Managing Windows Server 2008 R2

1. Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 Executive Overview

2. Agenda • Today’s IT management challenges • Streamlined management in Windows Server® 2008 R2 • Overview of Windows Server 2008 management features

3. Today’s IT Management Challenges • Increasing demands for IT • Reliance on technology for critical operations • Always available, from anywhere • Increasing complexity • Adding capabilities adds management burden • Most IT costs are for managing existing systems • Trends of the future magnify challenges • Move to data centers – large scale, virtualization, remote management • Outsourcing – lower skilled, high turnover users

4. Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 Offers • New and improved management consoles • Simplified deployment • Easier server migration • Quick implementation of best practices • Easy monitoring of performance and reliability • Quick virtual data center implementation and management • Energy efficient computing • Enhanced identity management • Improved automation and management

5. New and Improved Consoles • Consoles • Simplify administration • Lower the learning curve • New and improved consoles • Server Manager • Active Directory® Administrative Center • IIS Manager • Hyper-V™ Manager • Built on Windows PowerShell™

6. Simplified Deployment • Helps to lower the cost of deployment • Improves the speed of redeployment • Supports Windows Vista® and Windows® 7 • Contains many new deployment enhancements • Driver provisioning • Multicasting • VHD support • Image multicasting • IPv6 support • Extensible firmware interface

7. Easy Server Migration • The most common way of adding new servers to an existing environment • Today server migration is often time-consuming and error-prone, resulting in higher costs • Migration guides and built-in tools help you: • Reduce the effort and expense of migration • Reduce migration downtime • Increase accuracy • Eliminate conflicts • Lower costs

8. Quick Implementation of Best Practices • Best Practices Analyzer saves time and money by: • Reducing improperly configured servers • Validating configuration information • Enhancing infrastructure reliability • Improving server compliance • Providing corrective action advice • Knowledge grows over time • Supports command line scan

9. Easy Monitoring of Performance and Reliability • Slowdowns and downtime are expensive • Prevention is more cost-effective than repairs • Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor • Consolidates several stand-alone tools • Easily customizes data collection and event trace sessions • Provides reliability monitoring functionality • Performs diagnostic reporting • Helps you make changes before problems arise

10. Quick Virtual Data Center Implementation and Management • Virtualization helps you: • Fight server sprawl • Increase server utilization • Reduce the IT footprint • Provides all of the tools necessary to quickly implement and manage a virtual data center • Virtual data centers can be managed using: • Hyper-V Management Console • Windows PowerShell • System Center Virtual Machine Manager

11. Energy Efficient Computing • Helps control costs • Improves design and implementation methods • Windows Server 2008 R2 makes power management easy • Supported by: • Virtualization • Automatic power • management features • Manual features to measure power use and manage power configurations

12. Enhanced Identity Management • Security is still important • Strong identity management provides: • More secure environment • Lowers possibility of data loss • Supports public perception • Supports a strong bottom line • Many enhancements to identity management in both Active Directory and Federated Services

13. Improved Automation and Management • Windows PowerShell helps reduce the cost and effort required to manage your IT infrastructure • Flexible management through a command-line shell, scripting language, and graphical user interface • Created to help standardize and automate all your management processes, helping to improve administrator efficiency and minimize human error • Includes the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) • Provides a common management automation platform • Drastically reduces time-to-results with consistent vocabulary and syntax

14. Summary • Windows Server 2008 R2 is a significant advance in streamlining IT management • Improvements include: • New and improved consoles • Best Practices Analyzer • Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor • Enhanced virtualization management • Enhanced power management • Extended identity management • Windows PowerShell

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