2. Jeffrey Snover Distinguished Engineer Microsoft Session Code: SRV312

3. WS08 R2 The Best Managed Windows Ever

4. What I hear from Customers How do I get my servers to WS08/R2? How do I manage remote my servers? How do I know if I’ve configured things correctly? How do I reduce costs and increase the quality of my IT operations? How can I let others admin portions of my server?

5. Windows Management Framework Access User Experience Automation User Experience I have the right tools to get the job done Access I can manage lots of machines from anywhere Automation I can manage things my way and automate my operations

6. Services Windows Management Framework Server Management Automation Environment Management Protocols Server Mgr BITSBITS WsmanWsman WMIWMI PowerShell Engine AutomationAutomation User Experience MigrationMigration PS ISE ToolsToolsBPABPA Remote & Multi-Machine Mgmt RSATRSAT AccessAccess PowerShell Remoting

7. How do I get my servers to WS08/R2?

8. Migration Guides and Tools Getting to WS08/R2 Server Migration Portal http://www.microsoft.com/migration Supported source servers: WS03, WS08, WS08 R2 Migration cmdlets to assist with server role, OS settings, data and share migration Guides for AD, DNS, DHCP, File, Print, BranchCache Future Guides for Hyper-V, RRAS, ADCS, NPS/IAS, HRA, RDS, WSUS

9. Server Migration Tool 1.Get what can be migrated 2.Export settings 3.Send data 4.Receive data 5.Import settings

10. Toolkit Approach Granular steps allow you to Act/Verify -Verbose tells you details of what happened Run in PowerShell and use Start- Transcript to capture the entire session in a text file

11. What I hear from Customers How do I get my servers to WS08/R2? Migration guides and tools How do I manage my remote Servers? How do I know if I’ve configured things correctly? How do I reduce costs and increase the quality of my IT operations? How can I let others admin portions of my server?

12. How do I manage my remote Servers?

13. Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) Managing Remote Servers Role Tool Active Directory® Certificate Services Tools Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Tools DHCP Server Tools DNS Server Tools File Services Tools Hyper-V™ Tools Remote Desktop Services Tools Active Directory Administrative Center Server Manager Feature Tools BitLocker Active Directory Recovery Password Viewer Failover Clustering Tools Group Policy Management Tools Network Load Balancing Tools SMTP Server Tools Storage Explorer Tools Storage Manager for SANs Tools Windows System Resource Manager Tools

14. Server Manager Remoting Current customer pain Your #1 request since WS03 WS08 Server Manager provided integrated management but local-only Remote management of WS08 R2 machines Provides “GUI for Server Core” Supports Windows 7 client as remoting source Long-term investment: server management from a client OS = primary scenario

15. Managing Remote Servers with Server Manager Jeffrey Snover Distinguished Engineer Microsoft

16. Standards-Based Management Protocol: DMTF Standard Protocol: Web Services Management (WSMAN) Agent: The WinRM service in Windows implements the server role of the WSMan protocol. WMI implements the CIMOM. Tool: WSMan cmdlets allow access to any device that complies with CIM and WSMan standards Raw hardware, Unix etc Extensions: Streaming enables PowerShell remoting

17. Managing Remote Servers with Standards Based Management Jeffrey Snover Distinguished Engineer Microsoft

18. What I hear from Customers How do I get my servers to WS08/R2? How do I manage my remote Servers? Remote Server Admin Tools (RSAT) Standards-based management (CIM/WSMAN) How do I know if I’ve configured things correctly? How do I reduce costs and increase the quality of my IT operations? How can I let others admin portions of my server?

19. How do I know if I’ve configured things correctly?

20. Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) Knowing Things are Configured Correctly In box coverage for top Server Roles ADCS, ADDS, DNS, RDS, IIS New/updated guidance available through Windows Update BPA Infrastructure Built into Windows Integrated into Server Manager Exposed via PowerShell cmdlets

21. Best Practice Analyzer – Consolidation and Monitoring Jeffrey Snover Distinguished Engineer Microsoft

22. What I hear from Customers How do I get my servers to WS08/R2? How do I manage my remote Servers? How do I know if I’ve configured things correctly? Best Practice Analyzer How do I reduce costs and increase the quality of my IT operations? How can I let others admin portions of my server?

23. How do I reduce costs and increase the quality of my operations?

24. What Is PowerShell? Microsoft Automation Strategy Scripting Language for beginners and wizards Provides a Platform and Extension API Ships a set of Interactive Shells and basic Commands Adapts many different Type and Data systems for admins Supports a great ecosystem of administrators, partners and community

25. Managing Remotely Using the Automation Platform Automation Platform WS08 R2 Enhancements Ubiquitous Remoting and Execution Environment Local or Remote On Single or Multiple Machine As Jobs On Events In delegated and restricted or unrestricted environments Using various Authentication mechanisms Kerberos, NTLM, Basic, Negotiate, CredSSP New WMI PowerShell cmdlets for common IT Pro tasks Invoking Methods and eventing Recursive search using –Recurse switch Background Jobs abilities using the –AsJob switch

26. PS> Do-MyJob-OrderPizza Mushrooms,Sausage You PowerShell How can PowerShell 2.0 automate my infrastructure? How can I automate my infrastructure using PowerShell 2.0?

27. PowerShell Jeffrey Snover Distinguished Engineer Microsoft

28. What I hear from Customers How do I get my servers to WS08/R2? How do I manage my remote Servers? How do I know if I’ve configured things correctly? How do I reduce costs and increase the quality of my operations? PowerShell How can I let others admin portions of my server?

30. PowerShell Delegated Administration Remoting execution connects to an endpoint PS> New-PSSession –ConfigurationName Inventory Register endpoints with a Name, ACL, StartupScript Startupscript can configure LanguageMode: Full, Restricted, None Commands available Delegate by: Registering Endpoints with different capabilities Scripting different capabilities based upon incoming request

31. PowerShell Delegated Administration Jeffrey Snover Distinguished Engineer Microsoft

32. What I hear from Customers How do I get my servers to WS08/R2? Migration Guides How do I manage my remote servers? Remote Server Admin Tools (RSAT) Standards-based management protocols (WSMAN/CIM) How do I know if I’ve configured things correctly? Best Practice Analyzer How do I reduce costs and increase the quality of my IT operations? PowerShell How can I let others admin portions of my server? PowerShell Delegated Admin

33. WS08 R2 The Best Managed Windows Ever Automation I can manage things my way and automate my operations Access I can manage lots of machines from anywhere User Experience I have the right tools to get the job done Server Manager Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) Server Migration Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) Active Directory Admin Center (ADAC) Windows PowerShell Remoting Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) Automation Platform: Windows PowerShell, Wsman, WMI, BITS Automation Environment Improvements Investment in Standards Delegated Administration and Hosted Scenarios Optimized Content Delivery

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