The Road from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2

1. WSV327 The Road from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 Ken Brumfield | Premier Field Engineer kenbrumf@microsoft.com Ward Ralston| Group Product Manager wardr@microsoft.com Microsoft Corporation

2. Session Objectives and Takeaways • Session Objective(s): • Be able to Tell the Story of Windows Server Advances from W2K3 to W2K8 R2 • Understand the Key Server Workloads that drive value • Understand how the industry has shifted. • Understand how improvements reduce cost and drive stability • Identify new features that the industry is asking for • What this Session is Not • A technical listing of all of the new features since Windows Sever 2003

3. Who We Are Ken Brumfield Premier Field Engineer Ward Ralston Group Product Manager • At Microsoft 6 years • Lead for Windows Server outbound marketing in the Enterprise • Works closely with dev team bringing server to market and developing new versions • Contributed/edited numerous documents/whitepapers/exams published through various Microsoft sites • Will never do another book/course • A+, Networking+, Security+, CCNA, MCP, MCP+I, MCSA, MCSE (NT,W2k,03/08), MCT, CISSP • Is the ‘Marketing Guy’ • Worked at Microsoft 8 years • Dedicated to large 500,000 seat Active Directory Deployment for the last 4 years • 4 years Transactional PFE • Runs several open source projects for AD support tools • Co-Author HP ASE study guide • Contributed/edited numerous documents/whitepapers published through various Microsoft sites • Is the ‘Technical Guy’

4. Objective 1 • Tell The Story You are Here

5. “Futures Blitz” Customer Findings

6. “Futures Blitz” Customer Findings

7. Help Me Understand My EstateSelected Customer Requirement Statements “Centrally monitor, audit and report on all aspects of my network including network usage, health, and resource utilization in real-time” “Easily manage and report on anything in my enterprise from a single console” “Ability to assign certain admin rights to specific users, and enable key stroke capturing to track what admins are doing on a server” “Easily manage desktop OS and applications from a central point” “The ability of the OS to detect and report on critical issues and have it proactively begin the support process” “Monitor and analyze system performance from a single dashboard, quickly identify problems or misbehaving applications, and assist with troubleshooting”

8. Enable Continuous AvailabilitySelected Customer Requirement Statements “Disaster "survivability" with cross location survival” “Quickly deploy OS, patches, and services without any impact to service availability” “Automatically restore services and provide business continuity without data loss in seconds” “Enable fast recovery from disaster especially enabling easy restoration of large data volumes” “Backup efficiently and centrally with a smaller footprint at a central location, backing up all services and resources; intelligent backup based on a changed delta threshold”

9. Directory ServicesSelected Customer Requirement Statements • Federation “Use credentials from any source (business partner, cloud, other forest) for seamless access to any resources or applications, with minimal administrative overhead” “Use external identities to grant access to my resources and use my identities to gain access to external resources, while exposing the minimum amount of data needed.” • Auditing/Reporting/Compliance “Standardized infrastructure and tools for AD standards enforcements and usage reporting” “Easily and securely delegate access to anything in my forest”

10. Directory ServicesSelected Customer Requirement Statements • Virtualization “Easily deploy and operate DS in a virtualized environment while supporting all common virtualization technologies like snapshots and migration, without any risk to DS stability” • Health “Quickly and easily detect and report on the health of my AD and LDS infrastructure” “Quickly determine root cause of problems in my environment and identify steps to resolution” “Report on the overall health of the end-to-end service, not just the individual box”

11. Directory ServicesSelected Customer Requirement Statements • Management “Lower the cost of maintaining the AD service, patch/reboot as little as possible and have no user or application impact when you do.” “Easily script account management including attributes of other Microsoft and 3rd-party products (i.e. Exchange)” • Backup/Restore “Easily recover from forest/domain failure or data loss at an object and attribute level.” • Virtual Directory “Present multiple views of objects in the directory”

12. We Continue Developing Future Value Now Emerging Nascent Speculative • Regulatory compliance • Standards • Operational efficiency • Mobile workforce • In-house IT • Out-sourcing • Off-shoring • Privacy • Legacy systems • Exponential data growth • Consolidation • Multi-core • Thinking green • Massive cheap HDDs • Smaller Solid State Disks • Cloud-based storage • Virtualization is mainstream • Pervasive wireless • Plethora of devices • Many-core • Software as a Service • Redundant data centers • Going green • Consolidated data center fabric • Fungible servers • Mix of on & off premise infrastructure • Ubiquitous computing • Persistant sessions • Network de-perimiterization • Physical is unusual vs. virtualized • Massive Parallelism • Network latency close to on system • Being green • Everything is a server • Everything is virtualized • No more local servers • Utility computing • Cloud OS • Global ID • Turning green?

13. Objective 2 You are Here

14. Power MultiMany-core 64-Bit Industry Shifts Virtualization

15. 64-Bit Technology Ready for Prime Time = 256 Cores 4 GB 2 TB

16. b Defense in Depth Strategy Malicious behavior of unknown threat prevented Known threat detected and neutralized No vulnerability to exploit Advanced updating Recognized attack Defeated at machine edge Protected Hosts Attacker Malware Behavior Blocking Windows Client Protector Antivirus Anti-Spyware Machine Hygiene IPSec NAP Secure Net Host Firewall

17. Premier Generated CHIP Report • Customer Health Improvement Program Review

18. Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policyhttp://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/ Mainstream Support: Incident Support (no-charge incident support, paid incident support, support charged on an hourly basis) Security update support The ability to request non-security hotfixes • Extended Support: • All paid incident support options • Security update support at no additional cost • Non-security related hotfix support requires a separate Extended Hot Fix Support contract to be purchased. Per-fix fees also apply • Microsoft will not accept requests for design changes, or new features during the Extended support phase Microsoft will offer a minimum of 10 years support (5 years of Mainstream support and 5 years of Extended) for Business and Developer products. Microsoft will offer a minimum of 3 years of Mainstream support for products that are released annually, for example, Money, Encarta, Picture It!, and Streets & Trips. Microsoft will offer a minimum of 5 years of Mainstream support for Consumer, Hardware, Multimedia products, and the Microsoft Business Solutions products.

19. Objective 3 You are Here

20. Feature Requests That Contribute to Reduced TCO • Efficiently Deploy Services • Understand My Estate • Allow create/deploy in a granular fashion • Continuously optimize power consumption

21. Server TCO Breakdown Source: IDC, 2007. Three Year Server TCOwww.microsoft.com/getthefacts

22. Server Infrastructure Costs • Patch Management • 63% of surveyed companies identified this as one of their biggest management challenges • Resource Utilization • 60% of surveyed companies identified this as one of their biggest management challenges • Maintenance Costs • 44% of surveyed companies identified this as one of their biggest management challenges • Server Sprawl • 42% of surveyed companies identified this as one of their biggest management challenges Studies have also found that server utilization is at an all-time low of 8% average and trending down

23. Core IO Levels of Maturity • Reactive • Stable IT • Request Driven • Change Management and Planning • “Keeping ItRunning” • Knowledge Capture • Proactive • Accountable • Increased Monitoring • Formal ChangeManagement • SLA’s • Improvement • Predictability • “Quality Driven” • Knowledge Captured and Reused • Reactive • Ad hoc • Problem-Driven • “AvoidingDowntime” • Knowledge Not Captured • Proactive • OptimizingCosts and Quality • Agile • Self Assessingand ContinuousImprovement • “Taking The Lead” • Knowledge Capture and Use Automated Basic Standardized Rationalized Dynamic

24. Significant Cost Saving Opportunity for Server Management Automation • Opportunity to use same tools and practices from desktop management in server environment • Automated Server Deployment • Automated Patch • Automated Back and restore • Research shows opportunity to save an average of $2160 per server per year • Average automation practice adoption is only 30% • Automated server management not widely adopted Data derived from Microsoft “Spotlight on Cost” Server Study 2009 Automation | Optimization | Simplification

25. Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Knowledge Capture/Use • Includes Best Practice Analyzers (BPA) for every role • Majority of costs for production outages comes from administration. Either configuration errors or “point and click”/”typo” mistakes • BPAs include checks for configuration states that are known to cause issues. • Windows Troubleshooting Platform • Provides ISVs, OEMs, and administrators the ability to write troubleshooting packs that are used to discover and resolve issues found on the computer • Windows 7 and 2008 R2 only • Fix It Center • Fix It Center scans your device to diagnose and repair problems, then gives you the option to "Find and fix" or to "Find and report” • Automates tracking of fixes/changes implemented • Windows Client Only

26. Core IO • Identity and Access Management • Desktop, Device, and Server Management • Security and Networking • Data Protection and Recovery • Security Process • ITIL/COBIT-Based Management Process

27. Capability: Desktop, Device and Server Management Moving from Basic to Standardized • Standard Images • Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) • Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) • Automated Patch Distribution (Desktop/Laptop) • Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) • System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) • Software Update Management • Software Distribution • Identity Validation, Data Protection, and Data Backup of Mobile Devices • Bitlocker and Bitlocker-To-Go

28. Capability: Desktop, Device and Server Management Moving from Standardized to Rational • Automated Patch Distribution (Servers) • Automated OS Distribution • Windows Deployment Services (WDS) • System Center Configuration Manager • Operating System Deployment Feature • System Center Virtual Machine Manager • Automated Tracking of Hardware and Software • System Center Configuration Manager • Asset Intelligence • Hardware Inventory • Software Metering • Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit • Server Consolidation and Virtualization • Hyper-V

29. Capability: Desktop, Device and Server Management Moving from Rational to Dynamic • Automated Infrastructure Capacity Planning • System Center Capacity Planner • Virtualization to Dynamically Move Workloads from Server to Server • System Center Virtual Machine Manager – Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)

30. Comparison of Basic and Standardized Email environment costs Standardized Example Basic Example • 20,000 Users • 4,500 Users • 1.62 ITE for Workload • 1.3 ITE for Workload • 15 Servers • 4 Servers • 9.29 Servers per ITE • 2.89 Servers per ITE • 7 Best Practices • 3 Best Practices • $11,872 Cost per Server • $38,160 Cost per Server • $8.90 Cost per User • $33.92 Cost per User Some Differentiating Best Practices Standardized software imaging for new deployments Standardized imaging for operating-system maintenance Planned operating-system maintenance

31. Collaboration Server IO Workload

32. Best Practices to Reduce Operational CostsEmail Workload Standardized Practices Rationalized/Dynamic Practices Reduction in IT Labor Cost per Server Adoption of Best Practice

33. Continuously Optimize Power Consumption • “No more than 10% of all enterprise PCs in use have their power management capabilities turned on today”U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Estimates • Improvements in Out-Of-The-Box Power Consumption • System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2 – Windows Power Management PackEnables you to monitor and manage the power consumption of computers running Windows Server 2008 R2 • System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 (in Beta)Allows for basic power management at the enterprise level

34. Power Savings & Enhancements Power • 10-15% Power Savings over Windows Server 2003 • ~63W Xeon 55xx Series

35. Objective 4 You are Here

36. Feature Requests That Contribute to Increased Value • Continuous Availability • Enable Seamless Access Across Boundaries • Write and Run Any Application

37. Continuous Availability Clustering Improvements • Multi-Site Clusters • Cluster shared volumes – multi-tenancy VHD disk access • Live Migration for Hyper-V • Now can cluster DFS Replication Targets • Cluster RDP Connection Session Broker • Improved existing and added new validations and migration options

38. Seamless Access Across Boundaries • Enabling a remote workforce • Client Connectivity • DirectAccess • Branch Cache • Improvements in client side Offline Files • Desktop Virtualization • Virtualized Desktop Initiative (VDI) • Session Virtualization • Terminal Services  Remote Desktop Services • Identity Management • Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS)

39. Write and Run Any Application • Application Virtualization • Med-V – Run applications on older versions of Windows platform • Windows 2000 SP4 • Windows XP SP3 • App-V – Run conflicting versions of an application • AppFabric– Write the application once, run it on a server in the data center and move to cloud.

40. Objective 4 You are Here

41. Track Resources Best Practices to Reduce IT Operational Costs - Server Infrastructure Optimization (IDC) http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/B/9/EB962D65-2EE9-4B9A-A16F-71BABA50541C/CoreIOCostBestPracticesServer.pdf Microsoft and Intel: Innovations in Hardware and Software to Help Deliver New Technology Experienceshttp://intel.com/go/idfsessions How Windows Server Reduces TCOhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/linux/windows-server-tco.mspx Infrastructure Optimizationhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496510.aspx Delivering Business Value by Optimizing your IT Investments http://www.microsoft.com/optimization/default.mspx

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