TechEd 2006 Keynote Part Deux

• 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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