The document provides an agenda for the #WS2012 conference, including keynote speakers and session topics such as cloud computing trends, the Microsoft Cloud OS, and Hyper-V enhancements. It also outlines the commitments of Microsoft to provide scenarios, enhancements, and new capabilities for server virtualization, mobility, flexibility, storage, networking and more in Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V.

1. #WS2012

2. Maurice Martin
#WS2012 Director Server & Cloud Platform
Microsoft UK

4. Keynote: #WS2012 Built from the Cloud Up
Session 1: Beyond Virtualization
Lunch with our partners
Session 2: Power of Many Servers Simplicity of 1
Session 3: Every App, Any Cloud
Session 4: Modern Workstyle, Enabled
Drinks – brought to you by our MVPs

6. Turi Widsteen
General Manager
Microsoft Corporation

7. trends
cloud new social
computing & app patterns
consumerization data
of IT explosion

8. for the world’s apps
Cloud OS

9. unique
MICROSOFT
1
Cloud OS
CONSISTENT
PLATFORM
ON-PREMISES SERVICE PROVIDER

13. Jeff Woolsey
Principal Program Manager
Windows Server
Microsoft Corporation

14. for the world’s apps
Cloud OS

17. Unlocks insights on any data

20. The Industry
hardware vendors service providers
system integrators software vendors

21. Our Commitment
Cloud OS

24.  Scenarios for Server Virtualization
 Hyper-V Enhancements
 Mobility and Flexibility
 Storage and Networking Enhancements for Hyper-V
 Network Virtualization
25

25. Dynamic memory Network Larger virtual Open, extensible
increase assigned to virtualization for machines to support switch to help
virtual machines to multitenancy and IP increased workloads support security and
increase capacity with portability management needs
no downtime
26

26. VIRTUAL MACHINE ISOLATION AND
SCALE AND PERFORMANCE MOBILITY CONTINUOUS SERVICES OPEN AND EXTENSIBLE MULTITENANCY
Larger virtual Simultaneous live Clustering Open, extensible Network
machines support migrations ease enhancements switch helps support Virtualization
increased workloads management increase availability security and supports
burdens management needs multitenancy and IP
portability
Hardware Shared-nothing live Dynamic Memory Increased support Resource Metering
offloading offers migration enables increases capacity for Windows shows how many
better performance live migration with no downtime PowerShell helps resources each tenant
and scale between clusters increase automation is using
27

27. Run more Take advantage of
demanding newer Bigger, faster virtual machines
applications with hardware, while still
better performance using existing Guest applications
hardware to take advantage of
maximum improved Non-
advantage Uniform Memory
Hardware Access (NUMA)
offloading support
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28. SCALE AND
PERFORMANCE
Maximum number
Improvement
Windows Server
System Resource Windows 2008 R2
2012 factor
Logical processors on hardware 64 320 5×
Physical memory 1 terabyte 4 terabytes 4×
Host Virtual processors per host 512 1,024 2×
Virtual processors per virtual machine 4 64 16×
Memory per virtual machine 64 GB 1 terabyte 16×
Virtual Active virtual machines 384 1,024 2.7×
machine Virtual disk size 2 terabytes 64 terabytes 32×
Nodes 16 64 4×
Cluster Virtual machines 1,000 8,000 4×
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29. SCALE AND
PERFORMANCE
vNUMA node A vNUMA node B vNUMA node A vNUMA node B
Non-Uniform Memory Access
• Projects NUMA topology onto a virtual
machine
• Allows guest operating systems and
applications to make intelligent NUMA NUMA node 1 NUMA node 2 NUMA node 3 NUMA node 4
decisions
• Aligns guest NUMA nodes with host
resources
Guest NUMA topology by default
matches host NUMA topology
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31. Manage virtual machines independently Live migration Live migration of
from underlying infrastructure within a cluster storage
Shared-nothing live Hyper-V
Handle changing needs on demand migration Replica
32

32. VIRTUAL MACHINE
MOBILITY
Live migration based on server Modified pages transferred
Memory handle moved
Storage
Live migration setup
message block (SMB) share
Improvements VM Modified memory pages
Configuration data
Memory content VM
MEMORY
• Faster and simultaneous migration
• Live migration outside a clustered
environment
IP connection
• Store virtual machines on a File Share
SMB network storage
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33. 34

34. VIRTUAL MACHINE
MOBILITY
Disk Reads are mirrored; outstanding
Disk contentswrites go to to new
writes and are copied new
Live migration of storage Reads and writes go to the source VHD
changes are replicated
destination VHD
Move virtual hard disks attached
to a running virtual machine
Computer
Benefits running
• Manage storage in a cloud environment Virtual machine
Hyper-V
with greater flexibility and control
• Move storage with no downtime
• Update physical storage available to a
virtual machine (such as SMB-based Source device Target device
storage)
• Windows PowerShell cmdlets
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35. 36

36. VIRTUAL MACHINE
MOBILITY
DiskDisk writes are mirrored;new
Reads and writes go toto
contents are copied the
Live Migration Completes
Live Migration Continues
Shared-nothing live migration outstandingsourceMigration Begins
source VHD.changes VHDreplicated
destination are
Live VHD
Source Live Migration
Destination
Hyper-V Configuration data
Hyper-V
MEMORY
Modified memory pages
Memory content
Benefits Virtual
machine
Virtual
machine
• Increase flexibility of virtual machine IP connection
placement
• Increase administrator efficiency
• Reduce downtime for migrations across
cluster boundaries Source device Target device
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37. VIRTUAL MACHINE
MOBILITY
New feature Primary site Replica site
Replicate Hyper-V virtual machines from a Exchange virtual machine
primary site to a replica site CRM virtual machine IIS virtual machine Exchange
replica
SQL virtual machine virtual
SharePoint virtual machine
Benefits machine
CRM
replica
virtual
• Affordable in-box business continuity and machine
disaster recovery R2
• Failure recovery in minutes Replicate over
R1 R3
P1 P2 WAN link
• More secure replication across network
• No need for storage arrays
• No need for other software replication
SMB file share SAN
Hyper-V role and tools Hyper-V role and tools
technologies
Hyper-V Hyper-V PS Hyper-V Hyper-V PS
• Automatic handling of live migration cmdlets integrated UI cmdlets integrated UI
• Simpler configuration and management
Send/receive
replica traffic
Hyper-V Management Module Hyper-V Management Module
tracks and replicates changes for receives and applies the changes to
each virtual machine the replica virtual machine
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38. SCALE AND
PERFORMANCE
VHDX
Features Large allocations
and 1 MB aligned
Data region (large allocations and 1 MB aligned)
• Storage capacity up to 64 TBs Block Allocation
User data blocks
Intent log Table (BAT)
• Corruption protection during power failures Sector bitmap blocks
• Optimal structure alignment for large-sector
disks Header region Metadata region (small allocations and unaligned)
User metadata
Benefits Header Metadata table
File metadata
• Increases storage capacity
• Protects data
• Helps to ensure quality performance on
large-sector disks
39

39. SCALE AND
PERFORMANCE
Capabilities
• Improved performance of virtual hard disks
on 512e disks
• Ability to host virtual hard disks on native Logical sector 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
4 KB disks
Physical sector 0 Physical sector 1
Sector bitmap
Benefits
• Reduces impact of 512e disks on virtual Virtual hard disk 4 KB block (blue) not
hard disk stack
• Workloads complete more quickly
aligned with physical 4 KB boundary
40

40. SCALE AND
PERFORMANCE
Access Fibre Channel SAN Hyper-V host 1 Hyper-V host 2
data from a virtual machine
• Unmediated access to a storage area
network (SAN)
• Hardware-based I/O path to virtual hard Worldwide Worldwide Worldwide Worldwide
disk stack Name Set A Name Set B Name Set A Name Set B
• N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support
• Single Hyper-V host connected to different
SANs
• Up to four Virtual Fibre Channel adapters
on a virtual machine
• Multipath I/O (MPIO) functionality Live migration maintaining
• Live migration Fibre Channel connectivity
41

41. OPEN AND
EXTENSIBLE
Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
Token-based data transfer between
intelligent storage arrays
Benefits
• Rapid virtual machine provisioning and
migration Token
• Faster transfers on large files
• Minimized latency
Offload read Token Token Offload write
• Maximized array throughput
• Less CPU and network use Intelligent storage array
• Performance not limited by network
throughput or server use
• Improved datacenter capacity and scale
• Automation Actual data transfer
Token-based copy operation
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42. 43

43. Extending the Hyper-V Extensible Switch
For new capabilities
Manageability
• Windows PowerShell and scripting support Extensibility features
Extension monitoring
• Unified tracing and enhanced diagnostics
Extension uniqueness
Extensions that learn virtual machine
life cycle
Benefits Extensions that can veto state changes
• Open platform to fuel plug-ins Multiple extensions on same switch
• Free core services Integration with built-in features
• Windows reliability/quality
Ability to capture extensions
• Unified management
• Easier support
• Live migration support
44

44. OPEN AND
EXTENSIBLE
Single Root I/O Virtualization Virtual machine
(SR-IOV) Network stack
• Increases network throughput Software NIC Virtual function (VF)
• Reduces network latency
• Reduces host CPU overhead for processing
network traffic
Benefits
Hyper-V Extensible Switch
• Maximizes use of host system processors
and memory
• Handles the most demanding workloads
SR-IOV network adapter VF VF VF
45

45. 46

48. #WS2012

50.  Server Manager and PowerShell
 Highly Available Files and Services
 Storage Enhancements
 Network Enhancements
51

51. STANDARDS-BASED MANAGEMENT MULTISERVER ECOSYSTEM AND
MANAGEMENT EXTENSIBILITY
Windows Management Framework Server Cross
Manager platform
capabilities
ROBUST AUTOMATION
Standardize
Windows PowerShell 3.0 d interfaces
and tools
52

52. MULTISERVER
MANAGEMENT
Windows
Server 2008 R2 FILE SERVICES
Connect to server roles HYPER-V
(such as File Services, STORAGE
Hyper-V, and Remote
Desktop Services) on a
per-server basis.
Windows Server 1 Server 2 Server 3
Server 2012 Server 1 Server 3 Role 1
Server 2 Role 2
Manage a server role as
Server 1 Role 3
it spans across servers,
or look at a server and Role 1 Role 3
the server roles on that Role 2
server. Both options are
important. 53

53. 54

54. ROBUST
AUTOMATION
Key features
Broader coverage Greater resiliency
• Rich management through more than 2400 • Robust session connectivity
cmdlets • Disconnected sessions
• Session configuration files
• Job scheduling
• Windows PowerShell Web Access
More intuitive
• Integrated Scripting Environment 3.0: Syntax
simplification | IntelliSense | Reusable text in
code examples Higher performance
• Cmdlet discovery and module autoloading • On-the-fly compilation—up to six times
• Updatable help faster
• Script-sharing • Windows PowerShell Workflow
55

55. More intuitive
ROBUST
AUTOMATION
Cmdlet Integrated Scripting
Get-Command *-Net*
Environment (ISE) 3.0
discovery Get-Help *-Net*
Updatable Update-Help
Help Save-Help
Script-sharing
IntelliSense
56

56. 57

57. ROBUST
AUTOMATION
Simplified process for defining a new session configuration
Remote sessions remain in a connected state during transient network glitches or
failures
Session # Start a remote
session, disconnect, and close Windows
Configuration PowerShell
Disconnect-PSSession
Files
PS C:> $s = New-PSSession -
ComputerName srv1 -Name LongSession
• Disconnects a session connection from a remote
PS C:> $job = Invoke-Command $s {
computer 1..10| % {echo "Long running job - part
Robust Session
$_"; sleep 5} } -AsJob
Connect-PSSession
PS C:> Disconnect-PSSession $s
Reestablishes a session connection with a remote
Connectivity •
computer exit
Receive-PSSession
Disconnected
# Start Windows PowerShell on a
different computer
• Resumes execution of a command on a remote
session and retrieves the session output
sessions PS C:> $s = Get-PSSession -
ComputerName srv1 -Name LongSession
• Implicitly reconnects to session (without Connect-
PS C:> $job = Receive-PSSession $s -
PSSession command) Out Job
PS C:> Receive-Job $job
58

58. ROBUST
AUTOMATION
03
Job Job Job Schedule Options
Triggers Schedules Get-ScheduledJobOption
Job Scheduling Add-JobTrigger
Disable-JobTrigger
Disable-ScheduledJob
Enable-ScheduledJob
New-ScheduledJobOption
Set-ScheduledJobOption
• New cmdlets Enable-JobTrigger Get-ScheduledJob
in the PSScheduledJob module
Get-JobTrigger Register-ScheduledJob
• Jobs execute based on triggers
New-JobTrigger Set-ScheduledJob
Remove-JobTrigger Unregister-ScheduledJob
Set-JobTrigger
Internet
Windows Internet
HTTPS PSRP
End user
PowerShell (Browser)
Target 1
Windows Server 2008 R2
Web Access
Target 2
Windows Server 2003
• New to Windows Server 2012 PowWA
• Manage computers running
Gateway
Windows by using Windows
Windows Target 3
PowerShell within a browser Windows Server 2012
Server 2012 59

59. PowerShell 3.0 Modules
ROBUST
AUTOMATION
Windows PowerShell 3.0 New Modules
• Comprehensive server management with
more than 2,400 cmdlets
• Many new modules that allow the use
of Windows PowerShell 3.0 to manage
all aspects of the datacenter; for • Over 60 new modules to replace command line commands
example, new modules for:
• Networking, DNS, DHCP, BranchCache, DA, Server Roles, AD
• Dynamic Host Configuration Deployment, Firewall, Teaming, PKI, Security, Remote
Protocol (DHCP) server Desktop, VDI, RRAS, Group Policy, AppLocker, and many more
• Domain Name System (DNS)
server • No more knowing the module, modules load on the fly.
• Others
60

60. STANDARDS-
BASED
MANAGEMENT
• Primary, default server
deployment option
• Supports more roles and
• Minimal User Experience Option
services, including .Net
• Server Core with GUI tools
Framework 4.5 and SQL Server
• Server Manager and cmd.exe
2012
launch by default when server is
• Firewall-friendly remote
booted
management (WinRM) and
• Allows other GUI tools to be
Windows PowerShell are enabled
loaded
and installed by default
• Enabled through Add Roles and
• Adds the ability to easily move
Features wizard, or with
between Server Core and
PowerShell
MinShell
61

61. 62

62. NETWORKING QOS DHCP FAILOVER
IP ADDRESS MANAGEMENT
Inbox feature for integrated management of IP addresses, domain Helps guarantee Automatically
names and device identities predictable replicates and load
network balances DHCP
Tightly integrates with Microsoft DNS and DHCP servers performance and scopes
Provides custom IP address space display, reporting, and fair sharing during
management congestion
Audits server configuration changes and tracks IP address use Helps enforce
customer SLAs and NIC TEAMING
maximum pricing
HYPER-V NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION caps
Supports Combine any two
bandwidth floors
adapters with one
Isolation traffic without VLAN – Keep customers on the same server but and bandwidth
caps PowerShell
on different IP subnets command
Cross Subnet Migration – Move a VM to a new subnet without changing
the IP address in the VM
63

63. SIMPLIFIED
MULTITENANT
INFRASTRUCTURE
Blue sees Orange sees
SQL Server Web SQL Server Web
10.1.1.1 10.1.1.2 10.1.1.1 10.1.1.2
10.1.1.1 192.168.1.10 10.1.1.1 192.168.1.11
10.1.1.2 192.168.2.12 10.1.1.2 192.168.2.13
Server Virtualization Network Virtualization
What’s really happening
• Run multiple virtual 192.168.n.n • Run multiple virtual
servers on a physical networks on a physical
server PROVIDER ADDRESS SPACE (PA) network
• Each virtual machine 192.168.1.10
192.168.1.11
192.168.2.12
192.168.2.13
• Each virtual network
acts as though it is acts as though it is
running as a physical running as physical
server fabric
10.1.1.1 192.168.1.10 10.1.1.1 192.168.1.11 10.1.1.1 192.168.1.11 10.1.1.1 192.168.1.10
10.1.1.2 192.168.2.12 10.1.1.2 192.168.2.13 10.1.1.2 192.168.2.13 10.1.1.2 192.168.2.12
10.1.1.1 10.1.1.1 10.1.1.2 10.1.1.2
SQL Server SQL Server Web Web
CUSTOMER ADDRESS SPACE
64

64. CONTINUOUS
APPLICATION
AVAILABILITY
• Provides network fault tolerance and
continuous availability when network adapters
fail by teaming multiple network interfaces
• Vendor agnostic and shipped inbox Virtual
adapters
• Provides local or remote management Team network
adapter
Team network
adapter
through Windows PowerShell or UI
• Enables teams of up to 32 network adapters
• Aggregates bandwidth from multiple network
adapters
• Includes multiple nodes: switch dependent
and independent
65

65. HIGH-
PERFORMANCE
NETWORKING
Without RDMA
With RDMA • Higher performance through offloading of
network I/O processing onto network adapter
File Client File Server • Higher throughput with low latency and ability
to take advantage of high-speed networks
App
Buffer (such as InfiniBand and iWARP)
• Remote storage at the speed of direct storage
SMB SMB
Buffer Buffer • Transfer rate of around 50 Gbps on a single
NIC port
OS OS • Compatible with SMB Multichannel for load
Buffer Buffer balancing and failover
Driver Driver
Buffer Buffer
iWARP
Adapter
Buffer rNIC
NIC rNIC
NICAdapter
Buffer
InfiniBand
66

66. CLUSTER AWARE DEDUPLICATION
SMB 3.0
UPDATING
SMB 3.0 Automatically Eliminates file
moves file server duplication for up to
SMB Multi-Channel roles to additional 95% spaces savings
nodes without on software and
Continuously Available File Server service interruption. VHD library folders
Orchestrates
updates across all ONLINE BACKUP
cluster nodes with
STORAGE SPACES zero downtime.
Backup directly to a
Returns all roles to
Windows Azure
Thin Provisioning preferred node on
subscription
completion
Clustering
67

67. ALWAYS ON,
ALWAYS UP
CHKDSK NTFS improvements
• Seconds to fix corrupted data
• Rapid recovery from file system corruption without affecting
• availability time when used with CSV
No offline
• Rapid recovery from file system corruption without • Data scanning process separated from repair allocate-on-write
• Disk corruption virtually eliminated through process
affecting availability
• Period checksumwith volume, offline repair
• Online scanning validation of file system meta-data
• Resilient against power outage corruption
• Seamless data integrity protection
• Periodic checksum validation of file system metadata 400
• Improved data integrity protection
300
• Greater compatibility with SATA standards
200
• Ideal for file server volumes
100
0
1 2 3
Series1 Series2

68. ENTERPRISE-CLASS
FEATURES ON LESS
EXPENSIVE HARDWARE
Windows Application Server or File Server • Virtualization of storage with
Physical or Storage Pools and Storage
Spaces
virtualized
deployments • Storage resilience and
availability with commodity
Integrated File Server Administration
Hyper-V SMB Multichannel
hardware
Console
with other • Resiliency and data
Windows redundancy through
Failover Clustering NTFS SMB Direct
Server 2012 n-way mirroring (clustered or
capabilities unclustered) or parity mode
Cluster Shared Volume NFS Windows Storage Mgmt. (unclustered)
• Utilization optimized through
Windows thin and trim provisioning and
Virtualized Storage Space Storage Space Storage Space enclosure awareness
Storage
• Integration with other
Windows Server 2012
capabilities
Storage Pool Storage Pool
• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Physical and Serial AT Attachment
Storage (SATA) interconnects
69
(Shared) SAS or SATA

69. 70

70. ENTERPRISE-CLASS
FEATURES ON LESS
EXPENSIVE HARDWARE
• Highly available, shared
Microsoft data store for SQL Server
Hyper-V Cluster SQL Server databases and Hyper-V
workloads
SMB
• Increased flexibility, and
Single Logical Server FooShare
easier provisioning and
File Server management
Cluster
• Ability to take advantage
Single File System Namespace of existing network
infrastructure
Cluster Shared Volumes • No application downtime
for planned maintenance
Windows or unplanned failures with
Virtualized RAID
Storage Space RAID
Storage Space Storage SpaceRAID failover clustering
Storage Array Array Array
• Highly available scale-out
file server
Storage Pool Storage Pool
SAN • Built-in encryption
Physical support
Storage
71

73. This presentation explores how  Industry trends and challenges
Windows Server 2012 helps you
flexibly build—and more quickly  Windows Server 2012: Every app, any cloud
deploy and scale—applications  Flexible
and websites on-premises and in
the cloud.  Scalable and elastic
 Open
 Summary
 Get started
74

74. New Device Data Cloud
apps proliferation explosion computing
75

75. Scale and secure workloads, cost-effectively build a private
Beyond virtualization
cloud, and securely connect to cloud services
The power of many
Efficiently manage infrastructure while maximizing uptime
servers, the simplicity
and minimizing failures and downtime
of one
Build on an open and scalable web platform that supports
Every app, any cloud
applications across premises
Modern
Support a mobile and flexible work style
workstyle, enabled
76

76. Build and deploy
next-generation applications Scale web applications and Reuse development
across premises manage resources optimally skills and knowledge
77

77. FLEXIBLE SCALABLE AND ELASTIC OPEN
Build on-premises Increase website density Support open standards and
and in the cloud and efficiency common tools
78
78

78. Increased productivity Increased IT flexibility Cloud-based and
with programming with virtual machine hybrid applications
symmetry portability Windows Azure SDK
Same development Provision, manage and HTML5 or XAML
model between move VMs between base for UI
Build hybrid and symmetrical Windows Server and Windows Server and
Windows Azure Windows Azure I/O operations with
applications across premises isolated storage
Common development Common set of tools
tools for configuring VM
Common workflows workloads
and rules
79

79. Common development tools
Create and deliver powerful
applications
Shorten development time On-premises datacenter
Provide a rich and
comprehensive experience
Development
framework and tools
Use common workflows
More easily create and Azure
DEVELOPER
deploy applications that run
on Windows Azure
Use Metro-style development Development
tools framework and tools
80

80. Improved site Increased isolation Simplified
scalability and and security of management of
performance websites multiple sites
NUMA-Aware IIS CPU Throttling Centralized SSL
Scalability Certificate Support
FTP Logon Attempt
Increase scalability and Application Initialization Restriction Server Name Indication
elasticity for multitenant-aware Dynamic IP Restriction IIS Configuration Editor
applications and websites
81

81. Centralized SSL Certificate Support
Provision secure web farms
elastically and on demand
Server 1 Certificate store
Simplify certificate
management
Reduce hosting costs Server 1
Server 2
Scale to thousands of SSL Web
Server 2
certificates hosting
certificate
store Server 3
Server 3
Server n
Server n
82

82. Best platform for .NET Open web platform Support for multiple
Framework Open source software programming
.NET for Modern UI apps support languages
New Async language and HTML5 support ASP.NET 4.5 integration
runtime support
Build mission-critical WebSocket protocol Support for multiple
Increased application support languages, including
applications and take advantage
speed and startup via .NET, PHP, Node.js, and
of open frameworks, open background JIT Python
source applications and various compilation
Enhanced support for
development languages Many new features PHP and MySQL through
across IIS extensions
ASP.NET, WPF, WCF, and
WF
83

83. WebSocket protocol support
Support standards-based
WebSocket
Support asynchronous
operations and client-driven
web applications
HTTP Polling
PERFORMANCE
Create rich HTML5
Polling
applications
HTML5 WebSocket
WebSocket
BETTER
84

85. How do I embrace How do I increase the How do I deliver next- How do I enable modern
the cloud? efficiency in my datacenter? generation applications? work styles?
Scalable
Flexible Open
and elastic
Build and deploy
next-generation Scale web applications
applications across and manage resources Reuse development
premises optimally skills and training
86

86. Download Windows Server 2012
Learn more about Windows Server
2012, Microsoft Private Cloud solutions, and
Microsoft System Center 2012
Work with a Microsoft representative for
proof of concept and current and future
licensing needs
87

89. #WS2012

91.  VDI Enhancements
 Direct Access
 Active Directory Improvements
 Dynamic Access Control
92

92. EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT RICH USER EXPERIENCE
Streamlined
Easy deployment Unified administration
management RemoteFX for wide Graphics processing
area network (WAN) unit (GPU) support for
BEST VALUE FOR VDI
USB redirection Seamless experience
Multiple storage
User Profile Disk Fair Share
options
93

93. RICH
USER
EXPERIENCE
Delivers a consistently rich user experience to users over LAN or WAN
Corporate LAN
Internet or WAN
94

94. BEST
VALUE
FOR VDI
What should I deploy?
Benefits
User Profile Disk
• Available with pooled virtual machine With every virtual machine pool and
collections and remote desktop session
host collections remote desktop session host collection
User environment virtualization
• Stores all user settings and data User Profile Disk with
pooled virtual machine To apply roam settings across collections
• Contains roaming user profile, Folder collections
Folder Redirection
Redirection cache, and user environment
virtualization To apply roaming user data across
collections
• Roams with user within collection To centralize user data backup
• Appears as a local disk and improves
application compatibility
User Profile Disk with
remote desktop session host
collections
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95. 96

96. DIRECTACCESS
Support for
Windows
Easy-deployment PowerShell for
wizard client and server
Transparent network access
to the end user from any
Internet connection
Support for Site-to-site
multiple sites tunneling
Simple to deploy Flexible Unified Built-in support for
and manage deployment management IPv6 translation
centrally scenarios experience technology
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98. ACTIVE
DIRECTORY
DOMAIN SERVICES
Support for
virtualized domain
Rapidly provision new controllers Improved domain
Manage Active domain controllers as controller
Directory at organizational needs deployment
scale change experience
Domain controller
cloning
Full management Enhanced Active
Deploy Active Directory of Active Directory Directory
domain controllers into using Windows Administrative
public and private clouds PowerShell Center
99

99. ACTIVE
DIRECTORY
DOMAIN SERVICES
Virtual domain
controller Clones Rollback Detection
• Virtual domain controllers use the
unique GenerationID attribute to detect
when:
• Snapshots are applied
• A virtual machine is copied
Use the wizard to deploy a single virtual domain
• GenerationID changes when an event
controller. affects virtual machine’s position in time
• During startup, the virtual domain
Configure additional options for domain controller controller compares the current value of
clone (for example, name and IP information). GenerationID against the value stored in
the directory
Copy source domain controller virtual machine
and restart to complete cloning operation.
• A mismatch (rollback event) triggers safe
virtual domain controller convergence
100

100. ACTIVE
DIRECTORY
DOMAIN SERVICES
Benefits
• Reduces the learning curve
• Increases confidence in scripting
• Enhances Windows PowerShell
discoverability
• Graphical user interface supports Active
Directory recycle bin functionality
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102. Rights
Management
Classification Access control Auditing Services protection
Identifies data Controls access to files Audits access to files Applies RMS encryption
• Classifies files • Provides central access • Provides central audit • Reduces information
automatically and policies for an policies for compliance leaks
manually organization-wide reporting and forensic
safety net analysis
• Classification-based
encryption
• Expression-based
access rules
• Access-denied
Assistance
103

103. DYNAMIC
ACCESS
CONTROL
Active Directory Corporate
Domain Services
file servers
High business impact Organizational policies
policy
• High business impact
• Personally identifiable information
Personally
identifiable
information policy
Finance department policies
• High business impact
• Personally identifiable information
Finance policy • Finance
User folders
Finance folders
104

104. DYNAMIC
ACCESS
CONTROL
Active Directory File
Domain Services server
User claims Device claims Resource properties
User.Department = Finance Device.Department = Finance Resource.Department = Finance
User.Clearance = High Device.Managed = True Resource.Impact = High
Access policy
105

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