windows vista and desktop optimisation pack for schools

Windows Vista and Desktop Optimisation Pack for Schools

Sydney, March 28th 2007

Colin Howes – Government Strategy Advisor

Danny Beck, Senior Enterprise Product Marketing Manager

Windows Vista Product Guide

For the most comprehensive

and in-depth feature-by-feature

guide to Windows Vista

www.microsoft.com/windowsvista

A New Education Environment

Find, use, share –Create and inspire

Proliferationof form factorsand networks

Knowledgeassets

Reduce costs

Need to keep systems

up and running

Team collaboration

Protection againstthreats

Windows Vista User Experience: Get More Done

Easily

Smart Information Management Visualizing information, virtual folders

Fast enterprise-class distributed search

View Web content on the desktop

Streamlined User Experience Designed to scale with hardware

Enhanced user productivity

Modern, clean, professional look

Cascading windows organise visually

Student and Classroom Utilities

Managing Your Media and Digital Photos Rich tools to import, edit, manage, photos, pictures,

videos, movies, including HDV Built in editing capabilities of your video and photos Easy acquisition of photos and video New Photo Gallery feature to view, find and share your

digital memories

Calendars Student Diary Yearly Planner School Events

Improved Inking for UMPC, Tablets Training Wizard Education Pack for TabletPC

Enabling All Learners: Accessibility in Windows Vista™

Ease of Access Center provides a centralised location for quick access to adjust accessibility

settings and manage assistive technology programs.

Making it Easier to Write and Understand

Speech Recognition enables interaction with a computer using only voice while maintaining, or

even increasing productivity.

Microsoft Narrator is a text-to-speech program that reads aloud on-screen text and describes

user alerts like error messages.

On-Screen Keyboard with all the standard keys that students can use in place of a physical

keyboard. Spelling and grammar control and tools.

Visualise Tasks

Microsoft Magnifier makes it easy to enlarge on screen items.

Visual Notifications allow users to replace systems sounds with visual cues, such as a flash on

the screen.

Ribbon

Magnifier Preview Narrator Spelling & GrammerSpeech Recognition

Is this site legitimate?

www.ebay.com

Student/Teacher Collaboration

PC-To-PC Sync

Windows Meeting Space

Project any file or application

Share files easily and securely

Edit a file jointly

Work together when a network is not available

Collaborate with partners, customers in meetings

Desktop Optimisation Pack

for Schools

Danny Beck

Take Control of Your IT DesktopDanny Beck

Senior Enterprise Product Marketing Manager - Windows

Brisbane, March 22nd

Desktop Management Framework & Challenges

Scenario Experience

Application Compatibility Accelerate Deployment

Make compatibility testing fast and painless

Improve PC Manageability (drive down total

cost of ownership in the desktop/OS)

Simplify corporate image management

Enables anytime, anywhere secured access

to applications

Helps lock down desktops

Diagnostics and Help Desk Simplify problem resolution and tracking

Helps prevent future issues

Improve recovery time and functionality

Protect data lost/stolen Protect sensitive data and intellectual property

Make PC‟s safe to use anywhere/anytime Ensure virus free environment

Lock down desktops

Software Asset Management Monitor usage and ensure deployment policy

compliance

Enable real time tracking of software use

The IT Departments “Pain”

1. Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualsation

2. Microsoft Asset Inventory Services

3. Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset

4. Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management

The New Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack

A complete set of virtualisation products – from the data centre to the desktop

Presentation Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Desktop Virtualization

Application Virtualization

Microsoft‟s Virtualisation Offerings

Reduce Total Cost of OwnershipChallenge: underutilization, power &

space

Solution: server consolidation via server & application virtualization

Challenge: application incompatibility and testing

Solution: eliminate incompatibilities and testing via desktop and app virtualization

Why Virtualise?

Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualisation

Applications are virtualised per instance

Files (including system files)

Registry

Fonts

.ini

COM objects

Application do not get installed or alter the

operating system

Tasks do process locally on the host computer

Inter-application communication can still take

place

demonstration

Why Microsoft SoftGrid for Education?

Ensuring that faculty, staff and students

have the applications they need is critical to

offering quality education.

It is also extremely challenging to do in a

secure, cost-effective and efficient manner.

IT departments in educational institutions

face difficult challenges:

Why Microsoft SoftGrid for Education?

Meet back to school deadlines through easy

deployment

Remote user support across dispersed

locations

Supporting multiple application versions

Cleaning up Student PC‟s

Anywhere, anytime access – mobile users

Reduce IT department management costs

Software Asset Inventory Management

What the heck is abc.exe?

Do I care?

Do I have to pay for it?

Wait a minute – I see abc.exe on my

system, but is it an OEM copy, FPP, VL

Upgrade, Academic?

Okay – I think I know what abc.exe is – but

how many licenses do I own and how many

does my vendor think I have paid for?

The Asset & License Management Challenge

Asset Inventory Service Value

AssetMetrix Research Labs

Extensive Knowledge Base

430,000 software titles

98% of all commercial S/W apps categorized

300+ reports

No agent/server infrastructure required

Software as a Service

No touch scanning

Microsoft Asset Inventory ServicesTranslating software inventory into business intelligence

Translates inventory data into useful information

Efficient scanning without impacting machines

430,000 S/W titles

Understand license types (eg: OEM, FPP, VL, Academic, Upgrades etc…)

Simplify compliance

Enables compliance against key industry standards

Simplify machine restoration by understanding software on each machine

Easily administered service

Inventory data is securely hosted by Microsoft

Secure browser based reports are encrypted via SMTP or HTTP

No client & server software installation

demonstration

Microsoft Diagnostics & Recovery Toolset

Accelerate desktop management and responsiveness

Recover instead of reloading Windows

Make PC‟s safe to use

Remove malware from infected systems

Boots unstable or unbootable systems so you can

Diagnose and repair

Safely recover deleted files

Edit the Windows registry

Access unbootable machines via the network

Microsoft Diagnostics & Recovery Toolset

Repair Systems, Recover Data, and Diagnose Issues

Service and Driver Manager File Sharing/Map Network Drive

Regedit System Restore

Disk Management Hot fix Uninstall

Event Log File Restore

Computer Management Crash Analyzer Wizard

System Info Locksmith

Command Prompt Disk Commander

Search Disk Wipe

The Tools

to improve change and configuration management

Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management

MMC extensions to GPMC

Full change management for Group Policy

Role based delegation

Offline editing

Check in/Check out

Historical track of changes

Deployment process

Roll back and Roll forward

Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management

1. Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualsation

2. Microsoft Asset Inventory Services

3. Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset

4. Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management

The New Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack

Windows Vista Enterprise helps reduce TCO and improve security.

MDOP accelerates

deployment and increases

manageability

Microsoft System Center is a family of leading IT management solutions that help proactively manage IT environments

The Optimised Microsoft Desktop Solution

What Next?

Contact Your Microsoft Partner for pricing

Check out www.softricity.com

Check out www.assetmetrix.com

Check out www.winternals.com

Check out www.desktopstandard.com

Check out www.microsoft.com/vista

Appendix

Find out more about Windows Vista

About Windows Vista:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista

About Office System 2007:

http://www.microsoft.com/office

Try Office System 2007:

http://australia.trymicrosoftoffice.com/

About Windows desktop deployment:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/desktopdeployment

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/desktopdeployment

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=47792

Learn more online with our Webcasts:

http://www.microsoft.com/webcasts

Hardware Requirements: Modern CPUs

LevelWindows Vista Premium Ready

PC

Windows Vista Minimum System

Requirements

Processor1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64)

processor

800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64)

processor

System

Memory1 GB 512 MB

GPU Windows Aero Capable SVGA (800x600)

Graphics

Memory128 MB --

HDD 40 GB 20 GB

HDD free

space15 GB 15 GB

Optical drive DVD-ROM drive CD-ROM drive

OtherAudio output capability.

Internet access capability.--

“Modern CPUs” as published in the Vista Enterprise Planning

Desktop Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 600 sequence or 500 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology Intel® Pentium® D processor (Dual Core) Intel® Celeron® D processor AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core processor AMD Athlon™ 64 FX processor AMD Athlon™ 64 processor AMD Sempron™ processor

Mobile Intel® Pentium ® M processor (Single Core) Next Generation Intel® Mobile Processor („Yonah‟ Dual Core and Single Core) Intel® Celeron® M processor AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology Mobile AMD Sempron™ Processor Mobile AMD Athlon 64™ Processor

Workstations Intel® Xeon™ processor with 2MB L2 cache 3.00 GHz or higher Next Generation Intel® Xeon™ processor („Dempsey‟) AMD Opteron™ processor Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor

Contact IHVs for additional information

Source: Intel, AMD

Differentiated Feature Home Basic Home Premium Business Enterprise Ultimate

Security and Perf. Enhancements

Search and Organise

P2P Meeting Space Join Only

Scheduled and Networked Backup

Aero glass, animations and visuals

Media Center (including extender)

HD MovieMaker and DVD authoring

Network Projection

PC to PC Sync

Mobility (Tablet, Aux Display)

Encrypted File System Read

Remote Desktop

Web Server

Fax and scanning utility

Domain Join

Offline folders

Group Policy

SUA (Unix Subsystem)

Full Volume Encryption

Virtual PC Express * *

MUI -All Languages * *

Windows Ultimate Extras *

*Available separately for free for these SKUs only

Windows Vista™ Feature Differentiation At A Glance

Windows Vista Enterprise for Education

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