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2. Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto Future of Your Server Room Three Pillars of Windows Server 2008 Virtualization Today and Tomorrow Take Control of Your Network Bring Security to the Forefront Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto

3. Management Challenges Management of mixed PM/VM environments requires specialized tools Management of the desktop and application patching process Proactive maintenance and monitoring of client computers Inventory of hardware and applications deployed in the environment Transitioning to a virtual environment Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto

4. IT Service Management Data Protection Manager ‘Service Desk’ Capacity Planner Reporting Manager Operations Manager Data Storage & Recovery Problem Management Capacity Management IT Reporting Operations Management Systems Management Server Operations Manager Performance & Availability Monitoring Software Update & Deployment Enabler for Microsoft’s Best Practices Microsoft Operations Framework Infrastructure Optimization

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6. IT Delivers Services; Not Servers Web Orders Application Web Server Clients Middleware Database Physical Network Web Orders Service Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto

7. Operations Manager 2007 Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto 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

8. Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto Demo Manage and Monitor With Operations Manager 2007

9. Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto 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 Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto

10. 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 Audit Event Source:Security Event Category:Logon/Logoff Event ID:538 Date:1/1/2007 Time:00:00:01 AM User:DOMAIN\ServiceAccountName Computer:COMPUTERNAME Description: User Logoff: User Name:ServiceAccount Domain:DOMAIN Logon ID:(0x0,0x1773D2) Logon Type:10 Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto

11. Flexible Client Monitoring Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto 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 on individual 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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13. Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto 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 Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto

14. Audit Collection Services Requirement Compliance requirement to centrally collect, monitor, report and archive security events Maintain audit trail of internal security related activities Requires highly scalable and secure collection infrastructure for huge volume of security events Key Design Principles Near real time exporting of all security events Immutable collection policy Network friendly Scalable Efficient storage Schematized events OpsMgr Audit Collection Integrated the ACS technology into the OpsMgr infrastructure Out of the box customizable reports Functionality included in the OpsMgr 2007 OMLs Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto

15. Event Log Collection Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto Monitored Clients Monitored Servers Audit DB Audit Collector Events subject to tamperingEvents under control of auditors Data Archival

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17. Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto Integration of OpsMgr & VMM OpsMgr is the window to your environment Integration with VMM to provide reporting on VS hosts Determine which physical machines should be virtualized

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19. Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto 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

20. Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto Resources Microsoft.ca/technet/fosr/resources Systemcentertraining.com Blogs.technet.com/canitpro Blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Toronto

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