TechEd '04: Tuesday Keynote
BTW: Today's posts in Pink since Pink is the new Black
"I just want to start staying yes." What a cool concept. Speaker is Andy
Lees, the VP of Servers and Tools.
- Mix today: 70% support of what is, 30% support of what will be. Want to
drive that mix more to 50%/50%.
- Thee aspects of Windows Server System: Ops, App Infrastructure and
Information Work Infrastructure.
- Announced Common Engineering (CE) Roadmap and CE Criteria 2005
- MOM is the driver for system administration (MOM drives Exchange)
- Architectural Guidance for core usage scenarios
- Web Services for administration
- Windows Server System Infrastructure Environment like PAG for ITPro
- 10 years of support of the portfolio of business products
- Newsgroup integration in Visual Studio Help
- Discussion of MS Best Practice Analyzer and SQL Server 2005 Data
Encryption
- MS is running 99.9996% OS Uptime.
- Ilya Bukshteyn and Jon Rauschenberger from Clarity talked about
configuring Email access with ISA
- Nice demo of the ISA Email Configuration Wizard. Maybe a dozen
clicks to do that.
- Demo of the VPN connection wizard. 5-clicks in total. Nice.
- Quick demo the DFS/FRS enhancements in W2KSrvR2 and "Remote
Differential Connection." Very nice indeed.
- New version of MSBPA has a Yukon readiness analyzer
- Talked about native data encryption, but no real drill-through.
- Talked about Client Inspector and Isolator
- Machine connects to an isolation network
- Machine inspected
- Updated and authentication as needed
- Talked about WUS as a single update point and should have rollback
- 66% of e-mail is SPAM
- Talked about Exchange Intelligent Mail Filter (runs on server)
- Talked about CallerID
- Will be part of Exchange Edge services
- Free SMS 2003 and MOM 2005 Express for all Attendees. Also free copy of
services of Services for Unix.
- Quick overview of Windows SharePoint Services and Portal Server
- Good overview of Federated Identity using Web Services
- Talked about Anywhere Access which like a SMB-over-HTTP