Gardner Group Conference Cannes

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Gardner Group Conference Cannes

• Christian Trachimow

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Windows 2000 Enhancements (1)

• Directory Service AD
• Application / User interface
• Unicode, ActiveX, COM, Windows Terminal Server
• High availability Microsoft Cluster Server 1.1
• Security
• Encrypted file system, public key certificate
  server, kerberos authentication, IP security
  (IPSEC), SSL, smart card infrastructure
• Storage management
• Media services
• Disk administrator for online management
  (Veritas)
• NTBackup enhancements (Seagate)
• Remote storage management (Eastman / Seagate)
• NTFS improvements (quotas, defragmentation,
  compressed network i/o)
• Dfs

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Windows 2000 Enhancements (2)

• Administration / Management
• Intellimirror, MSI, MMC, WBEM, WMI, WSH, Job
  object, task scheduler
• Networking
• TCP/IP performance, NDIS connection oriented
  support, native ATM, TAPI MM enhancements,
  authentication EAP, RADIUS
• Windows NT 5.0 will not be available in a
  reasonably stable, feature-complete general
  release until at least 1H00 (0.7 probability)
• Organizations should not deploy NT 5.0 at the
  desktop or for midsize deployments until the
  first major proven service pack has been
  delivered (expected year-end 2000, six to nine
  month after the general availability)

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Active Directory

• Active Directory (compared to NDS)
• Global catalogue
• Multi master replication is based on USN (not
  system time)
• The unknowns of Active Directory
• AD was created without licensing any proven
  directory technology
• bandwidth requirements, performance
  characteristics, scalability, replication traffic
• Regardless of any enterprises plans for
  directory services, Microsofts AD will be used at
  least to some extent in more than 50 of all
  enterprises by year-end 2001, increasing to 90
  by year-end 2003 (0.7 probability)

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NT Clusters

• Failover support to most backoffice services and
  system services
• Schedule
• 2000 MSCS 1.1 (2 node failover improvements)
• 2001 MSCS 1.X (4 note failover, 0.7 probability)
• 2001 Shared-nothing SQL Server V8
• Microsoft will continue to drive toward
  shared-nothing, message-passing clustering as the
  ultimate NT scaling method (0.7 probability)

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ZAK, ZAW and TCO

• NT 4.0 (100)
• NT 4.0 ZAK (83 )
• Profiles, policy management, system lock down
• NT 5.0 Intellimirror (80 )
• automated desktop management, software updating,
  roaming user support, machine replacement, remote
  boot, client site caching, offline access
• Enterprise must be aware that organizations that
  want to use ZAK will face user resistance
• ZAW features in NT 5.0 will reduce desktop TCO
  by less than 5 percent over well-managed NT 4.0
  desktops utilizing ZAK (0.8 probability)

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Windows DNA

• OLE (95), ActiveX (96), DNA(97)
• synthesize client server and Web
• framework for developers
• COM
• bring simplicity of COM for VB to other languages
• simpler integration of MTS/MSMQ
• dynamic redirection of requests for service
  (basis for load balancing)
• By 2001, more than half of all new business
  applications will use MTS/COM (0.6 probability)

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The two big players in the future

• Microsoft
• IBM
• IBM will (have to) build a strategic alliance
  with Microsoft
• But there will appear two paradigms for
  distributed application development methods in
  the future
• Windows DNA (40 )
• Java, JavaBeans, Corba (40 )

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Test / Migration

• Setup of a test-domain based on a moved BDC of
  DESYNT
• contains the complete user environment of the
  working domain
• servers (home-dir., dfs, application, ....)
• Upgrade to NT5 step by step (mixed to pure
  environment)
• Update of the basic components
• migration of the management tools
• Setup of the new parts -- tests
• new services - tests
• Definition of NT5 policies
• Decision on the migration path
• Migration