Windows Management Technologies in Vista and beyond

1. Windows Management Technologies in Vista and beyond Martin DeyDirector, Outbound MarketingWindows and Enterprise Management DivisionMicrosoft Corporation, Redmond

2. Agenda • Group Policy Improvements • WMI Enhancements • WinRM – Windows Remote Management • WS-Man Remote Protocol • WinRS – Windows Remote Shell • New Vista Windows Event Log support • Windows Vista Task Scheduler • New Performance Counter Model • WSUS 3.0 Changes • Windows PowerShell

3. Improvements In Group Policy For Windows Vista • Extends the reach of Group Policy with hundreds more settings • Reliably and efficiently apply policy • Easier to use

4. Extending The Reach Of Group Policy Over 500 new settings across key areas

5. Improvements In Group PolicyApplied more reliably, and easier to use Reliable and Efficient Application of Policy Easier to Use Network aware application of Group Policy Support for editing Group Policy settings in Multilingual Environments Support for Multiple Local GPOs GPMC integrated into Windows Search and filter (Post Vista) Templates (Post Vista)

6. Windows Management Infrastructure (WMI) Enhancements Improve Manageability • Windows Vista includes 13 new WMI Providers: • BitLocker Drive Encryption • Trusted Platform Module • Boot Configuration Database • Intelligent Platform Management Interface • Windows Parental Controls • Network Access Protocol Client • Others…

7. WinRM - Windows Remote Management • Firewall Friendly Remote Access Protocol (Replaces DCOM) • HTTP and HTTPS • Microsoft’s implementation of WS-Management Use WinRM to Access WMI Information over the Internet

8. In-Band And Out Of Band Management console OS Client App Cmdlinetool WSMan Service WSMAN WSMan client WMI EventLog IPMIdriver WSMAN Hardware BMC

9. Remote Shell • Access to Remote shell (cmd.exe) • Batch mode execution of scripts and commands • Access to output streams from remote shell • Input data for prompts • Example usage: Add/Remove server roles, collect inventory, configure Firewall etc • PowerShell will use WinRS for remoting

10. New Vista Event LoggingWindows Eventing 6.0 • Right Data to Diagnose Problems • The right data…but not too much data • Improved supporting data and documentation for all events • Infrastructure Supports Ad-hoc Diagnosis and Management Tools • Schematized events (XML) provide richer information • Easy integration with management tools

11. New Vista Event ViewerUser Experience Dramatically Improved • Single place to view events for all Windows Vista components • Focus on important events with filtering and custom views • Events are actionable • Associate a task with an event with a single click • Event Subscriptions • IT Professionals can subscribe to events and view them centrally • GP Configurable; based on WinRM

12. Event Viewer Drill Down

13. What’s New in Task Scheduler? • Power and Flexibility • Sophisticated Scheduling Options with new triggers, conditional launch, and action chaining • Completely scriptable • Visibility • Task dashboard shows active and upcoming tasks • Improved Reliability and Resource Allocation • Retry tasks in case of failure • Run when next available

14. Task Scheduler: Today And Vista

15. What launches the task? Multiple triggers allowed OR-ed Task Structure Triggers Defines constraints Multiple conditions allowed AND-ed Conditions Many Actions per Task now Serialized Actions

16. TimeTrigger / CalendarTrigger (Periodic) At specified global (UTC) time Jittered (Delayed) start Triggers Schedule ~ OR ~ EventLog event trigger Registration based on EventLog query Generic Event ~ OR ~ IdleTrigger, BootTrigger, LogonTrigger RegistrationTrigger SessionStateChangeTrigger System Events

17. DisallowStartIfOnBatteries StopIfGoingOnBatteries Conditions Power State ~ AND ~ Run Only If Idle Stop at Idle End Restart at Idle Resume Idle State ~ AND ~ Launch if network is available Any or specific network profile Network Availability

18. Any command shell program Exe, Script, Batch DLLs hosted in user apps Task Actions Command Line / DLL Includes attachments Over SMTP E-Mail Body and title For interactive tasks Message Box

19. Task Scheduler Demo

20. %windir%\system32\tasks Task Management Interfaces XML File New COM / Scripting API Programmatic MMC Admin Tool SchTasks.exe Admin Tools Create Task Wizard End User

21. Windows Perf CountersBefore Windows Vista • Win32 Counter Providers • Requires performance counter DLLs • Uses registry and system files as central repository • Uses no unified IPC mechanism • Managed Counter Providers • Provides a simple managed API for a Win32technology • Uses a component oriented design • Integrated with Visual Studio Designers

22. Windows Perf CountersWhat’s new in Windows Vista • Improved Manageability • Simplified programming model • No more 32-bit/64-bit issue • Development tools • Improved Reliability • No more registry corruption • No need for performance counter DLLs • Improved Scalability • Retrieval of only requested data

23. WSUS 3.0 Improvements • Simpler Deployment • Improved Performance • Improved Reliability • Reporting Support • Targeting Enhancements • Improved Admin Experience

24. Simpler Deployment • WSUS 3.0 is an in-place upgrade of 2.0 • 3.0 has all the features of 2.0 and then some! • WSUS 2.0 Servers can sync from a 3.0 Server • Allows for a gradual top down roll out • New OOBE (Out of the box experience) wizard to help guide initial setup • Many improvements to replica mode to support branch office deployments • Move between Replica and Autonomous modes without a reinstall • Support for language subsetting on downstream replica servers • Replica’s can sync meta-data from a USS and content from MU • Support for disconnected replica synchronization

25. Improved Performance • Reporting performance • 50% performance gain • Server Synchronization • Full sync down from 1 ½ hours to 20 minutes • New UI makes it easier to see what’s relevant • New deployment options make it easier to build large scale deployments • Server now has native support for x64

26. Targeting Enhancements • WSUS 3.0 supports 2 new grouping concepts • Nested target groups • Overlapping group membership • A computer can be a member of > 1 group • Eg: Computer 1 is a member of Servers as well as Exchange Servers

27. Windows PowerShell • Next generation shell that is: • As interactive and composable as BASH/KSH • As programmatic as Perl/Ruby • As production oriented as AS400 CL/VMS DCL • Allows access to data stores as easy to access as filesystems

28. Shell PowerShell Highlights • Rich set of Namespaces (data dources) • Man-style help with rich schema and searching • Command-line-oriented following strong naming guidelines • E.g., Verb-Noun • Interactive experience (aliases, navigation, tab-completion, command line editing) • Pipelines • Object utilities

29. Shell Uniformity Get-Process | Where { $_.handles –gt 500 } | Sort handlecount | Format-Table Common PowerShell Parser Get-ProcessClass Sort Class FormatClass Where Class PowerShell Pipeline Processor

30. Shell Commands • Verb-Noun • Verb-Noun –FirstP Val –SecondP V2,V3 –ThirdP:V4 • You can alias • Set-Alias gps Get-Process • Parameters can be positional • gps –ProcessName LSASS • gps LSASS • Many parameters can be wildcarded • gps c* • Partial parameter names allowed • Gps –p lsass

31. Shell Trusting Operations • Commands with side-effects support: • Whatif • Gps |where {$_.handles –ge 500} | stop-process –WhatIf • Confirm • Stop-process S* -Confirm • Verbose • Stop-Process [a-x]*[q]*[r-t] -Verbose

32. Shell Finding Data • Data stores surfaced as “Drives” • Filesystem, Registry, Alias, Certs, Env, Functions, Variables, etc • > Get-PSdrive • > dir HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft • Drive is a namespace with numerous information axis • Item, ChildItem, Content, ItemProperty, ACL, etc. • New navigation/interaction model supported with aliases for existing commands

33. Shell Explicit Object Formatting • Built-in formatters for lists, tables, wide, and custom-views • > Get-Command Format-* • Formatters allow you to specify properties, propertysets and property expressions • > gps |format-table name,id,handlecount • > gps |format-table Configuration -auto • > gps |format-table name,@{Expression= {$_.mainmodule.filename}; Label="File"} • > gps |format-list name,*size64

34. Scripting Scripting • Supports existing scripting models • *NIX model of text processing including regular expressions • Visual Basic Script model of COM automation • Supports scripting .NET objects • Support loose, strong, and extensible typing models • Uniform syntax to access to a wide range of types • WMI, XML, COM, ADSI, ADO • Rich variable semantics (typed, read-only, constraints, descriptions) • Rich operators and control structures (C#-like with access to cmds & utilities) • Functions (positional, named, typed, constrained params)

35. PowerShell Scripting

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