Future of theServer Room Tour
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Future of Your Server Room
Three Pillars of Windows Server 2008Virtualization Today and TomorrowTake Control of Your NetworkBring Security to the Forefront
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Management Challenges
Management of mixed PM/VM environments requires specialized toolsManagement of the desktop and application patching processProactive maintenance and monitoring of client computersInventory of hardware and applications deployed in the environmentTransitioning to a virtual environment
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IT Service Management
Data Protection Manager
‘Service Desk’
Capacity Planner
Reporting Manager
Operations Manager
Data Storage & Recovery Problem
ManagementCapacity
Management
IT ReportingOperations
Management
Systems Management
Server
Operations Manager
Performance & AvailabilityMonitoring
Software Update &
Deployment
Enabler for Microsoft’s Best Practices
Microsoft Operations Framework
Infrastructure Optimization
More than just Microsoft!
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IT Delivers Services; Not ServersWeb Orders Application
Web Server
Clients
Middleware
Database
Physical Network
Web Orders Service
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Operations Manager 2007
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• Proactive management of your IT services • Integrated monitoring of distributed applications, the end
user perspective, and supporting infrastructure
• Reduces your problem resolution time• Management packs that include Microsoft expertise
for applications, servers, and clients
• Simplifies managing your IT environment and improves time to value
• Role based security, self monitoring infrastructure, and improved scalability
Best of Breed for Windows
End-to-End Service Management
Increased Efficiency and Control
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Demo
Manage and MonitorWith Operations Manager 2007
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Active Directory Monitoring
• Changes to group memberships• Local or remote logon types• Changes made to OUs, add/remove user,
change permissions• Added or removed OUs• GPO Block Inheritance• GPO No Override
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Monitor Remote Logons– Monitor logons for certain accounts such as service accounts– Logons via Remote Desktop (Logon Type 10)– Windows XP/2003 and up differentiate an interactive logon from a
TS/RD logon
Event Type: Success AuditEvent Source: SecurityEvent Category: Logon/Logoff Event ID: 538Date: 1/1/2007Time: 00:00:01 AMUser: DOMAIN\ServiceAccountNameComputer: COMPUTERNAMEDescription:User Logoff:
User Name: ServiceAccount Domain: DOMAIN Logon ID: (0x0,0x1773D2) Logon Type: 10
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Flexible Client Monitoring
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Agentless Crash Monitoring
• No agent deployment required• Integrates with Windows Error Reporting (Watson)• Visibility to and resolution knowledge for client crashes• Entire Enterprise space
Collective Client Monitoring
• Reporting and alerting on collections of clients • Proactive monitoring of errors, utilization, performance and reliability• Remote diagnostic and troubleshooting tasks• Medium scale within Enterprise
Business Critical Client Monitoring
• Deeper monitoring and alerting onindividual clients
• Verified availability via heartbeat• Host for user perspective transactions• Optional: Security auditing capabilities• Small scale within Enterprise
Level 1 – Client Monitoring
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Demo
Client Monitoring
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Security Monitoring Fundamentals
• Start by identifying what you want to monitor• Enable Auditing to collect events• Simulate those types of activities in a test lab• Further identify the specific Event Parameters to filter
on• Test your rule in your lab environment• Test your rule against a single production DC• Slowly roll out the rule to your entire enterprise to
mitigate risk
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Audit Collection Services Requirement
Compliance requirement to centrally collect, monitor, report and archive security eventsMaintain audit trail of internal security related activitiesRequires highly scalable and secure collection infrastructure for huge volume of security events
Key Design PrinciplesNear real time exporting of all security events Immutable collection policyNetwork friendlyScalableEfficient storageSchematized events
OpsMgr Audit CollectionIntegrated the ACS technology into the OpsMgr infrastructureOut of the box customizable reportsFunctionality included in the OpsMgr 2007 OMLs
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Event Log Collection
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Monitored Clients
Monitored Servers
Audit DBAudit Collector
Events subject to tampering Events under control of auditors
Data Archival
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Demo
Audit Collection Services
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Integration of OpsMgr & VMM
OpsMgr is the window to your environmentIntegration with VMM to provide reporting on VS hostsDetermine which physical machines should be virtualized
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Demo
OpsMgr 2007 and VMM Integration
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Key Points So Far...
Monitor •Clients and servers•Proactive management
Report •Errors occurring on client PCs•Candidates for virtualization
Act •Transition from current virtualization platform•Automate
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Resources
Microsoft.ca/technet/fosr/resources
Systemcentertraining.com
Blogs.technet.com/canitpro
Blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers
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