Session 12 Jon Perera, GM Strategy, Education
Higher Education studies about students and institutions. Looking at broad trends and their impacts on education delivery. Microsoft is making a commitment from a number of fronts – education software, programs and policy & advocacy.
Interaction with over 300,000 schools across 115+ countries and 900 dedicated full time MS employees working in this area. MS invests $485M USD in Partners in Learning.
Higher Education Approach
- engaging student, empowering educators
- enabling infrastructure agility
- fostering research & community
Software Roadmap Read more...
- divided between servers and services (software and services)
- tiers : applications, developer tools, programming model, application services, relational database, operating system, systems management
- academic toolkit (coming Jan 2010) – commitment to deliver MS Office with Higher Ed capabilities
- interactive classroom (integrated PowerPoint and OneNote) – this is an add-in for PowerPoint and OneNote, cool interactivity between faculty and students
- Semblio for digital content (packager for content) <- very interesting for our faculty includes assessment tools and powerful simulations – requires a client install for the Semblio player, web player by fall 2010 (this is a Silverlight platform)
- mathematics (embedded into Word)
Session 11 Patrick Hevesi, Enterprise Technology Architect, WW CATM Security Lead
Microsoft Forefront – Business Ready Security Solutions
Evolving Threats
- 2 axes – threat and person
- Threats = Curiosity, Personal Fame, Personal Gain, National Interest
- Person = Script-Kiddy, Undergraduate, Expert, Specialist
- Results: Vandal (largest area by volume), Author, Trespasser, Thief (largest area by $ lost and fastest growing segment), Spy(largest amount of gov’t IT security $ spent)
Evolving Threat Landscape
- huge improvements in bandwidth of networks
- botnets leveraging peer to peer
- 88% of attacks are on applications – top 3 applications attacked: #1 Adobe Reader, #2 iTunes, #3 Quicktime
- the explosion of social networks introduce hugely naive users to places where they voluntarily give up their personal data
- Malware sites #1 Game Cheats #2 Pornography #3 Music Lyric #4 Gossip sites
- http://www.microsoft.com/sir – security intelligence report (free report – updated every 6 months)
Core Infrastructure Optimization Solutions (optimized desktop, optimized datacenter, business ready security) Read more...
- best protection is to run Windows NOT as administrator especially when surfing the web
- Microsoft worked with Intel and Dell to build security into hardware and software (OS working with the hardware – 64 bit)
Frank Chiappone, Sr Project Manager Live@edu
Evolving Education Market – move to digital campus and manage IT costs and complexity
Software + Services drives this model (left on-site progress to right cloud services)
- Exchange Server – Exchange Online – Outlook Live (built on MS hosted Exchange – 10GB mailbox)
- SharePoint Server – SharePoint Online – Office Live
- Office Communications Server – Office Communications Online – Windows Live
Blend of IT Managed and Self Managed services like SkyDrive that gives 25GB per user – SkyDrive will transition to SharePoint Online to allow for management by organizations
Demonstrated a School Portal using SharePoint platform integrated with Live@edu and SkyDrive and Office Live. Using ADFS 2.0 will allow for AD federated authentication.
Provisioning uses a basic Identity Lifecycle Manager implementation to sync between AD and Outlook Live.
We need significant help to address the Patriot Act and how Canadian Educational institutions have been able to implement Live@edu.
Session 9 Kevin Lan, Senior Program Manager, Windows Server Division
Windows Server Release History – every 2 to 3 years for a new release
Technology Investment Areas
- virtualization – Hyper-V with Live Migration
- management – PowerShell scripting
- web – ASP .Net and WebDAV, IIS 7.5 component install
- scalability and reliability – 256 core support, componentization, boot from SAN or VHD, support solid-state devices, file classification infrastructure
- better together with Windows 7 – DirectAccess, BranchCache
Scalability
- designed for groups of 64 processors
- SQLServer can take advantage of 256 logical processors
R2 Power Management
- reduce power consumption by only powering cores that are working – Core Parking
- Power AQ program – 10% savings in power from CPU utilization all managed from Group Policies
- V4.0 ACPI spec supports this to allow power metering
Server Core Changes Read more...
- 64 bit delivery only
- minimal installation option for window server (no GUI shell, command line interface), excellent for Read Only Domain Controllers and for Hyper-V virtualization
- types of servers: Web, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter
- reduces patch burden due to fewer components by approx 40%
Session 8 – |OCS Case Study – Cambrian College, Sudbury, Ontario (Michael Alloy, CIO Cambrian College and Mauro Lollo, CTO UNIS LUMIN)
Business Situation – before
- Nortel PBX with CallPilot
- Novell Groupwise
- Employees sharing phones
- limited phones in classrooms
Needs
- increase classroom phones
- enhanced distance ed program
- add more phone extensions
- greater integration between communication and collaboration tools
- future proofing & innovation
Challenges
- cost
- features and flexibility
- lack of integration
Approach – engaged a consulting firm that specializes on Unified Communications
The Solution for Cambrian
- OCS on premise Web conferencing – content sharing with audio and video
- OCS Edge infrastructure – remote access
- High Fidelity recordings
- Integration with 3rd party video and conferencing equipment in the classroom
- OCS Voice
- Integration with existing Nortel PBX
- Optimized for OC softphone endpoints for staff – headsets and USB phones
- Office Communicator Phone Edition IP phones in the classrooms
Cambrian is facing significant revenue pressures and the implementation of UC is seen as strategic to the future of the college.
Results and Benefits Read more...
Session 7 Raj Gopalakrishnan, Enterprise Technology Strategist, Voice, Compete, Incubation
Currently – silos of communication with multiple inbox, phone numbers, etc
Future of Communications (centred around identity and presence)
- Unified Inbox & Presence
- Authentication – heavily leverage Active Directory
- Administration – uses Exchange Server
- Storage – SQLServer
- Compliance
Unified Communications decreases costs by addressing ( estimated 40 -50% savings):
- travel expenses
- telephony and audio conferencing charges
- real estate and facility costs
- messaging and voice mail costs
- cost of communication systems
Case Study – Microsoft Internal Deployment – generated 240% ROI and savings of > $212M USD annually (used Forrester’ Business Value Framework)
There is a significant Environmental Sustainability benefit with Unified Communications – significant reduction in carbon footprint and power consumption.
The core of Microsoft’s UC solution is that it is “presence powered”. Impressive demo starting with Outlook, moving to IM, audio and then a video conference. Impressed with the ease of use and seamless integration.
Three Phases of Rolling out UC – start simple and add onto your existing investments in Exchange and SQLServer by adding Office Communication Server.
Session 6 Chris Pirie, GM, Microsoft Learning Marketing and Sales Mgmt
The Skills Imperative – bridging the skills gamp and increasing deployment – 3 pillars
- Digital Literacy – reaching the masses through technology readiness
- IT Academy Program – reaching future tech leaders through competency and career enablement
- Commercial Gold Certified Training – driving deployment through career enhancement
Channels for Microsoft Learning
- Extended Classroom
- Online Learning
- Certifications
Provided some stats on aging IT workforce, global IT employment growth about why this is important to Microsoft
The Microsoft Ecosystem in Canada http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship (IDC report)
IT Academy Overview – BCIT might want to consider joining http://www.microsoftitacademy.com
- essential level – digital content for Digital literacy, Operating System and Office applications
- advanced level – supports content for Office, Server and Developer products
- will be part of the Campus Agreement in 2010
Jeff Johnson – IT Academy Area Lead North America
Diploma/Degree + Certification = Career Advantage
Session 5 Rod Kruetzfeld, Team Software Process, Desk Virtualization, Incubation
Desktop Virtualization with a twist (VDI)
Why Virtualize? – drive costs down, increase IT efficiency, enable busines agility
Why Microsoft? – its the platform you know, data centre to desktop, end-to-end management, best TCO/ROI
* System Center can manage Microsoft virtualization and VMWare*
Choice of what to virtualize: Server, Application, Presentation, Desktop and User State all managed by System Center
- Server Consolidation – fastest way to reduce costs using Windows 2008 Server Hyper-V
- Virtualized Workloads – Exchange, SQLServer, SharePoint, System Center, Vista, Server 2008
- Manage Physical and Virtual Server Lifecycles – H/W provisioning, Virtual Workload provisioning, OS/Software Deploy, Patch and State Mgmt, Performance and Health Monitoring, Disaster Recovery, Backup
- Intelligent Placement – capacity planning technology ensures best resource utilization – System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), performance and resource optimization (PRO)
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery – P2V using VMM, data protection manager (DPM)- snapshots up to every 15 minutes, system state daily using DPM
Windows Server 2008 – Standard (1 VM), Enterprise (4 VMs), Datacenter (unlimited VMs)
Server Management Sutie Enterprise – System Center uses a per processor model (have we done the VMWare vs Hyper-V analysis?) Read more...
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
Session 3 – Tony Ollivier, Enterprise Technology Architect – Office Systems Futures – Office 14
The User Productivity Challenge – balance between Business and User Focus (economic efficiency) and CIO Focus (IT efficiency)
- common platform – with the goal of cost-effective platform heavy dependence on SharePoint 2010
- Unified Business Platform
- Unified Communications
- Business Intelligence
- Enterprise Content Management
- Collaboration
- Enterprise Search
- starting to focus on device independent data delivery – workstation, phone, browser
Features – Work better together Read more...
- co-authoring leveraging SharePoint 2010 – collaboration in real time, ability to integrate with presence, lock sections of a document, etc
- Share a Presentation – broadcast Slideshow via PowerPoint – creates a weblink to share with viewers
- common Ribbon toolbar for all Office products including SharePoint, Visio, Project, Outlook, etc
- Backstage view – improved printing experience, connects to services, customizable and configurable
- Excel – data slicers – more intuitive than pivot tables and sparklines for data visualization
- Use Office Anywhere – Office Web Apps hosted on premise via SharePoint 2010 – allows for light weight editing, hi fidelity viewing and runs on any browser
- Interesting of OneNote – for shared collaboration