Canadian Colleges Update – Dec 2009 Session 4 Windows 7 and the Optimized Desktop

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Dec 092009
 

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

Canadian Colleges Update – Dec 2009 Session 3 Office System Futures

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Dec 092009
 

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

  • 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
  • SharePoint Workspace 2010 – (this is the old MS Groove) – take SP Docs and Lists offline via replication
  • Office Mobile – allows Office interaction on mobile devices
  • SharePoint 2010 – rapide development for business applications – front end your LOB or ERP systems with SharePoint – interesting
  • improvements to run on existing and new hardware
  • Layered Defense approach for security and compliance – “most organizations have 50% more documents than they need”
  • SharePoint 2010 – portal capabilities – integrated social networking within your organization – mysites, linkedin,

Microsoft’s “New Efficiency” Campaign for Windows 7

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Oct 292009
 

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:

  1. A relentless focus on growth – changes in construction mgmt focused on green sustainable initiatives
  2. Speed to change product lifecycles – auto makers who can retool production lines in 10 days vs 10 months
  3. Ability to speed up business cycles - new video games maximize sales in the first 4-5 days

The rest of the morning was Microsoft folks building on Jim’s themes and relating them to the “New Efficiency” slogan.  Microsoft’s proposal is that the 3 following things make up the “new efficiency”.

  1. Run the business = create cost savings
  2. Grow the business = increase productivity
  3. Transform the business = ability to innovate

Microsoft also played on the old saying of “Do more with less” by pushing “With less, do more”.  A bit too much marketing for me.

One last factoid that struck me was Microsoft’s investment in research.  Microsoft spends $9.5 billion USD on R&D annually – that is more than most company’s value!

My big ask would be that Microsoft fully adopt open standards and focus on reducing IT complexity in the technologies they provide the market.  Overall, a valuable morning with good information and a bonus that I got to catch up with my good friend @whitebill.

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