This document outlines the agenda for a keynote presentation on managing critical infrastructure. The agenda includes sessions on proactive IT infrastructure management, integrated management for small to medium enterprises, strategic infrastructure management, advanced virtualization management, zero touch software deployment, and a question and answer period. The presenter is introduced as Dan Stolts, a senior IT evangelist from Microsoft with over 20 years of experience in hosting, consulting and community involvement.

1. Keynote - Managing Critical
Infrastructure The Easy and
Reliable Way
Dan Stolts
Sr. IT Pro Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
Blog: http://ITProGuru.com
Twitter: @ITProGuru

2. Today’s Agenda
(subject to change)
• 9:00-10:30 – Keynote - Stop Putting Out Fires: Proactive IT
Infrastructure Management
• 10:30-10:40 – Short Break
• 10:40-11:15 – Integrated Management for Small-to-Medium-Size
Enterprises
• 11:15 – 12:00 – See the Forest and the Trees with Strategic
Infrastructure Management
• 12:00 - 12:45 - Lunch
• 12:45 – 2:15 – Get A Grip On Your Virtual World: Advanced
Virtualization Management
• 2:15 – 2:30 – Short Break
• 2:30 – 4:00 – Look Mom, No Hands! Zero Touch Software and OS
Deployment
• 4:00 – 4:30 – Q & A
• 4:30 – 5:00 – Evaluations and Raffle
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3. Dan Stolts
• Presence
− Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/danstolts
Or http://ITProGuru.com
− Twitter: @ITProGuru
• 3nd year at Microsoft
− IT Evangelist based in MA
− Online Content Development
− Live Event Delivery
− User Group / Community Lead
• Prior 20+ Years…
− Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc
− Hosting and Consulting
− Community Volunteer
• Skill Profile MCT, MCITP, MCSE, TS…
− Windows infrastructure
− Systems Management and Security
− Virtualization solutions

4. Management Space History and Experience
Is Microsoft Playing in the
Systems Management
Space?
How Much Experience?
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5. Management Space History and Experience
AUTOMATION 2009
SERVER DATACENTER MANAGEMENT
VIRTUALIZATION monitor | configure | backup | virtualize | automate 2007
BACKUP &
RECOVERY 2006
MONITORING 2000
CONFIGURATION 1994
DESKTOP
VIRTUALIZATION 2006
MOBILE DEVICE 2008
CLIENT MANAGEMENT
PROBLEM pc | mobile | app | virtualize | security | cloud
2010
INCIDENT CHANGE
SECURITY 2010
INTEGRATED X-PLATFORM
EMBRACE
ENABLE THE CLIENT ENTER THE DATACENTER VIRTUALIZAT INVESTMENT
THE CLOUD
ION S
1995 2000 2005 2010

6. Server Virtualization – Journey to the Cloud

8. Impact: Virtualization vs. Cloud
Virtualization Cloud
Large Enterprise
More than 100 Servers
Medium Business
10-> 100 Servers
Small Business
Less than 10 Servers
Device
Manufacturers
Developers
Key:
Consumers Yes – In a big way
Gamers Maybe - Sometimes
No – Not Really
Others???
Full Blog Post: http://bit.ly/CloudValue

9. Datacenter Administrator and IT Administrator
Tomorrows Administrators
Datacenter
Administrator
Administrator /
Application
Owner
Which Career Model is
RIGHT FOR YOU?

10. Learn Separation of Responsibilities
Cloud &
Cloud OS VM
Stack Complete! & Better Together! Cloud App
Public Cloud
Private with
On-Prem OS
You Patch
IT As A Service ITAs Deploy Custom
You Use Service
ITYou A Service
As A Service
Collaboration
Apps
On- Infrastructure Platform Software
Premise (as a Service) (as a Service) (as a Service)
You manage
Applications Applications Applications Applications
Data Data Data Data
You manage
Runtime Runtime Runtime Runtime
Other Manages
Middleware Middleware Middleware Middleware
You manage
Other Manages
O/S O/S O/S O/S
Virtualization Virtualization Other Manages Virtualization Virtualization
Servers Servers Servers Servers
Storage Storage Storage Storage
Networking Networking Networking Networking
(expand and contract on demand)
Cloud Principles
Elasticity, Highly Automated, Self-Service & Chargeback Proportional To Use
Copyright 2011 Microsoft

11. Start Playing …
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12. Cloud Computing Landscape
Customer Service Providers Global Providers

13. Configuration Manager
• Patch management and
deployment
• OS and application
configuration management
• Software upgrades
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14. SMS 2003, time to migrate
• Mainstream Support ended Jan 10, 2010
• What does that mean?
− No-charge Problem Resolution Support ends
− We no longer accept product design change
requests (DCRs) or provide new feature functionality
− We no longer provide new non-security hotfixes
without enrollment in Extended Hotfix Support
• How can we help you? New Site live here
http://www.microsoft.com/smserver

16. Administrator Experience
• Common look and feel
across System Center
products
• Improve discoverability
• Only show what is
relevant
• Complete scenarios
within the console
• Simplified navigation
• Consolidated elements

17. Role-Based Administration Example
• Jamie as ‘ConfigMgr
Admin’ has full rights
• Jamie assigns Application has
Jamie as ‘ConfigMgr Admin’
ConfigMgr Admin Bruce is responsible
Jamie rights to, and can see: Bruce
Deployment role to for deploying
software
Bruce has rights to, and can
a see:.

18. System and User-Centric
Configuration Manager 2007: Configuration Manager 2012:
Optimized for Systems Management Still committed and focused on System
scenarios Management scenarios
Challenging to manage users: Embrace User Centric scenarios:
Forced to translate a user to a device Tell the difference between a user’s
Explicit: run a specific program on a desktop and a kiosk
specific device Flexible solution so IT can maintain
Software Distribution is a glorified script control, and users can be productive
execution. anywhere and anytime.
Management solution tailored for
applications

19. Provisioning: Delivering IT as a Service
IT Tools
Self
Service
Portal

20. Virtual Machine Manager
Heterogeneous
Virtualization Management
Physical to Virtual Conversion (P2V)
Virtual to Virtual Conversion (V2V)
Virtual Server to Hyper-V
VMware to Hyper-V
Virtual Machine Library
PowerShell Scripting
Delegated Administration
Virtual Machine Authoring
VM Templates/Cloning
Failover Cluster Integration
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21. Self Service: Consuming IT as a Service
IT Tools

22. System Center Data Protection Mgr 2010
To the Cloud
Active
Directory
DPM
Server(s)
Clients
• File Servers
• Microsoft® Exchange Servers Tape-based
• SQL Servers archive
• Microsoft SharePoint Servers
• Hyper-V Host and Guest Session Backup Offline tape
• Windows 7 Workstations
 Ability to backup Microsoft servers and applications digitally and incrementally
throughout the day eliminating the “backup window” at night
 Allows for incremental recovery to the source server or to different destination
target server
 Transfer digital backups to tape or to the Cloud for long term storage

23. Service Manager
• Incident and Change Management
• Round Trip Compliance
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24. System Center Server Management Automation
Automation, orchestration, and integration for IT management tools
Service Manager
Incident /
Change
Management
.
Leveraging
IT As A Service

25. Operations Manager
Operations Manager 2008 R2 Operations Manager 2012
• • End-User Experience
Monitoring
• .NET & J2EE Applications
• Monitoring
• Network & Storage
Monitoring
•
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26. System Center IT Management Products
IT staff
Do It Yourselfer (DIY) IT Specialist
Manages servers
IT Generalist
Specialists per workload
as secondary role
1-5 full time IT “Jack of all Trades” Generalists
Segment
MS
Small Business Midsized Organization Enterprise
10 25 50 100 250 500
PCs
# of
Platforms
System Center
Products
+

27. Help Manage & Secure PCs Anywhere

29. Security - Forefront
LOWER COSTS
SIMPLIFIED MANAGMENT
ENHANCED PROTECTION

30. Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 provides enhanced endpoint
protection and simplified management while greatly reducing
infrastructure costs
HELP SIMPLIFY security
INTEGRATE and
PROTECT MANAGEMENT
EXTEND security
everywhere experience
• Lower costs of
• Advanced and • Simplified
endpoint protection management
comprehensive deployment and through unified
malware ownership operational
protection for • Deployment of experience for
clients and endpoint security endpoint security
with a proven and management
servers • Increased visibility of
scalable Config
Manager potentially vulnerable
infrastructure endpoints that allow
you to take
• Extends Windows operational
OS security remediation actions

31. Still Able to Leverage Familiar Tools
• Visio for Administrators
• Powershell & WMI
• Excel and SQL Server
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34. Calendar Year 2009 2010 2011 2012
2007 R2 2012
2008 R2 2012
2007 R3 2012
2010 vNext
2010 2010 R2
Acquired 2012
2010 vNext
2009 & R2 2010 & R2 2011 & R2
2010 vNext
v1
Acquired
Online 6 Month
Desktop Manager v1 & v2 Cycle

35. Evaluations Are VERY IMPORTANT!
• Please fill out your evaluations … Same
scale as “grade school” (drop the one’s)
− 10=100% Does not exist because there is no
Such thing as “perfect” 
− 9=90% Good = Report card of “A”
− 8=80% OK = Report card of “B”
− If less than 8, Please give feedback so we can improve 
− 7=70% Not So Good = Report card of “C”
− Less than 7… You get the picture
• Please put cell phones on “Stun”
• Slides location: http://technetevents.com/resources
• Dan’s Blog: http://ItProGuru.com
• Twitter: @ITProGuru

36. © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market
conditions,
it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation.
MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

37. DAN STOLTS MCT, MCTIP, MCSE, TS…
SR. IT PRO EVANGELIST
HTTP://ITPROGURU.COM
TWITTER: @ITPROGURU