1. What's in Windows® Server 2008 R2: A Technical Overview Harold Wong Sr. IT Pro Evangelist blogs.technet.com/haroldwong
2. Agenda Windows Server 2008 R2 Overview Best Practice Analyzers Active Directory® Improvements WindowsPowerShell™ 2.0 Power Management Improvements Group Policy Improvements Remote Desktop Services File Classification Infrastructure Better Together with Windows 7 (DirectAccess and BranchCache)
19. What’s New In Active Directory Key additions: Active Directory Administrative Center Managed Service Accounts Offline Domain Join Recycle Bin for AD Other administrative additions: Windows PowerShell cmdlets Best Practices Analyzer Active Directory Web Services Authentication Assurance
20. Recycle Bin for AD Object Life Cycle No Recycle Bin Feature Delete Delete Tombstone Object Garbage Collection Recycled Object Garbage Collection Live Object Live Object With Recycle Bin Feature Tombstone Lifetime 180 Days Deleted Object Lifetime 180 Days Tombstone Lifetime 180 Days Auth Restore Undelete Deleted Object
67. Core Parking Overview Scheduling processes on a single server for density as opposed to dispersion This allows “park/sleep” cores by putting them in deep C states Benefits Enhances Green IT by reducing CPU power consumption
68. Group Policy PowerShell PowerShell Scripting inside GP Extend current reach of GP Script Extension to include PowerShell for logon/logoff, startup/shutdown scripts PowerShell cmdlets for GPMC operations Full lifecycle: create, link, configure, rename, backup, copy, remove Enables interesting new scenarios for customers PowerShell cmdlets that write and read registry settings to GPO(s) Values can be written to either Policy or Preferences Settings can accept more value types
69. Group Policy Starter GPOs Easy experience right from the start Starting off point to speed up the creation of GPOs Embody best practices that map to Microsoft Security Guide Eight existing: User and computer case Available for Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Enterprise Client (EC) and Specialized Security Limited Functionality (SSLF) Ships in-box with Windows 7
82. SCVMM supportPlatform & Management Improvements New API, connection broker extensibility, Windows Powershell support, Best Practices Analyzer, full MSI support
94. Authentication and encryption mitigate many attacksVPNs connect the user to the network DirectAccess extends the network to the user
95. Better Together With Windows 7DirectAccess, BranchCache and More… Agile VPN AppLocker Read-only DFS More efficient client power management Desktop and application virtualization feeds BitLocker encryption on removable drives Remote Workspace, Presentation Virtualization and Remote Desktop Services Gateway combine for native desktop experience on public Windows 7 computers
