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)
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 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
I attended a half day seminar offered to IT leaders in Vancouver today by Microsoft Canada. Essentially, this was the launch of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010 to the Vancouver market. There were about 100 people in attendance.
Here is my Twitter stream from the session today … http://twitter.com/#search?q=leodesousa msft
The day began with an engaging keynote by Jim Carroll – Futurist, Trends & Innovation Expert. Jim spoke laid out themes of :
- Run the business
- Grow the business
- Transform the business
Next, Jim provided examples from his consulting engagements to highlight the themes. One of Jim’s quotes was “Success comes to those who evolve.” Another quote, “Many kids going to elementary school will have careers in fields that don’t exist today. Think about a “location intelligence” professional.” With the huge growth of spatially related data, there is a real need for people skilled in location intelligence.
Jim also talked about the “new economy” typified by: Read more...
- A relentless focus on growth – changes in construction mgmt focused on green sustainable initiatives
- Speed to change product lifecycles – auto makers who can retool production lines in 10 days vs 10 months
Alan Inglis posted about What good looks like from a solutions architecture perspective. How do you create a solution for a new project without creating architecture that already exists or making the same mistakes that previous projects made? This is a must read post and I recommend it.
Alan described 10 artefacts that he would expect a solutions architect to leave behind from a project implementation. They are:
- Project Background
- Terminology
- Key Drivers, Principles, Standards and Constraints
- Business Problem
- Information View
- Risk View
- Application View
- Data View
- Integration View
- Infrastructure View
I have some questions for Alan on this:
- How big a project would require this level of artefact creation? For small and possibly medium projects, the work to do the architecture may be more than delivering the project.
- Is there a subset of these artefacts that would be sufficient for small and medium projects?
- How would the next solutions architect find and assess the artefacts created? Need a searchable, secured repository – wiki?, blog?, SharePoint?, network file share?, knowledge base?
We, Enterprise Architects, regular trumpet the value of having an archictecture and learning from it. Some of the key factors for me would be: Read more...
Found this funny video by skyscrapr.net on youtube. It is a cartoon video and presents the basics of architecture – Enterprise, Solutions and Infrastructure; in a fun way, using the city planning metaphor. I showed it to my wife and now she gets what I do!!
Meet the Architects
This week I am in Seattle, WA at the Educause 2007 Annual Conference. I am really looking forward to the week starting with a train ride from Vancouver, BC to Seattle, WA on the Amtrak Cascades route.
Today, I spent the day with peers and colleagues at the Microsoft Redmond Campus at the Higher Education Technology Symposium. The day started early … 7:30am pickup in downtown Seattle and did not finish until after 6pm.
The first session talked about shifting Microsoft to:
- customer driven innovation
- global commitment to education
- relevance in programs, products and policies
Saw a familiar graphic with a vendor twist …
Instead of the standard EA and IT “people, process and technology”, we saw a de-emphasis (I hope that is a word!) of technology and got “people, process and preparedness“. I was pleased to see a common theme of “Scalability” all day long.
Collaboration was a big focus with Sharepoint Platform Services – deployed as hosted services as well as installed as local software. Hosted services will continue to be a challenge for Canadian (and non US) Higher Ed Institutions as long as we have to deal with the US Patriot Act. There was a great talk on Campus Infrastructure Platform that is very informative in a discussion of building a solid base infrastructure for future delivery of technology. Read more...