1. For a more secure and productive business environment Microsoft Windows Server Solutions Infrastructure Solutions for Midsize Businesses

2. Linking IT to Performance Companies in the top 25% of IT capability grew revenue 6.8% faster per year than their peers in the bottom 25% of IT capability. The firms in the top 25% of IT capability enjoy 23% higher revenue per employee than their peers in the bottom 25% of IT capability. Isolating the impact of all IT functions on Productivity shows that IT Infrastructure is a key determinant of superior productivity. Managers in firms that are supported by better information systems have significantly better insight into, and control over, key dimensions of their business. Sources: Enterprise IT Capabilities and Business Performance, Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School George Favaloro, Principal, Keystone Strategy, Inc-March 2006 Firms with better IT have more productive employees Robust IT infrastructure is a key driver of productivity and growth Information technology fuels profitable revenue growth Information technology gives managers more insight and control

3. IT as a Strategic Asset Align IT with the business; control complexity IT Goals Establish a Responsive Infrastructure Proactively leverage IT investments to meet business needs Eliminate Unnecessary Complexity Manage IT resources efficiently by eliminating unnecessary redundancy, reducing manual tasks and lowering costs Ensure Your Business Is Always Running Use IT as a trusted partner in meeting business goals Move from complexity to efficiency

4. Management – The Manual Reality People intensive nature drives costs Source: IDC 2002, Microsoft Primary Quantitative Research. 400, 30 min phone surveys of IT professionals in data centers with 25 or more servers IT is spending their time on manual tasks 53%24%23% 54%17%29% 56%17%28% 58%18%24% 60%16%24% 62%14%25% Percent of Reponses Degree of Automation ManualScripts Automated Tools

5. Management – The Manual Reality People intensive nature drives costs Source: IDC 2002, Microsoft Primary Quantitative Research. 400, 30 min phone surveys of IT professionals in data centers with 25 or more servers Over 60% of TCO over a 5 year period driven by people costs

6. Does Your Infrastructure Look Like This? Pieced together No end-to-end architecture Requires lots of manual intervention Not sure if it’s secure

7. A More Secure and Well Managed Infrastructure for Midsized Businesses

8. How Do You Get There? Cost Center Uncoordinated, manual Infrastructure Knowledge not captured More Efficient Cost Center Managed IT Infrastructure with limited automation and knowledge capture Managed and consolidated IT Infrastructure with extensive Automation, knowledge captured and re- used Fully automated management, dynamic resource Usage, business linked SLA’s. Knowledge capture automated and use automated Business Enabler Strategic Asset Infrastructure Optimization Model

9. Key Drivers People, Process and Technology Desktop, Server and Device Management Security and Networking Identity and Access Management Data Protection and Recovery IT Process and Policy

10. Technology View of Model No server- based identity or access management Users operate in admin mode Limited or inconsistent use of passwords at the desktop Minimal enterprise access standards Active Directory for Authentication and Authorization Users have access to admin mode Security templates applied to standard images Desktops not controlled by group policy Active Directory group policy and security templates used to manage desktops for security and settings Desktops are tightly managed Centrally manage users provisioning across heterogeneous systems

11. Reactive Ad hoc Problem- Driven “Avoiding Downtime” Reactive Stable IT Request Driven Change Management and Planning “Keeping It Running” Proactive Accountable Increased Monitoring Formal Change Management SLA’s Improvement Predictability “Quality Driven” Proactive Optimizing Costs and Quality Agile Self Assessing and Continuous Improvement “Taking The Lead” Most effort spent in: Process Culture View Microsoft Operations Framework/ITIL in IOM

12. Cost Reduction Uncoordinated, manual infrastructure Managed IT Infrastructure with limited automation Managed and consolidated IT Infrastructure with maximum automation Fully automated management, dynamic resource Usage, business linked SLA’s IT Labor Costs$774$542 $261 Basic to Rationalized: IT Labor Costs reduced $513 (66%) $232(30%) $281(52%) IT Labor Infrastructure Optimization Model

13. Best Practices Lower IT Costs Best Practice Research Supports IT Maturity Basic = 0-2 Best Practices Adopted Standardized = 3-4 Best Practices Adopted Rationalized = 5-6 Best Practices Adopted Best Practice Annual Benefit per PC IT Tasks ImprovedEnabling MS Technology 1: OS Standardization$52 Image Management Desktop Administration Service Desk/Deskside Support Vista WIM Image Management Vista Virtualization 2: Centrally Managed PC Firewall$39 Security & Patching Desktop Administration Service Desk/Deskside Support Vista Firewall Active Directory Group Policies 3: Automated Password Reset$29 Service Desk/Deskside Support 3 rd Party 4: Users Cannot Install Software$50 Application Management Desktop Administration Service Desk Vista User Account Protection Active Directory/Group Policies Automated SW Deployment (SMS) 5: Users Cannot Change Settings$30 Application Management Desktop Administration Service Desk/Deskside Support Vista User Account Protection Active Directory Group Policies 6: Automated Software Distribution$26 Application Management Desktop Administration Security & Patching Active Directory/Group Policies Vista Windows Installer Service Systems Management Server (SMS)

14. The Foundation for Midsize Businesses to a More Secure and Well Managed Infrastructure

15. Improved Security Technology-Savvy Law Firm Gains Easier Remote Access from Any Computer Situation Security, connectivity, and support issues for remote users Solution Deploy a clientless remote access solution using Microsoft technologies that provides lawyers secure, improved, remote access to corporate network resources from virtually anywhere in the world Benefits Increased security Simplified management Easy-to-use remote access to all network resources

16. Reduce Costs and Complexity Professional services organization with 4 remote branch locations realizes increased employee productivity with the ability to access and share centrally stored files and documents plus increased up-time with central IT management Situation Secure access to company wide documents, and no onsite staff to monitor and update systems Solution Deploy Windows Server 2003 R2 and ISA Server 2006 in each branch – staff can securely access files and collaborate. Install System Center Essentials 2007 at the main office to centrally monitor and updated branch clients, servers and applications. Benefits Enhanced employee productivity with better connectivity and reliability Decreased TCO – Up to 50% WAN traffic reduction Increased Security Simplified Management from central office

17. Enhance Productivity Situation Over the years, the company’s messaging system has become an indispensable part of its business. Looking at new ways to use technology to support communication and collaboration needs. Solution Migrated employees to Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 – using it as a foundation for providing its users with advanced unified messaging and mobility solutions. Benefit Simplified Server Management System protection against disk failure or data corruption. Employees can access e-mail, calendar, and contacts even when an Internet connection isn’t available Trade association improves administrator and end-user productivity with anywhere access to next-generation messaging system

18. Simplified Infrastructure Management On-line sales company realizes increased system reliability and lower TCO of IT infrastructure with a unified IT management solution Situation On-line sales company depends directly on the reliability of their IT systems to generate sales and revenue. Any web server downtime can lead to lost sales. The more proactively and efficiently their IT staff can manage their infrastructure, the more reliable their systems and the healthier their sales. Solution Deploy System Center Essentials 2007 as the unified IT management solution, and deploy Windows Server 2003 R2 for web servers. Benefits Increased IT system uptime Unified IT management console Quicker IT problem resolution Improved security of clients and servers

19. Why Leaders Reap Benefits 1.Reduce IT operating costs by lowering complexity 1)Giga: implementing Enterprise Architecture [yields] 20% savings in annual IT operating budget 2)Gartner: Architecture can provide savings of 10% to 20% of infrastructure costs 3)Giga: penalty of 10% of project cost and 25% of project elapsed time with non-standard technology architecture 2.Strategic agility 1)Gartner: Enterprise IT Architecture gives 30% improvement in ability to deal with changing external drivers. 2)MIT: Correlated top performers with high capability IT infrastructure & standards 3.Increased productivity 1)Forrester: 40% productivity gap between leaders and laggards in IT investment

20. Learn More Assess your infrastructure optimization level and discover the steps to take to move to the next level: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/infrastructure/iom_assessment.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/infrastructure/iom_assessment.mspx Work with your Microsoft technology provider to help you get started building a plan that maps to your business and IT priorities. Find a Microsoft technology Provider by visiting: http://directory.microsoft.com/mprd/default.aspx http://directory.microsoft.com/mprd/default.aspx Visit the Midsize Business Center www.microsoft.com/midsizebusiness www.microsoft.com/midsizebusiness

21. Learn More Windows Server 2003 R2 www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003 www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003 Exchange Server 2007 www.microsoft.com/exchange www.microsoft.com/exchange System Center Essentials 2007 www.microsoft.com/sce www.microsoft.com/sce Forefront Security for Exchange Server www.microsoft.com/forefrontwww.microsoft.com/forefront Internet and Security Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 www.microsoft.com/isaserver www.microsoft.com/isaserver

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