TechEd 2006 Keynote Part Deux

Published Monday, June 12, 2006 1:18 AM
  • Virtual Infrastructure
    • Application virtualization technology
    • Different versions of apps running at the same time
    • Less isolation but more granularity of control
    • Acquired Softricity
  • Windows Server Virtualization Demo
    • Virtual System Manager
    • System Center Capacity planner can be used to determine the horsepower needed
    • Systems Center Operations Manager can monitor the state of the VM
      • Will monitor the virtual workload
      • Then SCOM (MOM) can auto "hot add" memory to the VM for dynamic use
      • Then it will also auto resolve and close alert based on fixing the problem
  • Vista deployment and System Center
    • Focused on ease of deployment for large environments
    • Focused on Systems Center tools for easy deployment and maintenance
    • Capabilities for Vista
      • Imaging
        • Supports image-based deployment
        • Manage the images
          • Give insight in to an image with System Image Manager
          • Flat file view in to an image
          • Mount the image as a folder to add\remove\look at data
          • Reduce the number of images needed
          • Via SIM you can add a language pack to an answer file to allow for instant language adaption for any image instead of requiring a separate image
        • How SMS 2003 today can help you deploy Vista
          • Create a collection for an inventory query to find Vista capable machines
          • SMS update this week to allow it to support Vista WIM images
          • SMS can point the image to a volume license server instead of having to enter volume license keys
          • Allows for user state data as part of the imaging migration
  • Windows Compute Cluster Server
    • Complete integrated platform for HPC (high performance computing)
    • Finance
    • Search
    • Provides an environment that is familiar to you
    • Uses AD for deployment
    • Has been released to manufacturing
    • Windows CCS demo
      • Early adaptors are doing protein folding simulations and weather pattern analysis
  • Another funny episode of "4" Chloe asks is it just me or should the CTU HR Director be fired? There's always a mole!
  • Microsoft ForeFront
    • Used in the demo to roll out patches to all the servers
    • Protect information - control access
    • When a patch is rolled out all MS clients and servers are updated within 72 hours
    • ISA Server 2006 coming
    • New Antigen product rollout
    • ForeFront
      • Complete set of security products
      • Adds client side protection
      • Adds all the current ISA, Antigen, etc
      • Security suite demo
        • Protect Information Control Access
          • Laptop running ForeFront client security
          • Scenario where a user is at an airport lounge trying to get to a secure portal
          • Presented a logon form from ISA Server 2006
          • Challenged for credentials
          • Validated to AD by ISA Server against the servers he needs access to
          • Single portal to get to IM, OWA and Sharepoint
          • Antigen blocks uploaded files based on type, not extension for Sharepoint
          • MOM can then also manage Antigen alerts
          • So protecting one mobile user is:
            • Bitlocker for the drive
            • NAP\Quarantine for the network
            • ISA for Sharepoint and OWA publishing
            • Antigen to protect the Sharepoint and Exchange servers
            • ForeFront for client AV and Firewall protection
  • Another "4" episode
  • Chloe apologizes to developers for misleading the public on 24 with bogus technology stunts - very funny
  • Bob has come back out - to wrap up? I doubt it - it is only 8:45pm!
  • Investing in capabilities
  • Visual Studio and Expressions demo
    • I don’t do a lot of work (read: none) with programming so I am not taking a ton of notes here but it is a demo of some VS features and integration with Expression Interactive Designer (EID).
    • But, the demo is on a Vista machine with full Aero Glass and it is sweet. I just love the ALT+TAB animation!!
  • Delivering on the "promise"
    • SQL\VS\BizTalk 2005 integration
  • Fourth episode of "4"
  • Moving on to Chris Capossela, PMG Information Worker
    • Focus on 3 key capabilities
      • Unified communications and collaborations
      • Enterprise content management
      • Business intelligence
        • Search - find the info, get the insight
    • Office System Roadmap
      • Four core products
        • Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
          • Big 4 _ InfoPath, Office Communicator, OneNote and Groove
        • Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
        • Exchange Server 2007
        • Office Live Communications Server 12
          • Realtime communications server
          • ETA 2007
    • Vista, Office and Exchange 2007 demo
      • Vista Beta 2
        • Sidebar
        • Office
          • Outlook
            • Reading mail and integrating presence info and voicemail and fax integrated as well as IM history
            • Email, calendar, tasks and IM all in once place
            • Also supports RSS and integrates with IE7+ RSS feeds and sidebar RSS engine
            • Using Exchange 2007 to introduce unified messaging
            • Can take audio notes
            • Listen to VM from Outlook; can add notes and then the Vm is searchable!
            • Outlook voice access; dial in and listen to email as well as compose emails and appointments from the phone
          • Integrated desktop search
          • PowerPoint features
          • Demos another version of Vista ALT+TAB
          • Sharepoint looks in to AD and sorts by "social distance to me" based on the ORG structure and AD information
          • Also sets up a new kind of MySite for your users showing all kinds of aggregated information like shared projects, distribution lists, etc.
          • Also supports MySite blogging
          • PowerPoint now offers a auto feature to scrub presentations of comments and notes before releasing to the public
          • BitLocker in Vista
          • USB thumb drive protection via Vista
            • Using a group policy to block the USB drive
            • Allow encrypted thumb drives, etc.
          • Collaboration
            • Around mobile devices
            • Mobile device running next version of windows mobile
            • Open an email with a link to a sharepoint
            • Once the new versions of Sharepoint, Exchange and ISA are together you can open Sharepoint links from an email and follow it on a mobile device without a VPN
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