June 2006 Microsoft Windows Hosting Seminar Series Matthew Boettcher Web Platform Technical Evangelist (Hosting) Developer & Platform Evangelism Division (DPE) Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region (EMEA)

June 2006 Microsoft Windows Hosting Seminar Series Product Roadmap: Windows-based Hosting Services

Section Agenda Microsoft Teams Who are they? What do they do? Overview of Windows-based Hosting Services What do you need? What do you want? Overview of the Windows-based Hosting Solution Solution Components from Microsoft Solution Additions from Partners What’s New with Windows-based Hosting 4.0

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Product Groups Windows Server Web Platform and Tools (IIS, ASP.NET, Tools) SQL Server etc. (Exchange, MOM, SMS, LCS, SharePoint…) Communications Sector Division  Hosting Business Management  Hosting Solutions Development (*MPS) Developer & Platform Evangelism Division  Technical How-To Guidance  Competitive Value Guidance

Microsoft Solutions for Service Providers Reduce Expense Increase Revenue Modular!

Partner Additions for Web Applications DotNetNuke Community Server Microsoft is a Web Application Enabler

Windows-based Hosting Solution Architecture

Basic Web Hosting Architecture Only what you need Only what you want

Windows-based Hosting Solution Documentation Viewer Soon to be on TechNet Web Site!

2005 Windows-based Hosting Solution Roadmap Version 3.5  Web Site Starters  Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1  MOM Version 4.0  SQL Server 2005  ASP.NET 2.0  Linux Hoster Starter Kit 2007 Version 5.0  Longhorn Server  Virtualization  SharePoint V3

Windows-based Hosting Solution Drive Revenue Increase ARPU and Attract New Customers Win Over Influential Developers Increase Margins with Higher Value Service Offerings Start with Small Windows Deployment – Scale Deployment in the Future Increase Operational Efficiency Reduce Complexity and Ease Manageability Reduce Costs Better Database Management Tools and Security Support for the latest Microsoft Product Updates Leverage Microsoft Commitment to Hosting Succeed with Windows-based Hosting Microsoft Hosting Program Services Provider License Agreement Value Proposition and Key Benefits

Windows-based Hosting Solution Two categories of Components: Infrastructure  Streamline management, administration, and monitoring of the hosting environment to lower operational costs Hosted Services  Revenue-producing services deployed on top of the infrastructure components ®

Windows-based Hosting Solution Products used in Infrastructure Components Windows Server 2003 (Platform Core) Active Directory (Centralized Management) Windows Software Update Services (Updates) Automated Deployment Services (Purposing) Microsoft Provisioning System (Provisioning) Microsoft Operations Manager (Monitoring) SQL Server (Reporting) Tools: Windows, IIS, SQL, ASP.NET (Operating)

Windows-based Hosting Solution Hosted Services Components Internet Information Services (Web Hosting)  HTML, FrontPage, ASP, CGI, Perl, PHP SQL Server (Data Hosting) SharePoint Services (Collaboration Hosting) ASP.NET (Dynamic Web Application Hosting) Platform Integration with: Exchange Server (Enterprise-class Hosting) ISV Applications… Microsoft Business Solutions…

Updated in 4.0: ASP.NET 2.0 Developer Productivity Simplified page development model Target any Web client (PC or mobile device) Modular, well-factored, extensible architecture Superior debugging and tracing support Enhanced Performance, Scalability, and Reliability Compiled, not interpreted Rich caching support Web farm scalable session state Automatically detects and recovers from errors Simple Deployment and Configuration No need to bring down Web server Deploy and upgrade running applications with Xcopy XML configuration files ASP.NET provides a complete environment for building, deploying, and running.NET Web applications.

Updated in 4.0: Hosters and SQL Server 2005 Drive New Business Opportunities Reaching New Customers Largest launch in the history of the Server and Tools group SQL Server Workgroup Edition and Express Edition Reporting tools and new service offerings Reduce Costs Reducing Complexity and Easing Manageability Scalable, reliable, and fast Management tools and security Seamlessly move up from Express through Enterprise Edition Win Over Influential Developers Developers Driving Demand Visual Studio 2005 Integration Enable new business from application and web developers Faster time to market for websites and applications Value Proposition and Key Benefits

Updated in 4.0: Users and SQL Server 2005 Ease of Use Integration with Microsoft Office Windows Server System Integration Management and deployment tools Developer Productivity Visual Studio 2005 Integration Faster time to market for websites and applications Secure and Trusted Enterprise class database Granular permissions controls Built-in native encryption Value Proposition and Key Benefits

SQL Server 2005 Data Hosting Features Management Features Built-in Configuration Consoles Web-based Administration Tool (In Beta) Express Edition to Server Upload Tool (In Beta) Basic Hosting Scenarios Shared Hosting on Workgroup Edition Dedicated Hosting on Express Edition Advanced Hosting Scenarios Clustering (Standard supports 2-node) Reporting and Analysis Services

SQL Server 2005 Editions Editions ExpressWorkgroupStandardEnterprise Hosting  On every dedicated server  Upsell to other editions  Development environment  Low-priced shared and dedicated environments  Dedicated and large-scale shared services  Added scalability, plus high availability and additional management features  64-bit support  Production database services  Supports the largest Web sites  Higher-end business intelligence CPU Limit124No Limit RAM Limit1 GB3 GBNo Limit Database Size4 GBNo Limit High Availability Online System Changes Backup Log- shipping Failover ClusteringOnline Restore

Ideal for… Hobbyists and students Lightweight Easy to use Easy to deploy: XCOPY Starter Kits, Code Samples Professional Developers Free redistribution Fully compatible with higher level editions Easy to manage Great for local DBs SQL Server 2005 Express Features * planned for H2 FY06 DB Engine Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, & Cursors Reporting Report Designer & Server* (great for ISVs!) ProgrammingCLR + T-SQL XML SupportNative XML Full Text SearchIncluded* ManagementSSMS Express* Replication Transactional & Merge (Subscription only) Limits1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 4GB DB +

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Matthew Boettcher Web Platform Technical Evangelist (Hosting) Developer & Platform Evangelism Division (DPE) Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region (EMEA)

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