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Best Practices Analyzer in Windows Server 2008 R2<br />Ing. Eduardo Castro, PhD<br />Comunidad Windows<br />ecastro@mswindowscr.org<br />

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Agenda<br />The need for a Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) solution and value proposition<br />Solution in Windows Server 2008 R2<br />The Dynamic BPA Framework<br />Advanced Scenarios<br />Questions and Answers<br />

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Best Practices Analyzer - Need<br />Issues<br />Server configuration complexity is increasing all the time<br />Harder to maintain optimal configuration<br />Server misconfigurations are a common source of down-time and support calls<br />Symptoms<br />Poor performance, poor reliability<br />Unexpected functionality problems<br />Root Causes<br />Limited guidance available to optimize configuration<br />No easy and consistent way to analyze configuration across the Server<br />

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Best Practices Analyzer - Need<br />Addressing the root causes<br />Capture guidance from experts on optimal configurations<br />Based on feedback from customer support channels<br />Make it super easy to obtain current configuration and compare against the expert guidance automatically<br />Provide a single mechanism to analyze best practices for the entire server<br />Customer benefits<br />Diagnose and correct common configurations problems<br />Reduce Total Cost (Ownership and Support) by optimizing server configuration and reducing down-time.<br />Proactively prevent problems from occurring<br />

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Best Practices Analyzer – WS08R2<br />BPA Infrastructure built into Windows and integrated into Server Manager<br />Targeted at Windows Server Roles<br />Full PowerShell command line support<br />Scheduling Best Practice Analyzer scans<br />Enable Scripting<br />New and updated Best Practices guidance available through Windows Update<br />

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Best Practices Analyzer – WS08R2<br />Model based solution<br />Full Remote Best Practice Analysis support<br />Integral part of Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) Client<br />Can perform Best Practice Analysis of server from client<br />Current Coverage: AD DS, DNS, Web Server(IIS) Remote Desktop Services(RDS) and AD CS<br />Coverage will be increased over time through WU<br />

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Major Scenarios – WS08R2<br />

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DemoBest Practices Analyzer UI and TechNet Portal<br />

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PowerShell Interface<br />Get-BPAModel<br />List all available BPA models on the server<br />Invoke-BPAModel<br />Scan a single or multiple BPA models on the server<br />Get-BPAResult<br />Obtains rich information about result messages from a Best Practices Analyzer scan<br />Set-BPAResult<br />Include or Exclude the results of a Scan<br />

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PowerShell Interface<br />Parity with the UI experience and more<br />Availability on Server Core<br />Integrated with Server Manager Cmdlets<br />Run BPA scans and view results for the entire Server all at once<br />Generate and archive BPA reports<br />Schedule BPA scans<br />Perform BPA analysis remotely<br />

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DemoBest Practices Analyzer PowerShell Interface<br />

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BPA High Level Architecture<br />BPA UI Integrated in Server Manager<br />BPA Infrastructure<br />BPA PowerShellCmdLets<br />Invoke-BPAModel<br />BPA Engine<br />Get-BPAResult<br />Set-BPAResult<br />Get-BPAModel<br />BPA Report<br />BPA Model<br />

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BPA Overall Framework <br />Microsoft Product <br />Groups<br />Online detailed<br />resolution steps<br />Community<br />Publishing BPA Articles<br />Support <br />Field Teams<br />Windows<br />Update<br />Customers <br />BPA Models<br />In-box resolution steps<br />

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Online Resolution Steps and Feedback <br />Microsoft Product Groups<br />http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd392255.aspx<br />

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BPA Advanced Scenarios<br />Using BPA Infrastructure and other in-box technologies<br />PowerShell<br />Windows Eventing<br />Task Scheduling<br />Examples of some advanced scenarios<br />Centralized BPA management/reporting<br />BPA monitoring<br />

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BPA Advanced Scenario - 1<br />Centralized BPA Management/Reporting<br />Obtain a report of the current state of Best Practice compliance for servers in the environment<br />Server 1<br />Administrator’s Workstation<br />Server 2<br />Server N<br />

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BPA Advanced Scenario – 2 <br />BPA Monitoring<br />Get alerted if any of the servers in the environment fall out of best practice compliance at any point in time<br />Server 1<br />Administrator’s Workstation<br />Event Forwarding<br />Event Forwarding<br />Server N<br />

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DemoBestPracticesAnalyzer<br />

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Summary<br />Common BPA Infrastructure is needed and delivered in Windows Server 2008 R2 for Server Roles<br />Integrated into Server Manager<br />PowerShell Interface<br />Detailed online content<br />Has a dynamic nature with updated best practices available through Windows Update<br />Infrastructure helps enable advanced scenarios<br />

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question & answer<br />

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www.microsoft.com/teched<br />Sessions On-Demand & Community<br />www.microsoft.com/learning<br />Microsoft Certification & Training Resources<br />http://microsoft.com/technet<br />Resources for IT Professionals<br />http://microsoft.com/msdn<br />Resources for Developers<br />www.microsoft.com/learning<br />Microsoft Certification and Training Resources<br />Resources<br />