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Brocade is a registered trademark, and the B-wing symbol is a trademarktrademark ofof Brocade Communications Systems,In Inc.c. 0708red_Cover.v8 6/17/08 9:38 AM Page 1 Live Mesh: What’s the Net for Business? 64 JULY 2008 REDMONDMAG.COM Cloud Man As Bill Gates departs, Ray Ozzie takes over Microsoft’s online strategy. 30 +Will Windows Live Live Large? 11 Improved SCCM Gets Readers’ Thumbs Up 20 ISVs Unify Microsoft’s Communications Puzzle 45 Project5 4/16/08 10:02 AM Page 1 Project5 4/16/08 10:03 AM Page 2 Project3 6/17/08 9:52 AM Page 1 Automate IT > Green Computing with Kaseya Kaseya provides the power management tools necessary to minimize environmental impact and maximize power efficiency. > Visit Kaseya.com/download for a FREE TRIAL How often do you get a chance to do something good for the environment and save Automate IT money too? Managing the power on your desktops and laptops is a great way to save energy and save money. Going green with Kaseya not only saves on your energy bill it makes your systems run better too. What’s more, you can do it all remotely so you • Computer Inventory/Audit • Help Desk/Trouble Ticketing don’t need a truck roll just to fix a problem. All this reduces your carbon footprint • Remote Desktop Management • Network Policy Enforcement while improving service levels. • Out-of-Band Management with INTEL® vPRO™ Technology It’s about Automating IT and Kaseya delivers the ultimate solution. It’s web based, • Cross Platform Support (PC and Mac) cost effective, easy to deploy and has all the capability to remotely manage, secure • Patch Management and protect the health of IT systems. And, by automating IT processes, implementing • Backup and Disaster Recovery best practices and providing consistent customer service levels, even while going • Network Monitoring/Alerts green, you can still wake up an out-of-band PC or Laptop to perform software updates, • Endpoint Security patches, backups and more. • Windows Event Monitoring • User State Management Kaseya raises the bar for the future of IT automation - with everything you need to • Software Deployment/Update provide proactive IT service delivery. Why compromise – Automate IT with Kaseya! kaseya.com 0708red_TOC3.v4 6/17/08 9:19 AM Page 3 Redmond JULY 2008 The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community Contents COVER STORY REDMOND REPORT 11 How Large Will Flying Windows Live Live? Microsoft’s Brian Hall Solo looks to better integrate the Windows Live As his boss Bill Gates departs, Ozzie online strategy. takes Microsoft’s online strategy into the cloud. Page 30 Page 11 FEATURES Page 39 14 Beta Man 39 The Secrets of Sysvol Working Together Windows Server 2008 has a new way to migrate COLUMNS Group Policies. 6 Barney’s Rubble: 45 The Unified Communications Puzzle Doug Barney ISVs look to fill in Cloudy Cloud Costs some of the pieces 51 Never Again of Microsoft’s unified communications vision. Derryl Steib Please Tell Me That Was a DDS-2 Tape Byron Sisson Which One Is for Production? Page 45 54 Mr. Roboto: Jeffery Hicks REVIEWS At Your Self-Service Product Review Head-to-Head 58 Windows Insider: 16 Lock the Door 26 Automation Nation Greg Shields Best Configuration WinMagic SecureDoc’s full-disk encryption IT workflow-automation Manager Queries provides easy-to-use security for laptops and products could be the key to remote users. accelerating your day-to-day 60 Security Advisor: IT tasks and helping you Joern Wettern Reader Review build IT processes. Forget Your Passwords 20 Big Efficiencies for 64 Foley on Microsoft: Big Environments Mary Jo Foley SCCM 2007’s new maintenance, configuration- Does Live Mesh Have a tracking and updated reporting features make Business Future? it a must-have for large Windows sites. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 4 Redmondmag.com | 8 [email protected] | 63 Ad and Editorial Indexes COVER PHOTO BY BRIAN SMALE/BACKGROUND BY CORBIS PHOTO/PHOTO MANIPULATION BY PHILIP HOWE 0708red_OnlineTOC4.v4 6/17/08 9:40 AM Page 4 Redmondmag.comJULY 2008 VirtualizationReview.com Questions with ... Server Virtualization Shoot-Out Per Farny Executive Editor Michael t’s a war out there when it comes to your server virtualization dollars. Domingo talked with Per Farny, ICitrix’s Xen Server, VMware’s ESX and Virtual Iron are three of the Microsoft’s director of advanced products battling it out every day to grab the fastest-growing area of the training and certification, about the virtualization market. new Microsoft Certified Master Peter Varhol recently reviewed these three products head-to-head. “Don’t series. FindIT code: MCPMaster expect any slam-dunk winner from this evaluation,” he writes. “Every approach involves tradeoffs, typically in the areas of cost, features and Where does Microsoft Certified openness. Choosing the best approach for your organization depends on a Master fit into the MCP program? combination of goals, budget and other resources, and the amount of control It fills in the gap between the you have to exercise over the environment.” Microsoft Certified Architect and Find out how the products fared in Varhol’s roundup. FindIT code: VRServRound Professional series. VisualStudioMagazine.com We’ve been hearing about a ‘Series III’ track for some time. Is this now the Masters series? Identify Blocked SQL It’s partly that, but it’s largely an evolu- Processes Quickly tion of our internal ‘Ranger’ program, bringing it into a more public forum. any application performance issues relate to the database. Not Msurprisingly, if you’ve got SQL processes that aren’t functioning the How does the Master series differ way they should, your application isn’t going to run well. from the Technology Specialist and However, finding those blocked processes isn’t always easy. Ian Stark Professional series certs? offers his tips for creating a utility that will help you track these down. Master will require three weeks of “The database block-tracing utility, which I’ve named dba_BlockTracer, training in Redmond [with] five to extracts data about the running processes by inspecting the system view seven different instructors. 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All rights reserved. Brocade is a registered trademark, and the B-wing symbol is a trademark of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 0708red_Rubble6.v3 6/17/08 9:41 AM Page 6 Barney’sRubble by Doug Barney RedmondTHE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF THE MICROSOFT IT COMMUNITY REDMONDMAG.COM JULY 2008 ■ VOL. 14 ■ NO. 7 Editorial Staff Editor in Chief Doug Barney Cloudy Cloud Costs Editor Ed Scannell Executive Editor, Features Lafe Low Executive Editor, Reviews Peter Varhol Managing Editor Wendy Gonchar n the late ’70s and ’80s cable TV snuck into our lives Associate Managing Editor Katrina Carrasco Contributing Editors Mary Jo Foley through gentle enticement. A few bucks a month and Jeffery Hicks Greg Shields you got a clean signal and MTV. For a few dollars more, Joern Wettern I Art Staff you could go for HBO with real movies and no commercials. Art Director Brad Zerbel Senior Graphic Designer Alan Tao Next we needed cell phones. 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