Canadian Colleges Update – Dec 2009 Session 4 Windows 7 and the Optimized Desktop
Session 4 – Jeremy Chapman, Senior Product Manager, Commercial Windows 7 and the Optimized Desktop
5 Trends in Commercial Desktop IT
- consumerism
- carbon neutral
- contingency
- costs
- compliance
End User Computing Scenarios -separation Creates Flexibility – manageability maintains costs
How do we get to Windows 7?
- Migration Analyzer
- Hardware Assessment
- Application Compatibility – collect, analyze, test & migrate <- use this approach to save testing time
Virtualization -Session, Machine and Application
Improving the Deployment Core – improvements in creating images, multi-cast and high speed data migration
Remote Access for Mobile Workers
- DirectAccess – can replace VPN on Windows 7 to directly connect to secure corporate networks at login using IPSEC and IPv6
- BranchCache – caches content downloaded from file and Web servers – improved performance for users at a branch
- Windows Optimized Desktop Solution – Search Federation
- BitLocker and BitLocker To Go – protect data on internal and removable drives, mandate use of encryption via group policies, store recovery info in AD
- AppLocker – eliminate unwanted/unknown apps
- PowerShell 2.0 – integrated scripting
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