The Road from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2Ken Brumfield | Premier Field Engineerkenbrumf@microsoft.com

Ward Ralston| Group Product Managerwardr@microsoft.com

Microsoft Corporation

WSV327

Session Objectives and TakeawaysSession Objective(s):

Be able to Tell the Story of Windows Server Advances from W2K3 to W2K8 R2Understand the Key Server Workloads that drive value

Understand how the industry has shifted.Understand how improvements reduce cost and drive stabilityIdentify new features that the industry is asking forWhat this Session is Not

A technical listing of all of the new features since Windows Sever 2003

Who We AreKen BrumfieldPremier Field Engineer

Ward RalstonGroup Product Manager

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’

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’

Objective 1

Tell The Story

Tell the story

Industry Drivers

Reducing TCO

Increasing Business

valueResources

You are Here

“Futures Blitz” Customer Findings

21 23 25 27 29 31 330

50

100

150

200

250

Define, Audit & Enforce Data Policies

Efficiently Deploy Services

Enable Continuous Availability of OS, Applications and Data

Keep Private Data Private and Privacy Choices Transparent

Licensing Makes Business Sense

Enable Seamless Access Across Boundaries

Location Independent Dy-namic Resource Allocation

Help Me Understand My Es-tate

Write and Run Any Applica-tions

Sync Hardware and Software

Continuously optimize power consumption

Allow me to create and deploy in a granular fash-

ion

Customer Priority

Value Satisfaction Gap

Coun

t of R

equi

rem

ents

Sync Hardware and Software

Write and Run Any Applications

Continuously optimize power consumption

Enable Seamless Access Across Boundaries

Licensing Makes Business Sense

Keep Private Data Private and Privacy Choices Transparent

Define, Audit & Enforce Data Policies

Allow me to create and deploy in a granular fashion

Location Independent Dynamic Resource Allocation

Help Me Understand My Estate

Enable Continuous Availability of OS, Applications and Data

Efficiently Deploy Services

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Normalized Priority

“Futures Blitz” Customer Findings

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

We Continue Developing Future Value

• Everything is a server• Everything is

virtualized• No more local servers• Utility computing• Cloud OS• Global ID• Turning green?

Speculative

• 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

Nascent

• 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

Emerging

• 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

Now

Tell the story

Industry Drivers

Reducing TCO

Increasing Business

valueResources

Objective 2

You are Here

Industry Shifts

VirtualizationMulti

Many-core

64-Bit Power

4 GB 2 TB

64-Bit Technology Ready for Prime Time

= 256 Cores

b

Defense in Depth Strategy

IPSec MachineHygiene

BehaviorBlockingWindows

Client Protector Antivirus Anti-Spyware

Defeated at machine edge

Recognizedattack

No vulnerabilityto exploit

Malicious behavior of unknown threat prevented

Known threatdetected and

neutralized

ProtectedHosts

AttackerMalware

HostFirewall

Advanced updating

NAPSecure

Net

Premier Generated CHIP Report

Customer Health Improvement Program Review

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 supportThe ability to request non-security hotfixes

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.

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

Tell the story Industry Drivers Reducing TCO Increasing Business value Resources

Objective 3

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Feature Requests That Contribute to Reduced TCOEfficiently Deploy ServicesUnderstand My EstateAllow create/deploy in a granular fashionContinuously optimize power consumption

Server TCO Breakdown

Staffing costs: management &

maintenance60%

Downtime: user productivity

15%

IT staff training8%

Server hardware7%

Software costs7%

Outsourced costs3%

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

Server Infrastructure CostsPatch Management63% of surveyed companies identified this as one of their biggest management challengesResource Utilization60% of surveyed companies identified this as one of their biggest management challengesMaintenance Costs44% of surveyed companies identified this as one of their biggest management challengesServer Sprawl42% 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

Core IO Levels of Maturity

Dynamic

• Proactive• Optimizing

Costs and Quality

• Agile• Self Assessing

and ContinuousImprovement

• “Taking The Lead”

• Knowledge Capture and Use Automated

• Proactive• Accountable• Increased

Monitoring• Formal Change

Management• SLA’s• Improvement• Predictability• “Quality

Driven”• Knowledge

Captured and Reused

Standardized

• Reactive • Stable IT• Request Driven• Change

Management and Planning

• “Keeping ItRunning”

• Knowledge Capture

Basic

• Reactive• Ad hoc• Problem-

Driven• “Avoiding

Downtime”• Knowledge Not

Captured

Rationalized

Significant Cost Saving Opportunity for Server Management Automation

Data derived from Microsoft “Spotlight on Cost” Server Study 2009

Opportunity to use same tools and practices from desktop management in server environment

Automated Server Deployment

Automated Patch

Automated Back and restore

Average automation practice adoption is only 30%

Automation | Optimization | Simplification

Research shows opportunity to save an average of $2160 per server per year

Automated server management not widely adopted

Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Knowledge Capture/UseIncludes Best Practice Analyzers (BPA) for every role

Majority of costs for production outages comes from administration. Either configuration errors or “point and click”/”typo” mistakesBPAs include checks for configuration states that are known to cause issues.

Windows Troubleshooting PlatformProvides ISVs, OEMs, and administrators the ability to write troubleshooting packs that are used to discover and resolve issues found on the computerWindows 7 and 2008 R2 only

Fix It CenterFix 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 implementedWindows Client Only

Core IOIdentity and Access ManagementDesktop, Device, and Server ManagementSecurity and NetworkingData Protection and RecoverySecurity ProcessITIL/COBIT-Based Management Process

Capability: Desktop, Device and Server ManagementMoving from Basic to Standardized

Standard ImagesWindows 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 ManagementSoftware Distribution

Identity Validation, Data Protection, and Data Backup of Mobile DevicesBitlocker and Bitlocker-To-Go

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 FeatureSystem Center Virtual Machine Manager

Automated Tracking of Hardware and SoftwareSystem Center Configuration Manager

Asset IntelligenceHardware InventorySoftware Metering

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) ToolkitServer Consolidation and Virtualization

Hyper-V

Capability: Desktop, Device and Server Management Moving from Rational to Dynamic

Automated Infrastructure Capacity PlanningSystem Center Capacity Planner

Virtualization to Dynamically Move Workloads from Server to ServerSystem Center Virtual Machine Manager – Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)

Comparison of Basic and Standardized Email environment costs

Standardized Example

20,000 Users

1.62 ITE for Workload

15 Servers

9.29 Servers per ITE

7 Best Practices

$11,872 Cost per Server

$8.90 Cost per User

Basic Example

4,500 Users

1.3 ITE for Workload

4 Servers

2.89 Servers per ITE

3 Best Practices

$38,160 Cost per Server

$33.92 Cost per User

Some Differentiating Best PracticesStandardized software imaging for new deployments

Standardized imaging for operating-system maintenancePlanned operating-system maintenance

Collaboration Server IO Workload

Best Practices to Reduce Operational CostsEmail Workload

Adoption of Best Practice

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Standardized Practices

Rationalized/Dynamic Practices

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 EstimatesImprovements in Out-Of-The-Box Power ConsumptionSystem Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2 – Windows Power Management PackEnables you to monitor and manage the power consumption of computers running Windows Server 2008 R2System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 (in Beta)Allows for basic power management at the enterprise level

Power Savings & Enhancements

.

10-15% Power Savings over Windows Server 2003

~63W Xeon 55xx Series

Power

Tell the story Industry Drivers Reducing TCO Increasing Business value Resources

Objective 4

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Feature Requests That Contribute to Increased ValueContinuous AvailabilityEnable Seamless Access Across BoundariesWrite and Run Any Application

Continuous Availability

Clustering ImprovementsMulti-Site ClustersCluster shared volumes – multi-tenancy VHD disk accessLive Migration for Hyper-VNow can cluster DFS Replication TargetsCluster RDP Connection Session BrokerImproved existing and added new validations and migration options

Seamless Access Across Boundaries

Enabling a remote workforceClient Connectivity

DirectAccessBranch CacheImprovements in client side Offline Files

Desktop VirtualizationVirtualized Desktop Initiative (VDI)

Session VirtualizationTerminal Services Remote Desktop Services

Identity ManagementActive Directory Federated Services (ADFS)

Write and Run Any ApplicationApplication Virtualization

Med-V – Run applications on older versions of Windows platformWindows 2000 SP4Windows XP SP3

App-V – Run conflicting versions of an applicationAppFabric – Write the application once, run it on a server in the data center and move to cloud.

Tell the story Industry Drivers Reducing TCO Increasing Business value Resources

Objective 4

You are Here

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.pdfMicrosoft and Intel: Innovations in Hardware and Software to Help Deliver New Technology Experienceshttp://intel.com/go/idfsessionsHow Windows Server Reduces TCOhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/linux/windows-server-tco.mspxInfrastructure Optimizationhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496510.aspxDelivering Business Value by Optimizing your IT Investmentshttp://www.microsoft.com/optimization/default.mspx

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Resources for IT Professionals Resources for Developers

www.microsoft.com/learning

http://microsoft.com/technet http://microsoft.com/msdn

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