1. Making Your Life Easier with Windows Server 2003 R2 Troy Kirkland Senior Consultant Microsoft Services Microsoft NZ

2. What Will We Cover? Microsoft Branch Office Infrastructure Solution Windows Distributed File System Windows Remote Management Tools Windows Print Management Console

3. Moving from Reactive to Proactive Scalability (horizontal) Availability (replication) People working together (replication)

4. OperatingSystem

5. Helpful Experience Level 250 Familiarity with Microsoft Active Directory Basic knowledge of file replication Basic knowledge of Microsoft Networks

6. Examining Branch Office Challenges Understanding Windows DFS Managing DFS Using DFS in the Branch Office Understanding the R2 PMC Agenda

7. Branch Office Terminology Hub Branch Offices Microbranch Autonomous Branch

8. Branch Office Challenges Branch Office Hub Office Centralized Servers WAN Dependent High Latency Branch Servers More Administration Data Continuity

9. Microsoft Branch Office Solutions Branch Office http://www.microsoft.com/branchoffice Hub Office The New Branch Office Server Service Cache Automatic Failover Self Healing

10. R2 Branch Office Technologies Hub Office Branch Office Powerful Technologies Remote Management Powerful Replication Network Acceleration

11. Examining Branch Office Challenges Understanding Windows DFS Managing DFS Using DFS in the Branch Office Understanding the R2 PMC Agenda

12. Distributed File System Overview New Zealand Australia Sydney Branch Office User Virtual Namespace

13. DFS Namespace Features Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2003 R2 Site Proximity Sorting Multiple DFS NamespacesUNC Path SupportImproved Management ToolsLink Target PrioritizationImproved Fail-Back Control

14. DFS Management Console Hierarchical Namespace ViewDrag and Drop SupportRename and Move NamespacesDelegate Administrative Control

15. Windows Server 2003 R2 Introduction to DFS

16. DFS Replication Features Connection typeSave full 3.5MBSave with RDC 56Kbps modem10 minutes3 seconds 500Kbps DSL70 seconds<1 second Uses Remote Differential Compression Active Directory Based Configuration

17. RDC Compression Original file Canonical file Updated file Client Server The quick fox jumped over the lazy dog who was asleep. The quick fox jumped over the lazy dog who was asleep. The quick fox jumped over the lazy brown dog who was asleep. Requestfile Differentialhash Transferchanges the lazy brown dog

18. RDC Reduction Factors Bandwidth Reduction Factors: RDC vs. Full File Transfer 409 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 292 92 41 30 31 17 15 13 3 450.VSD 318 K.DOC 489 K.DOC 2.6 M.MPP241K.PPT594K.XLS2.4M.ZIP348K.HTM425K.PPT3.9M.PST293M

19. Windows Server 2003 R2 Remote Differential Compression (RDC)

20. Examining Branch Office Challenges Understanding Windows DFS Managing DFS Using DFS in the Branch Office Understanding the R2 PMC Agenda

21. DFS Management Tools

22. Command Line Tools Dfsradmin Powerful administrative tool Fully scriptable Dfsrdiag Powerful reporting Fully scriptable

23. Windows Server 2003 R2 Management

24. Examining Branch Office Challenges Understanding Windows DFS Managing DFS Using DFS in the Branch Office Understanding the R2 PMC Agenda

25. Data Publication Distribute Content Reliable Access DFS Deployment Scenarios Data Collection Consolidate Content Backup Data Loose Collaboration Local Access Content Sharing

26. Data Collection with DFS Sydney Branch Office Virtual Namespace Suva Branch Office RepositoryServer Sydney

27. Data Publication with DFS Fiji Sydney Branch Office Virtual Namespace Suva Branch Office Australia RepositoryServer

28. Data Collaboration with DFS Fiji Virtual Namespace Australia RepositoryServer

29. DFS Feature Summary Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Windows 2003 R2 ReplicationFRS DFS Replication Topology reuseNo Yes RDCNo Yes Bandwidth ThrottlingNo Yes Schedule granularity1 hour 15 minute Scalability (Connections)200 ~1000 Scalability (Files)250k No Hard limit Auto-recoveryNo Yes

30. Examining Branch Office Challenges Understanding Windows DFS Managing DFS Using DFS in the Branch Office Understanding the R2 PMC Agenda

31. Print Management Console

32. Windows Server 2003 R2 Print Management

33. Session Summary Windows Server 2003 R2 provides powerful Branch Office support Use DFS for enterprise-wide data access Use Print Management to streamline global print operations

34. For More Information www.microsoft.com/branchoffice www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/R2

35. Calls To Action A standard slide will be given to replace this highlighting things like Software Assurance, VSTS Promotion, the beta experience links for IT Pro and Developer, how to get evals, subscribe to MSDN Flash, TechEd dates, etc… I still need to finalise this list Sean

36. Thank You