Today is officially the first day of Microsoft TechEd 2013, and to kick off the day is the keynote session. Brand Anderson, from Microsoft started us off. Themes:
- Users and devices want great apps
- Major updates to nearly all Microsoft datacenter products
What’s new in Windows
- Ian McDonald, from Windows Core Group
- Windows Azure is running nearly all Windows Server 2012
- Windows 8.1 will be released this year – free upgrade for Windows 8. Preview bits available June 26th.
- Start screen control on Win8.1: Export start screen config to XML file via PowerShell, then use GPO to deploy XML file to computers.
- Windows 8.1 industry edition (from the embedded line) will provide the ability to restrict start screen and MS app store access to only certain apps.
- Windows 8.1 will have built-in “mirror cast”. Uses ScreenBeam for conference room/presentations for PowerPoint.
- Passive NFC tag on wifi printer, and Windows tablet will read the NFC tag and automatically pair.
- Windows 8.1 will simplify WiFi connectivity and tethering.
- Windows apps will now support micro VPN. An app can create its own VPN and can use virtual smart card.
- Windows 8 is the first MS OS to fully deliver on the trustworthy computing effort started 10 years ago.
- Security is a huge focus on Windows 8.1
- 2560 x 1440 Toshiba ultrabook with Windows 8 demod
Empower People-Centric IT
- 1.2 billion smart devices sold around the world in the last 12 months
- BYOD is a “right” to many employees
- Empower your end users, unify your environment, help protect your data
- Cloud optimized Windows Azure Active Directory
- 265 billions authentications against Azure AD so far. 9K requests a second.
- 420,000 unique domains in Azure AD
- With Windows InTune if devices are on the internet, you can fully manage them via the cloud
- 35,000 unqiue tenants using Azure InTune
Announcements – Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and Windows InTune updates
- Microsoft is now releasing “cloud first” products and a rapid candence in new products
- Windows Server 2012 R2: Workplace join their devices to active directory. Device is also authenticated, so IT is aware of the devices and can deny access (to services such as SharePoint).
- Leverages Windows Azure authentication for “workplace join”
- Dual factor authentication – Supports phone factor (calls the user to sign in via their phone)
- Able to turn on IT management of a BYOD devices. Device is registered with Azure AD and InTune services.
- Windows Server 2012 R2 “Work folders” to enable users to access their files across all devices.
- “Leave your work place” and turn off management to remove your BYOD from the corp network. De-installs corp apps and removes data. Selective wipe.
Modern Applications
- Time to Market, Revolutionary technology, organizational readiness
- Azure and Visual store core concepts: Rapid lifecycle, multi-device, any data, any size, secure and available
- Azure is now expanding with a datacenter in mainland China
- EasyJet is now changing to allocated seating, vice open seating. Major IT changes and leveraged Azure instead of their reservation system. Browser blends Azure services and their own site.
- Web page makes AJAX request to Azure and one panel on their page shows aircraft seating, rules, etc. Azure sends events to their on-site web page regarding seat selection.
- EasyJet fills 10 planes a minute in their January server and they easily scale up the Azure services to handle the load.
- Scott Guthrie – Azure VP. Announcing Azure dev/test features.
- No charge for stopped VMs! Per-minute billing instead of per-hour billing. Pro-rated billing.
- MSDN subscribers get discounted Azure rates for dev/test. Up to 97% discount on standard rates.
- MSDN subscription with upto $150 of monthly credits. Pro $50, Premium $100, ultimate $150
- Azure management portal updated to show hours/credits for MSDN and how much is left, with burndown chart.
- Goto www.windowsazure.com and activate your MSDN offer
- Visual Studio is now using a continous update model. Visual Studio 2013 and team foundation server 2013 will come out this year. Preview version on June 26th at Build conference.
- Announced “cloud load testing” lets you load test your app from the cloud
- “Heads up display” in Visual Studio 2013
- InRelease acquired by Microsoft to help you scale release processes
- In 5 years we will have 10x the data we have now
- 85% of generated data is created by new devices (sensors, RFID, etc.)
SQL Server 2014 Announced
- Big Data – GPS telemetry from consumers
- Real-time data analysis; in memory processing
- Find, combine, manage, analyze, refine, take action and operationalize at scale
- From Data to insight. Must be easy, powerful, complete
- Excel “data explorer” feature. Powerful data analysis with Azure hooks
- Hybrid backup to Azure
- Transaction processing in-memory
- Building transaction data processing right into the database engine and in-meory, not a separate product
- Near realtime data processing capability using in-memory
- Excel project Geoflow – In preview. Maps excel data right onto a map in real time
Transform the Datacenter
- Cloud options on demand, reduced cost and complexity, rapid response to the business
- Datacenter without boundaries, cloud innovation everywhere, dynamic application delivery
- Windows Azure runs entirely on Hyper-V
- Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 announced
- R2 releases focus on Azure lesson learned and bake it into the product
- Designed for the cloud, but delivering to the customer
- Consistency across clouds (on-premises, Windows Azure, service provider)
- Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2
- High density web servers (5K web sites on a single server)
- Self-service Azure portal brought to your datacenter
- Azure density and scale delivered internally with System Center and WS2012 R2
- VM provisioning workflows (standardize and automate provisioning)
- Able to scope provisionion options per-user
- Hyper-V Live migrate across different versions of Windows server
- “Cloud innovation everywhere” demo by Jeff Woosley
- Windows Server 2012 R2 – Dramatic performance and scale improvements. Automated block-level data tiering.
- 16x performance improvement in IOPS and data tiering
- Windows Server 2012 R2: Deduped running Hyper-V VMs and provide BETTER performance
- VMs booting on de-duped storage boot more than 2x faster than non-deduped
- Live Migration with no-shared storage performance improvements in WS2012 R2 – Live Migration compression for much faster migrations
- RDMA support for live migration and SMB direct – super fast Live Migrations
- Hyper-V recovery manager – Multi-site recovery and runs on Azure
- Supports planned and unplanned DR site orchestration (runbook in the cloud)
