Services, & Web Server (Internet Information Services)

Full Command-Line Support Run from the command-line through Windows

PowerShell, in addition to running from the UI

Best Practices Analyzer Process Community, support people, field teams, and customers provide

feedback, which the product teams use to create BPA models

Best Practices Analyzer

AD DS BPA Report

AD DS BPA Windows PowerShell

Script

AD DS BPA Scans Verify

DNS rules Operation master connectivity

rules Operation master ownership

rules Number of controllers in the

domain Required services rules Replication configurations rules W32time configuration rules Virtual machine configuration

rules

BPA Run Time

1AD DS BPA Rules Set

AD DS BPA Guidance

XMLSchema

XMLDocument

BPA RunTime

2

BPA Run Time

3

Best Practices AnalyzersA Tour

demo

What’s New In Active Directory

Key additions: Active Directory Administrative Center Managed Service Accounts Offline Domain Join Recycle Bin for AD

Other administrative additions: Windows PowerShell cmdlets Best Practices Analyzer Active Directory Web Services Authentication Assurance

DeletedObject

No Recycle Bin Feature

Auth Restore

Delete

LiveObject

Tombstone Object

GarbageCollection

TombstoneLifetime 180 Days

Undelete

Delete

LiveObject

RecycledObject

Deleted ObjectLifetime 180 Days

With Recycle Bin Feature

GarbageCollection

TombstoneLifetime 180 Days

Recycle Bin for AD Object Life Cycle

AD Administrative CenterA Tour

demo

Clear-EventLog Get-EventLog Limit-EventLog New-EventLog Remove-EventLog Show-EventLog Write-EventLog

Get-Service New-Service Restart-Service Resume-Service Set-Service Start-Service Stop-Service Suspend-Service

Debug-Process Get-Process Start-Process Stop-Process Wait-Service

Windows PowerShell Management

Event Viewer ProcessesServices

Active Directory

Active Directory Rights Management Services

AppLocker Background Intelligent

Transfer Service Best Practices Analyzer Failover clustering

Group Policy Internet Information Services Network load balancing Remote Desktop Services Server Manager Server migration Windows® Diagnostics

Available with Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows PowerShell 2.0

Improves productivity and control Accelerates automation of system admin Easy to use Works with model

Improved Command-Line Shell & Scripting Language

Active Directory

Administration Center Internet Information

Services Power Management One-to-many Remote

Management using WS-MGMT

Integration

Graphical PowerShell Improved security Portability New cmdlets Remote execution capability

New Features

Windows PowerShellA Tour

demo

Enhancing Power Management

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Core 1 Active

Core 4 InactiveCore 2 Inactive

Core 3 Inactive

Quad Core Processor

Core 3 Active

Core 4 ActiveCore 2 Active

Core Parking

Overview Scheduling processes on a single server for

density as opposed to dispersion This allows “park/sleep” cores by putting them

in deep C states Benefits

Enhances Green IT by reducing CPU power consumption

Group Policy PowerShell

PowerShell Scripting inside GP Extend current reach of GP Script Extension to

include PowerShell for logon/logoff, startup/shutdown scripts

PowerShell cmdlets for GPMC operations Full lifecycle: create, link, configure, rename,

backup, copy, remove Enables interesting new scenarios for

customers PowerShell cmdlets that write and read

registry settings to GPO(s) Values can be written to either Policy or

Preferences Settings can accept more value types

Group Policy Starter GPOs

Easy experience right from the start Starting off point to speed up the creation of

GPOs Embody best practices that map to Microsoft

Security Guide Eight existing:

User and computer case Available for Windows Vista and Windows XP

SP2 Enterprise Client (EC) and Specialized Security

Limited Functionality (SSLF) Ships in-box with Windows 7

Better Targeting

Robust Targeting• 29 Types• Boolean Logic

(and, or, not) collections

Intuitive UI• No need to

learn query languages

ITM Level Targeting • Not GPO level

Classify Data

Automatically apply policies according to classification

Classify Manage Report Extend (Partners)

Windows Server 2008 R2 FCI

File Classification Can Help

Need per-project share

Ensure that business-secret files do not leak out

Back up files with personal information to encrypted store

PersonalInformation Secrecy

Business Needs

IT Complexity

FCI Features

Out-of-the-box, end-to-end scenarios Extensible infrastructure and partner

ecosystem Integration with Windows® SharePoint®

Store Classificati

onProperties

Extract Classificati

onProperties

Get classification properties API for external Applications

Set classification properties API for external Applications

Discover Data

Classify Data

Apply Policy

based on Classificati

on

FCI Extensibility Points

Learn More About Windows Server 2008 R2

Technical Resources

The New Efficiency Virtual Launch Experience www.thenewefficiency.com

Windows Server 2008 R2 evaluation www.microsoft.com/ws08eval

Windows Server TechCenter http://technet.microsoft.com/windowsserver

Get Hands on Training

Training Offers—Exclusive for Launch Attendees www.microsoft.com/learning/careeroffers

Windows Server 2008 Learning Resources www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/learning.aspx

Community Resources

Windows Server Division blog http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/

Windows Virtualization Team blog http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/

Windows Server forums http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsserver

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