Business Value of
Windows 2000
Microsoft Corporation
The Real World so far . . .
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Microsoft now running Windows 2000
Active Directory
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three weeks of planning
48 hours to shift, full native mode
resource domain consolidation
>24k users, >40k desktops: many
W2k, most NTW4 and some minor W9x
User base migrating to Windows 2000
The Real World so far . . .
The Boeing Company Continental Airlines Chevron
Compaq Compaq Services Enterprise Partner) Credit
Suisse First Boston (UK) Ernst & Young International
Fujitsu Limited Sprint Hewlett Packard (Enterprise
Partner) ICL (Enterprise Partner) Inacom (Enterprise
Partner) INS (Enterprise Partner) Intel Intesa Microsoft
ITG Johnson & Johnson Lockheed Martin Corporation
Lucent Technologies Merrill Lynch Philip orris NASA
Nedcor Bank (South Africa) NEC Corporation Nortel
Networks Prudential Peoplesoft, Inc. Qwest Reuters
Charles Schwab Siemens Timex Travelers Insurance
Texaco U.S. Air Force University of Texas Voicestream
Wang Global WestPac WorldCom Advanced Networks
Warburg Dillon Read (UBS) Wells Fargo Bank
Windows 2000 Family
Desktop
Server
Windows 2000 Family
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Windows 2000 Professional
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Windows 2000 Server
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4-way SMP
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
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NT Workstation with most-advanced Plug’n Play
and Power Management
Active Directory client
Formerly NTS/EE
8-way SMP, 3 GB, MSCS, IP load balancing
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server (new!)
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32-way SMP & 64 GB Ram capable
Five Business Values of
Windows 2000
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Lower TCO Management and Administration
Advances for Server and Desktop
Fastest Data When You Need It: Improved
Server Performance, Scalability, Reliability
User Productivity When and Where You Most
Need It: Offline Folders and Terminal Services
“One Stop Shopping” with Active Directory:
Interoperability and the Metadirectory Story
Strategic Development Platform for BackOffice
and LOB Applications
Windows 2000
Lowering TCO
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Administration
Administration by role, delegation as
needed (Active Directory!)
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Software installation and
management Install, configure, repair,
remove (Intellimirror!)
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User settings management
Control the desktop applications and
look/feel via Active Directory/Group
Policy (Intellimirror!)
Group Policy
Headquarters
IT Staff
Engineering
Accounting
Houston
San Antonio
Windows 2000
Fastest Data When You Need It
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Application Performance: Very Large
Memory (VLM) is supported
High Availability: Clustering and IP Load
Balancing
Clustering in Windows 2000
Clients
Network Load Component Load
Balancing
Balancing (COM+)
Application High
Availability Clustering
( Cluster Service)
Internet Clients
COM+ Components
IIS Web Server ( Any IP based services)
Application Servers
SQL, Exchange, File
Windows 2000
User Productivity When and Where You
Most Need It
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Offline Folders (Intellimirror!)
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Redirect “My Documents” to the network
 Control the volume of user data: NTFS
v5 user quotas!
Make users productive on network data with
or without a network connection using
Offline Folders
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Mobile users can access “network” data on a
plane!
Terminal Services
Terminal Services for Apps . . .
Windows
2000
Terminal
Server
Server has apps ...
RAS
IIS
Internet
via ActiveX
Client
Mac
PPTP
UNIX
Corporate Intranet
Modem
POS / Remote Sites / Branch
Offices
… That Clients Run Anywhere!
Windows 2000
“One Stop Shopping” with Active Directory
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What is “Active Directory”?
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Directory Service is a database of
objects on a LAN.
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Where is my printer? What rights does
Jon Smith have? Etc.
Active Directory is Windows 2000’s
Directory Service
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replaces and greatly advances the
Windows NT4.0 SAM
Windows 2000 Active Directory
Windows Users
• Account info
• Privileges
• Profiles
• Policy
Other
Directories
• White pages
• E-Commerce
Other NOS
• User registry
• Security
• Policy
E-Mail Servers
• Mailbox info
• Address book
Windows Clients
• Mgmt profile
• Network info
• Policy
Windows Servers
• Mgmt profile
• Network info
• Services
• Printers
• File shares
• Policy
Network Devices
• Configuration
• QoS policy
• Security policy
Active
A Focal Point for:
Directory • Manageability
• Security
• Interoperability
Applications
• Server config
• Single Sign-On
• App-specific
directory info
• Policy
Internet
Firewall Services
• Configuration
• Security Policy
• VPN policy
Windows 2000 and the Metadirectory
ERP
Applications
Human
Resources
Database
Active Directory
Database
Zoomit Technologies
Windows 2000
Meta-Data
Active
Directory
Interoperability!
Other NOS
Directory
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Microsoft is integrating technologies from
recent acquisition of Zoomit Corp.
Provides advanced connectivity for varied
directory data (including NDS!)
Windows 2000
Strategic Development Platform
 Backoffice applications leverage
Windows 2000 kernel job-protection for
reliability and VLM for performance.
 Microsoft Transaction Server and
Message Queue Services provide
reliable, consistent n-tier application
support.
 Windows 2000 E-Commerce Platform-IPSEC, VPN, Kerberos, SSL, IIS5, Proxy
Server. The tools and foundation for
great E-Commerce are there!
Five Business Values of
Windows 2000
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Lower TCO Management and Administration
Advances for Server and Desktop
Fastest Data When You Need It: Improved
Server Performance, Scalability, Reliability
User Productivity When and Where You Most
Need It: Offline Folders and Terminal Services
“One Stop Shopping” with Active Directory:
Interoperability and the Metadirectory Story
Strategic Development Platform for BackOffice
and LOB Applications
Windows 2000
Questions And Answers