Entries tagged with pm - TechNet Edge

EBS Security demo and PM interview

David Tesar — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Lingan Satkunanathan, program manager on the Essential Business Server team, tells us about a number of different things around security in EBS. More specifically, some of the things he covers are:

How EBS locks down security out of the box
What security settings you might need to change after setup
IPSec, NAP, and group policy security settings

At 10:00, we get a demo of the EBS security management tab/console which includes:

Firewall tasks and settings
Forefront Client Security / Client AV story
Email Anti-Malware / Anti-Spam

At the end we finish with a peek into the future of EBS with things like Forefront Stirling integration.

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Hyper-V Part 2 - VM Snapshots - Interviews with PMs

David Tesar — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:28:00 GMT

John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of Hyper-V. In part 2 we cover:

How virtual machine snapshots work under the covers
How to properly export a specific VHD/snapshot in your chain
Limitations with multiple branches of snapshots

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Auditing and FGPP PM Interview

David Tesar — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:59:00 GMT

Hear about Windows Server 2008 AD auditing and FGPP directly from the source! In this interview with Siddharth Bhai the program manager (PM) for this AD functionality, he gives us a bunch of great information.

For instance he:
- Explains the recommended practices on how to create password settings objects (PSOs) and delegate the permissions for these.

- Gives numerous reasons as to why the team made the decision for PSOs being assigned via groups and not OUs

- Tells us why the team didn't produce a more rich GUI tool to create PSOs (instead of the manual creation using ADSIedit)

- Describes why they made the decisions to include the new auditing features in WS08

- Simplifies the areas how to apply auditing (Global auditing, Schema, specific ACE per object)

- Shares thoughts on what might be coming up next with auditing and FGPP

Some resources referenced in this interview:
Windows Server 2008 Auditing AD DS Changes Step-by-Step Guide
Step-by-Step Guide for Fine-Grained Password and Account Lockout Policy Configuration

Windows Server 2008 - Server Core PM Andrew Mason

David Tesar — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:59:00 GMT

I was able to meet with Andrew during the one week he was in Redmond for the month to talk about the new Server Core functionality which is available with Server 2008. In this interview, we cover: why server core exists, explanation of what MinWin is, the differences between MinWin and server core, why MinWin was created, see what ideas Andrew has on the future of server core, see what practical application you could currently have with a USB stick, his personal viewpoints on whether or not powershell and the .Net framework should be on server core, and get some management and other tips: see his server core blog, check out the step-by-step guide for server core, use unattend files, and enable the mmc to work through the firewall.

For "Over the Edge", in the office Andrew works he'll come out of "night vision" and we'll see his true colors. Also, be prepared for a server on rollerblades, some Windows branded alcohol (yes, whiskey) which looks like a JD bottle, a Server 2008 shot glass, some old school books & games he used to read/play, and a tiny little bit about what Andrew does outside of working on server core.

Other than the .Net framework and Powershell being able to run on server core (which they are working on), what would you like to see in the next versions of server core?