Steve Douglas

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Steve Douglas Principal Systems
Engineer Microsoft Ltd
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Agenda

• Product Goals and Feature Review
• Overall Architecture
• Richer Management Information
• Richer Software Distribution
• Improved (and more!) Administration tools
• Demonstration

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Systems Management ServerComprehensive solution
for managing distributed Windows systems

• Automated Hardware Software Inventory
• Software Distribution Installation
• Remote Help Desk, Performance Analysis and
  Troubleshooting
• Network Monitoring
• Y2k Compliance Checking
• Software Metering
• Extensible Foundation

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SMS 2.0 Feature Review

• Software Metering
• Detects and monitor all applications (EXE, COM,
  etc.)
• Supports suite licensing
• Active control or passive monitoring
• Restrict usage by license quota, user, group,
  machine, or time
• NDS Support
• Support for native NDS clients
• Support for Novell Client32
• Discovery of Netware resources
• System Status Reporting
• Job status tracking
• Background DB maintenance
• SMS Installer
• Application re-packager
• Installation roll-back
• Multi-generational patching
• SMS status reporting
• New Status Messages
• Security Configuration

• Server setup
• Simplified dialog sequence
• Evaluation (reviewer) mode
• No PDC/BDC requirement
• Secondary site setup from CD
• Configurable sec-site upgrade
• SMS 1.2 upgrade/interoperability
• Admin UI
• Integrated with MMC
• Extensible framework
• Active HTML help
• Client UI
• 32-bit version simpler, cleaner
• Design based on Win 2000 ZAW UI
• Scalability Performance
• Multi-threaded de-spooler and scheduler
• Database schema re-designed
• SQL Triggers replace DB polling
• Communication

• Software Distribution
• Rules-based dynamic targeting
• Flexible targeting rule set
• Unattended installation on client
• Automated Program Removal
• 32-bit Hardware inventory
• WBEM schema data for accuracy and consistency
• Only delta MIFs transferred by client to server
• 16-bit Hardware inventory
• Improved accuracy
• Software inventory re-design
• Based on version resources
• Audit rule database obsoleted
• Netmon 2.0
• Real-time capture
• Expert framework
• NetDiscovery
• Discover topology
• Discover devices

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Overall Architecture
Central site
Primary site
Primary site
Secondary site
Primary site
Secondary site
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Richer Management Information

• Hardware inventory
• 32-bit platforms use WBEM providers
• Configurable inventory coverage
• History now available
• 16 Bit Rewritten remove inaccuracies
• Software inventory discovery based
• Audit rules dropped in favour of file scan
• Client scans machine noting files found
• Notifies server of changed files only
• Server collates data on all files in site
• Extensible Y2K database

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Richer Management Information (Network Discovery)

• Aim To discover the network topology within an
  SMS site and all systems and devices attached to
  it
• Constraint Must use passive techniques as far as
  possible to minimize impact on the network
• Techniques ARP, DHCP, OSPF, RIP, WINS, DNS,
  NetBIOS and SNMP

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Richer Management Information (WMI)
Unified view of the managed environment without
proprietary frameworks or management interfaces
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Change Configuration Requirements/Challenges

• Scaleable solution
• WAN aware
• Dynamic automatically respond to changes in
  environment
• Full application lifecycle management
• Deploy
• Upgrade
• Rollback
• Remove
• State Management

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Richer Software Distribution(Rules-based
distribution)
Making SMS more responsive to the enterprise

• Benefits to administrators include
• Dynamic targeting of desktops
• Rich targeting rule-set
• Once only targetting
• User Benefits
• Applications available at the right time and place

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Collections, Packages and Advertisements
Collection
Package
Advertisement
Custom setup
Binary Source
Min setup
Typical setup
Resources
Programs
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What SoftwareCan Be Distributed?

• Commercial or custom applications
• Data files
• Housekeeping tasks, such as virus checks or disk
  defragmentation
• Any task that can be run fromthe local client
• Ini file changes
• Registry updates
• Packages do not have to include files!!!!

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Better Administration

• Remote control improvements
• Better remote control performance
• Data compression, TCP not UDP
• Network Discovery
• Network Trace facility
• Software Metering support
• Network Monitor improvements
• Real-time Monitors
• Expert interfaces

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Richer Management Information (Network Trace)

• Offer view of SMS site components
• Based on auto-discovered data
• Correlated to SMS database
• Offer polling of selected SMS and network devices
• Process and thread status
• Ping for presence QOS later
• Provide trace of point-to-point routes between
  SMS services
• Tool for Site planning

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Software Metering

• Monitor all applications running on servers and
  workstations (EXE, COM, etc.)
• Detects and monitors unregistered applications
• Supports suite licensing
• Provides active control or passive monitoring of
  a licensed application
• Can restrict application usage by licence quota,
  user, group, workstation, or time

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Software Metering

• Not affected by file renaming
• Recognizes different program versions
• Detects disabling of client agent
• Supports mobile users via a check-in/check-out of
  the license
• Supports licence balancing within and between
  sites

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Network Monitor 2.0Better Administration

• Real-time network packet monitors
• Simple COM API to real-time capture
• Useful monitors ship with Opal
• Easy for users to develop custom monitors
• Analysis Expert framework
• Analyses captured traffic
• Multiple experts can be applied to data
• SDK allows new experts to be developed

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Further References

• stevedo_at_microsoft.com
• www.microsoft.com/smsmgmt
• www.microsoft.com/management
• wbem.freerange.com

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SMS 2.0 Demonstration