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Three Pillars of Windows Server 2008Virtualization Today and TomorrowTake Control of Your NetworkBring Security to the Forefront



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


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!


IT Delivers Services; Not ServersWeb Orders Application

Web Server

Clients

Middleware

Database

Physical Network

Web Orders Service


Operations Manager 2007


• 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


Demo

Manage and MonitorWith Operations Manager 2007


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



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


Flexible Client Monitoring


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


Demo

Client Monitoring


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



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


Event Log Collection


Monitored Clients

Monitored Servers

Audit DBAudit Collector

Events subject to tampering Events under control of auditors

Data Archival


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


Demo

OpsMgr 2007 and VMM Integration


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


Resources

Microsoft.ca/technet/fosr/resources

Systemcentertraining.com

Blogs.technet.com/canitpro

Blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers



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