1. Damian Leibaschoff Support Escalation Engineer Microsoft Rod White Support Engineer Microsoft

2. System Health Vision Security Software Updates Critical Alerts Backup Reporting

3. Provide base operational monitoring and policy definitions for SBS server, 2nd server, and all domain joined clients. System Health pillars include Security Software Updates SBS Critical Alerts Backup

4. E-mail anti-malware/ anti-spam Via Forefront Security for Exchange* and OneCare for Server* Monitoring of client file system anti-virus and anti-spyware Rolled up status recovered from Vista/XP Security Center Status recovery is real time Note: *Important: "Limited Time Trial Subscription “ only

5. Integration with WSUS 3.0 (SP1) Auto approved all critical/security and definition updates Client O/S – download/install/restart if appropriate Server O/S – download and notify – administrator to initiate install Client exclusion supported Important: Please set the expectation that once SBS 2008 is installed, updates will be applied to non-compliant systems – restarts will occur

6. Approval scope can be modified (via WSUS) Removing critical and security updates will turn updates into yellow: Warning Administration of SUM kept to a minimum Administrator will need to approve updates with revised SLTs UI will expose ‘optional updates’

7. Monitoring of auto start services (server) Key events (server) Backup Licensing Networking Security Thresholds (clients and server) Disk usage Monitoring of all other critical alerts ‘Catch All’ for all critical alerts within the server event logs

8. Home page score card Summary red/yellow/green Computers page Per computer status Detailed per alert description Daily summary/weekly detailed reports E-mail/UI Catch All events only in the reports

9. System Health calls backup APIs to recover state Green – Last SBS 2008 Server backup successful Yellow – Backup on the server not configured Red – Last SBS 2008 Server backup failed

10. 2 Default reports Cannot be removed You can add new ones Historical archive available

11. Partner Profile NextStep Networking Cincinnati, OH 15 Employees 115 active customers Customer segment focus: SMB Solution focus areas: MSPP Level: Microsoft Gold Partner TAP Customer Profile City of Mt. Healthy 15 desktops Business Focus: Local Government Key Pain Points: How will SBS 2008 help:

12. 2008 TAP Experience Positive feedback from the clients; Stable environment Migration was straight forward and did not require any third party products Migration was non-intrusive and did not require much downtime As a member of the TAP we are able to get answers to any issues quickly and easily Health and Monitoring now includes the entire domain not just the SBS server Key features Comprehensive monitoring Weekly alerting allows for increase in reliability Weekly alerting allows your staff to be more productive by allowing them to quickly determine the health of a network and be able to prioritize work Weekly and Monthly Reports can be used to drive sales for time and material clients What specifically do you recommend the partners do next, in priority order? Participate in events like this one… get together with those who know Install it on a test server and get your hands dirty – add some workstations and see how beneficial the monitoring is

14. Customized reports Includes status for server and clients Real-time server and client health status Firewall, AV, anti-spyware Updates General alerts Centralized update management OneCare anti-malware on the server "Limited time trial" Forefront Security for Exchange "Limited time trial"

15. Default components File system AV WMI query to Security Center Anti-spyware WMI query to Security Center Anti-spam CMDLET in Powershell E-mail antivirus FSE utilities Extensibility for third party ISVs Client reports based on WMI queries

16. Works on top of WSUS 3 SP1 Defaults Server Approve critical, security, and definition updates for installation Download, update, and notify Client Approve critical, security, service packs, and definition updates for installation Install updates at 3 AM Other updates need to be approved for install to either servers or clients

17. Three group policies Update services client computers Update services common settings Update service server computers Security filtering on client and server GPOs Machines can be excluded from this process Burden on administrator to manually update

18. Same scan engine solution as Forefront Client Security Server file exceptions configured by default No firewall component on server SKU Backup component disabled Use the SBS provided backup solution Only 25 machines if using a OneCare circle Use the SBS Console to monitor all clients

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