Zero Administration Directions and Technologies Dan Plastina Group Program Manager Windows Administration Personal & Business Division Microsoft Corporation USENIX -- Large Scale System Administration of Windows NT Workshop August 14, 1997 -- Seattle

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Zero Administration Directions and Technologies Dan Plastina Group Program Manager Windows Administration Personal & Business Division Microsoft Corporation USENIX -- Large Scale System Administration of Windows NT Workshop August 14, 1997 -- Seattle

State of the Industry

Zero Administration One Slide Definition

Reducing Desktop TCO Today

Reducing Desktop TCO Tomorrow

Reducing Desktop TCO Key Windows NT 5.0 TCO Features

IntelliMirror™ Microsoft Windows Platform Briefing

IntelliMirror™ User Benefits

IntelliMirror™ Infrastructure

Policy-based Management Group Policy

Policy as applied to Pat

Group Policy

Application Management Fundamental Components

App Deployment Model Assigned & Published Applications

Deployment Process

Roaming + Client-side Caching Where to store user state? Client or server?

Remote Boot Goals

Remote Boot

Remote Boot (cont’d)

Scenario: New Machine

Scenario: Existing Machine

Scenario: New Document Type

Scenario: Roaming User

Scenario: Machine Failure

Down-level ZAW Support Windows 9x and NT 4

Windows Management Services

Web-Based Enterprise Mgmt A Single Model for Management Data

Windows Management Services

Windows Scripting Host Simpler, Easier Scripting

Management Console

Conclusion

What to do next 7 steps to lowering TCO

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