Managing Windows Server 2008 R2

1. Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 Technical Overview

2. Agenda • Today’s IT management challenges • Streamlined management in Windows Server® 2008 R2 • Overview of Windows Server 2008 management features • A closer look at Windows PowerShell™

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 cost is 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 • New and improved consoles • Windows Deployment Services • Server migration • Best Practices Analyzer • Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor • Windows® virtualization management • Windows power management • Active Directory® and identity management • Windows PowerShell

5. New and Improved Consoles

6. Windows Deployment Services • Driver provisioning • Multicasting • VHD support • Image multicasting • IPv6 support • Extensible firmware interface

7. Server Migration • The most common way of adding new servers to an existing environment • Today it is time consuming and error-prone • Migration guides provide detailed instructions for supported roles • Preparation, migration, and verification • Target roles: File, DHCP, Active Directory, DNS, Print • Migration cmdlets help migrate: • Core OS settings: Local Users and Local Group Memberships, Networking, Data/Share migration • Data and settings for top roles: File, DHCP

8. Best Practices Analyzer • Reduces improperly configured servers • Validates configuration information • Enhances infrastructure reliability • Improves server compliance • Provides corrective action advice • Knowledge grows over time • Supports command line scan

9. Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor • Consolidates several stand-alone tools • Easily customize data collection and event trace sessions • Provides reliability monitoring functionality • Performs diagnostic reporting

10. Hyper-V Virtualization Management • Supports Open VHD format • Permits management through WMI • Exposes performance counters • Support critical failure notification • Supports Guest Operating Systems • Permits the backup of running VMs • Integrated Shadow Copy • Supports point-in-time snapshots

11. Windows Server Power Management • 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. Active Directory and Identity Management • Active Directory server role enhancements • New forest functional level • Windows PowerShell management • Microsoft System Center Management Pack • Active Directory Administrative Center • Recycle Bin • Offline domain join • Managed service accounts • Active Directory Federated Services update • Authentication assurance

13. Windows PowerShell • Designed to reduce the cost and effort required to manage your IT infrastructure • Easy to adopt, easy to support, and easy to share • Created to help standardize and automate all your management processes, improving administrator efficiency and minimizing human error • Now includes the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) graphical interface • Support for transactions enables you to group commands and treat them as a single task

14. Windows PowerShell • Revolutionary interactive shell and scripting language • Included in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 • Suports Script Remoting • Reduces the time-to-results with consistent vocabulary and syntax • Provides asynchronous execution • Supports Eventing • Allows delegated and consistent management • Improved Server Role Coveage • Contains a Cmdlet-based debugger • Utilizes the .NET Framework • Supports transactions • Hundreds available cmdlets

15. 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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