Windows 7 Feature Overview

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• #3: Slide Title: FeedbackKeywords: Key Message: Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information:
• #7: Slide Title: Windows 7 for the EnterpriseKeywords: Windows 7Key Message: Windows 7 for the EnterpriseSlide Builds: 2Slide Script: User productivity is enhanced, no matter what their location. SMB 2.0 and IPv6 provide faster, more scalable and efficient access to network resources. Direct Access and Branch Cache provide users with seamless access to applications and data from anywhere. VDI enhancements provide users a rich desktop experience from unmanaged or thin clients.[BUILD1] Sensitive data is protected. NAP and server and domain isolation enable policy-based network security by allowing only healthy PCs from accessing network resources.[BUILD2] Manageability is enhanced. Direct Access can be used to update and manage mobile PCs even when not on the corporate the network. RDS publishes server-based applications directly to users’ desktops. Event forwarding can centrally aggregate important client and server events to the help desk.Slide Transition: Networking features have been improved with Windows 7.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd361745.aspx?ITPID=mscomsc
• #9: Slide Title: DirectAccessKeywords: DirectAccessKey Message: DirectAccess is a new network paradigm that enables the same experience inside and outside the office.Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: Easy access to applications and data when out of the office is an essential component of any enterprise IT strategy. DirectAccess, a new feature in Windows 7, enables remote users to access the corporate network as long as they have an Internet connection and Windows Server 2008 R2 and without the extra step of initiating a virtual private network (VPN) connection. For IT professionals, DirectAccess simplifies IT management by providing an “always managed” infrastructure, in which user PCs outside the office can remain healthy, managed, and updated. Slide Transition: We will now describe the demo environment.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/dd420463.aspx
• #10: Slide Title: Demonstration EnvironmentKeywords: demonstrationKey Message: Describe the demonstration environment being used.Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: The presenter’s demonstration computer will contain 5 virtual machines named SEA-DC-01, SEA-DC-01, SEA-CRL-01, SEA-WRK-001 and SEA-WRK-002. The 5 virtual machines will be able to communicate with each other, but will not be able to communicate with the Internet, or with other host computers or the virtual machines running on them. Slide Transition: The first demonstration will cover DirectAccess.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information:
• #11: Slide Title: Demonstration: Introducing Direct AccessKeywords: Introducing Direct AccessKey Message: Introducing Direct AccessSlide Builds: 0Slide Script: In this demonstration, you will complete the DirectAccess setup through the DirectAccess Management console. Then, you will see how to connect to application servers through the DirectAccess server.Slide Transition: BranchCache caches content downloaded from file and Web servers.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information:
• #12: Slide Title: BranchCacheKeywords: BranchCache Key Message: BranchCache caches content downloaded from file and Web servers.Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: Windows 7 introduces BranchCache, which caches content from the remote file and Web servers in the local branch network so that additional users can more quickly access this information. BranchCache supports the same network protocols that are commonly used in enterprises—namely, HTTP(S) and SMB—so that any applications based on these protocols can benefit from the technology. BranchCache also supports network security protocols (such as SSL and IPSec), helping to ensure that only authorized clients can access requested data. You can implement BranchCache in two ways. With Hosted Cache you can implement it by storing the cached content on a dedicated BranchCache server located in the branch office, which improves cache availability. This is likely be the most popular way of implementing BranchCache, and it is intended for larger branch offices where numerous users need to access the BranchCache feature simultaneously. A BranchCache server at the remote site ensures that content is always available, and it also maintains end-to-end security for all content requests.
• #13: The second implementation scenario is Distributed Cache and centers around peer content requests, and it is intended solely for use in very small remote offices, with about 5-10 users, that don’t warrant a dedicated local server resource. In this implementation, the BranchCache server at the corporate intranet receives a client content request. If the content has been previously requested at the remote site, the server will return a set of hash directions to the content’s location on the remote network, usually another worker’s computer. The content is then served from this location. If the content was never requested, or if the user who previously requested the content is offsite, then the request is fulfilled normally across the WAN.Slide Transition: Search Federation provides a consistent experience when searching for data across multiple locations.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://edge.technet.com/Media/Branch-Cache-in-Windows-7/
• #14: Slide Title: Search FederationKeywords: Search FederationKey Message: Search Federation provides a consistent experience when searching for data across multiple locations. Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: Search Federation in Windows 7 provides out-of-the-box support for searching corporate data beyond the user’s PC. IT professionals can easily enable search engines, document repositories (such as Office SharePoint sites), Web applications, and proprietary data stores to be searched from Windows 7. This enables end users to search the corporate intranet almost as easily as they can search their local files—all from within the same familiar Windows interface.Slide Transition: Let’s take a look at Search Federation in action.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/enterprise/products/search-information.aspx
• #15: Slide Title: Demonstration: Using Search FederationKeywords: Using Search Federation Key Message: Using Search Federation.Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: The demonstration will show you how Search Federation works to search and connect to local intranet Web sites. Slide Transition: The next item on the agenda is management improvements.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information:
• #17: Slide Title: Windows Powershell 2.0Keywords: Windows PowerShell 2.0Key Message: Windows PowerShell 2.0 is new in Windows 7.Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: The Windows PowerShell command-line shell and scripting language helps IT Professionals automate common tasks. Using a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 120 standard command-line tools, and consistent syntax and utilities, Windows PowerShell allows IT professionals to more easily manage system administration and to accelerate automation. Windows PowerShell is easy to adopt and use, because it works with the existing IT infrastructure and existing script investments. It allows users to automate server management and administration tasks, along with the deployment of server roles, such as Terminal Server.Windows PowerShell integrates the command-line shell and scripting language to allow administrators to more efficiently complete and automate system administration tasks. Windows PowerShell improves upon the Windows Command Prompt and Windows Script Host (WSH) by providing cmdlets (command-line tools) that have the exact same syntax as the scripting language. The command that is typed in the Windows PowerShell command prompt is the same command that would be used in a script for automating the task across multiple servers. The Out-Gridview cmdlet sends the output from a command to a grid view window where the output is displayed in an interactive table. This table view enables you to search, sort, group, and filter the output of a cmdlet. For example, you can send the results of a Get-Process, Get-Wmiobject, or Get-Eventlog command to Out-Gridview and use the table features to examine the data.
• #18: Windows Powershell 2.0 now also includes remoting. You type a command on your computer, and then that command is transmitted via WinRM and the SOAP protocol to the remote machine. These transmissions are encrypted and secure. In return, a new instance of PowerShell is instantiated on the remote computer. The command you issued runs on the remote machine, and then the output is sent back to your computer. In other words, remoting involves a “conversation” between two instances of PowerShell: one on your computer, one on the remote computer.Slide Transition: We will now demonstrate some of the new improvements in Group Policy.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/newin2.mspx
• #19: Slide Title: Group Policy ImprovementsKeywords: Group PolicyKey Message: Group Policy ImprovementsSlide Builds: 0Slide Script: The following changes are available in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 with Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) installed. Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on remote computers that are running Windows Server 2008 R2 (and, for some roles and features, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003) from a remote computer that is running Windows 7. It includes support for remote management of computers that are running either the Server Core or full installation options of Windows Server 2008 R2, and for some roles and features, Windows Server 2008.With Windows 7, there is the addition of Windows PowerShell cmdlets for Group Policy. These cmdlets give you the ability to manage Group Policy from the Windows PowerShell command line and to run PowerShell scripts during logon and startup. You can use the Group Policy cmdlets to perform several tasks for domain-based Group Policy objects (GPOs): you can maintain GPOs, associate GPOs with Active Directory containers, set inheritance flags and permissions on Active Directory organizational units (OUs) and domains, configure registry-based policy settings and Group Policy Preference Registry settings, and create and edit Starter GPOs. Windows 7 also includes AppLocker and Bitlocker drive encryption GPOs.
• #20: Group Policy Preferences let you manage drive mappings, registry settings, local users and groups, services, files, and folders—without the need to learn a scripting language. The client-side extensions for these new types of preference items are included in Windows 7: Power Plan preference items, Scheduled Task preference items, Immediate Task preference items, and Internet Explorer 8 preference items.Slide Transition: Let’s move onto the next demonstration: Using Windows PowerShell 2.0Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd367853.aspx
• #21: Slide Title: Demonstration: Using Windows Powershell 2.0Keywords: Using Windows Powershell 2.0 Key Message: Using Windows Powershell 2.0.Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: In this demonstration, you will see how to use Windows PowerShell 2.0 to manage a remote computer. You will also see how to create a starter Group Policy Object (GPO) using Windows PowerShell 2.0.Slide Transition: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a fast-evolving technology, and Windows 7 delivers the latest enhancements to provide a richer user experience and easier management for IT.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information:
• #22: Slide Title: VDI ImprovementsKeywords: VDI, VHDKey Message: Explain VDI enhancements in Windows 7.Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: Delivering desktop functionality using server-hosted virtual machines—a solution known as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)—is an emerging model for desktop deployment that enables users to access their desktops remotely, utilizing centralizing data, applications, and operating systems.  VDI in Windows 7 gives users an experience that is closer to a local PC experience. It supports the Windows Aero interface, video viewing in Windows Media Player 11, and multiple-monitor configurations. New microphone support enables remote desktops running Windows 7 Enterprise to provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and speech recognition functionality. And the new Easy Print technology enables users to print to local printers without the need to install printer drivers on the server.Slide Transition: The next agenda item is data protection enhancements.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349337.aspx
• #24: Slide Title: BitLocker Drive EncryptionKeywords: BitLocker Drive EncryptionKey Message: BitLocker Drive Encryption is now extended to removable devices.Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: BitLocker Drive Encryption functionality in Windows 7 delivers an improved experience for IT professionals and end users, including the ability to right-click a drive to enable BitLocker protection, automatic creation of the required hidden boot partition, and improved key management. Windows 7 also introduces BitLocker To Go, which provides data protection for removable storage devices, such as USB flash drives. BitLocker To Go gives IT professionals better control over how removable storage devices can be used. For example, IT professionals can require data protection for writing to any removable storage device, while allowing unprotected storage devices to be used in a read-only mode.Slide Transition: AppLocker can remove unwanted applications from your network.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/enterprise/products/windows-7-bitlocker.aspx
• #25: Slide Title: AppLockerKeywords: AppLockerKey Message: AppLocker can remove unwanted applications from your network.Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: Windows 7 reenergizes application control policies with AppLocker: a flexible, easy-to-administer mechanism that allows IT professionals to specify what is allowed to run in the desktop infrastructure and gives users the ability to run applications, installation programs, and scripts that they require to be productive. As a result, IT professionals can enforce application standardization within their organization, while providing improved security, along with operational and compliance benefits. Slide Transition: The next demonstration will show you how to configure AppLocker.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7a919629-4d8b-43c5-8115-78bc30a187c2&DisplayLang=en
• #26: Slide Title: Demonstration: Configuring AppLockerKeywords: Configuring AppLocker Key Message: Configuring AppLockerSlide Builds: 0Slide Script: The demonstration will show you how to configure AppLocker publisher rules through Group Policy. You will also see how Windows 7 clients can install a specific application.Slide Transition: The Windows Troubleshooting Platform, new to Windows 7, is an extensible and powerful platform that IT departments, software developers, and third parties can customize through the use of Windows PowerShell. Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information:
• #27: Slide Title: Troubleshooting ImprovementsKeywords: Troubleshooting PacksKey Message: There are several troubleshooting improvements with Windows 7.Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: The Windows Troubleshooting Platform has two key components: Windows Troubleshooting Packs and Windows Troubleshooting Pack Builder. Windows Troubleshooting Packs are a collection of Windows PowerShell scripts that attempt to diagnose a problem and, if possible, solve the problem with the user’s approval. Troubleshooting Packs can also perform ongoing maintenance of a specific feature. Windows 7 includes 20 built-in Troubleshooting Packs that address more than 100 root causes of problems. Microsoft designed the Troubleshooting Packs to correlate to the top 10 categories of Microsoft support calls, including Power Efficiency, Application Compatibility, Networking, and Sound. Troubleshooting Packs can diagnose complex problems, including those caused by multiple conditions, and prompt the user with tips on how to resolve each of them. The Windows Troubleshooting Pack Builder is a development kit, included with the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK), that includes a graphical tool for IT professionals and developers building Windows Troubleshooting Packs. The toolkit simplifies adding Troubleshooting Pack metadata and links to the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment for authoring detection, resolution, and verification scripts. Because Windows PowerShell is so powerful, you can examine and configure almost any element of the Windows and application environment. You can deploy troubleshooting packages, using Group Policy Preferences to copy them to the local hard drive, or simply store them on a central file server.Slide Transition: Let’s demonstrate some of these troubleshooting techniques.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349347.aspx
• #28: Slide Title: Demonstration: Troubleshooting Windows 7Keywords: Troubleshooting Windows 7 Key Message: Troubleshooting Windows 7Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: This demonstration will show you how to use Windows Troubleshooting Packs to improve power usage.Slide Transition: The last agenda item is power efficiency improvements.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information:
• #30: Slide Title: Improved Battery LifeKeywords: Battery, PowerKey Message: Improvements to power management in Windows 7 will help extend the battery life of your mobile PC. Slide Builds: 3Slide Script: Windows 7 provides diagnostics that enable IT pros to identify problems across their enterprise. This set of diagnostics has been incorporated into the PowerCfg.exe utility, and it enables IT pros to quickly determine common problems that may impact energy efficiency. They can also identify applications and open network files that prevent a computer from entering Sleep and Hibernate modes. Specifically, Windows 7 instruments event tracing for power management and related services. Typing powercfg /ENERGY in an elevated Command Prompt window starts event tracing on the computer. This command generates Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or Extensible Markup Language (XML) reports that identify energy efficiency–related issues. These reports contain information about hardware and software issues that affect battery life and the general health of portable computer batteries. With this knowledge, IT pros are able to determine whether inefficiencies are related to batteries or another source. This tool is particularly well suited for IT Pros that are qualifying new PCs for their organization and for IT Pros that create standard PC images. Additionally, running powercfg /REQUESTS inspects the computer for outstanding availability requests, determining which applications and processes are preventing the computer from automatically going into Sleep mode. IT Pros can use PowerCfg.exe to override individual availability requests that might prevent the computer from entering a low-power state.
• #31: [BUILD1] Windows 7 provides greater idle efficiency by reducing (and in many cases eliminating) background activity on the system. Where periodic activity cannot be eliminated because of strict polling requirements (such as timers on the USB stack), Windows 7 exposes a new timer coalescing feature. Timer Coalescing allows Windows 7 to align various background activities and execute them at the same time to keep the processor idle for longer periods of time. Additionally, Windows 7 defers non-critical background activity when the system is on battery power to help extend the battery life of a portable computer. [BUILD2] Adaptive Display Brightness defines additional power policy settings to dim the display after a period of inactivity. Dimming the display can help reduce the display power consumption, although not as much as turning off the display. Adaptive Display Brightness also supports hardware Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) devices to automatically adjust display brightness to the surrounding ambient light, even when the user is interacting with the system. [BUILD3] Windows 7 improves low-battery notifications, which alert users when their batteries are below a critical threshold. Battery-life notifications provide more timely and accurate information about the status of portable computer batteries in Windows 7, encouraging users to connect to a power source before the computer enters Hibernate mode. As shown in Figure 1, the operating system introduces a threshold at 7 percent, which displays a warning dialog box. Users must take an action to dismiss this warning. This threshold is configurable. These notifications are also more prominent in Windows 7, and they encourage users to be aware of their power consumption. IT pros can manage low-battery thresholds by using Group Policy.Slide Transition: As you have seen, there are many new improvements in Windows 7.Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/01/06/windows-7-energy-efficiency.aspx
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• #39: Slide Title: FeedbackKeywords: Key Message: Slide Builds: 0Slide Script: Slide Comment: To Send feedback on this slide, use the hyperlink on the feedback slide at the start and end of this deck.Additional Information: