Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Enterprise

(Episode 7) Windows 8: System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager – Deployment & Management

ChrisCaldwell, Kevin Remde — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:00:23 GMT

In today’s episode, Technical Evangelist Kevin Remde welcomes Sr. Technical Product Manager Martin Booth to the show as they discuss enterprise management and how System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager can help deploy, work with, manage and secure Windows 8. In Part 1 of their discussion Kevin and Martin chat about the latest improvements made to System Center 2012 and how it relates to Windows 8.

[2:11] What is System Center Configuration Manager and what can it do for business IT?
[3:00 ] Why is SP1 important for System Center 2012 and ultimately Windows 8?
[3:55] Can Configuration Manager handle Windows 8 application deployment?
[5:28] How does Endpoint Protection work for Windows 8?
[7:40] What are my options for deploying and managing Windows 8 with Configuration Manager 2007?
[9:13] What are some of the new features in Windows 8, that System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager can help with?

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Microsoft DevRadio: Managing Your Windows 8 Enterprise Apps with Windows Intune

Jerry Nixon, DevRadio, ChrisCaldwell — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:19:01 GMT

Abstract:
Jerry Nixon welcomes Sr. Program Manager Mark Williams from the Windows Intune team as they discuss how developers can deploy and manage their Windows 8 Enterprise Apps with Windows Intune.

Next Steps:
Step #1 – Download the Tools for Windows 8 App Development
Step #2 – Download Visual Studio Express for Windows 8
Step #3 – Start building your own Apps for Windows 8

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Deploying Enterprise Apps

Roxanne Beaver — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:45:19 GMT

In this video we'll cover how to take your Line of Business (LOB) apps and deploy them with your Enterprise. We'll talk through your options that you have for getting your app directly to your users. And the implication of those options to both you as the developer, the IT administrator in the Enterprise, and your users.

For more information on deploying your apps, please see the following reference links:

Creating Enterprise Line of Business Apps for Windows 8

AlignIT Manager Tech Talk: Your Enterprise On the Go

Ruth Morton, Jonathan Rozenblit — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:07:49 GMT

Windows Phone goes beyond email and calendaring to deliver productivity to the enterprise. Mobile access to corporate applications like Office and SharePoint come out of the box, but line of business can be extended to the phone using skills and tools your infrastructure and developer teams already have. Ruth Morton, Jonathan Rozenblit, and guest Paul Laberge, Developer Advisor at Microsoft Canada and Windows Phone expert discuss how you can leverage Windows Phone to extend your applications and enable a mobile workforce.

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See it for yourself. Download the SDKs, samples, documentation, videos, and more.
To learn more about Windows Phone, deeper content, etc, check out TechDays Online.
Learn more about Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and download the Release Candidate for evaluation.

Featured Guest: Paul Laberge

Paul is a Developer Advisor with Microsoft Canada, based in Mississauga, Ontario. Paul brings over 12 years of technical experience working with some of the largest North American Fortune 500 companies to the role and has been with Microsoft for almost 5 years. His experience includes being a lead developer, development manager, lead application architect and IT management for a wide variety of technical solutions. Currently, Paul leads Microsoft's developer engagement around Windows Phone 7 and in that role, he can be found working with mobile developers of all walks of life, speaking at events, providing information on various social networks and, of course, driving the great Canadian developer ecosystem to building amazing Windows Phone apps. Paul is also passionate about Microsoft's cloud computing strategy and HTML5 as a way to drive great cross-platform experiences.

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About AlignIT Manager Tech Talk

The AlignIT Manager Talk is a monthly live streamed video series hosted by Ruth Morton (LinkedIn) and Jonathan Rozenblit (LinkedIn). Each Tech Talk episode airs on the 2nd Thursday of the month from 12:00pm to 12:30pm EST. The show focuses on a range of topics for both infrastructure and development managers and is interactive, taking questions via a live chat and providing answers on air

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Talking Architects with David Sprott

Matt Deacon — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:55:00 GMT

10 years of .NET and 10 years of .NET Web Services! Well, perhaps this was not mark the starting point of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) but the last decade has seen an unpresidented period where SOA has reigned supreme at top of the hype cycle! David Sprott, CEO, CBDI-Forum has dedicated his time to providing SOA guidance to Industry.

So what does he make of all this cloud stuff? Does 'cloud now trump SOA? I got the chance to ask david this and other stuff backstage at Architect Insight.

For more info on Architect Insight 2010, including presentation slides and videos go to www.microsoft.com/uk/aic2010

Talking Architects with Iain Mortimer

Matt Deacon — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:56:00 GMT

What's happening to the enterprise? What's the next generation enterprise going to look like?

Ans: An Orange!

I got to talk backstage at Architect Insight the other month with Iain Mortimer, Chief Architect, Bank of America Merrill Lynch about next generation enterprises and oranges!

For more on info on the Architect Insight Conference click here www.microsoft.com/uk/aic2010.

Jim Somers (Antenna Software) chats with Gunther Lenz (Microsoft)

Gunther Lenz — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:20:00 GMT

Jim Somers, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Antenna Software, chats with Gunther Lenz, ISV Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, about Antenna Software's mobile solutions based on the Microsoft Platform, S+S, the business value, and the cloud.

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Talking Architects - Roger Sessions

Matt Deacon — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:04:00 GMT

According to Roger Sessions in his recent white paper "The IT Complexity Crisis", the worldwide annual cost of IT failure is over $6 trillion a year and what’s worse is it is on the increase. The culprit, Roger believes, is complexity, which itself is directly related to function; increase function increases complexity. If we can manage complexity then we can increase IT success – “All we need is a process for making systems simple”.

Talking Architects with Len Bass

Matt Deacon — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:54:00 GMT

Quality Attributes (Non-functional requirements) as first class citizens of a project? Too far fetched? Len Bass, co-author of Software Architecture in Practice and longstanding member of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), thinks he has an answer.

But how does this fit in an agile world?

Project Starlight: Multicast Plug-in for Silverlight

Ben Waggoner — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:07:00 GMT

It’s Streaming Media East this week. Alas, I’m racing towards a book deadline, and so am skipping the show for the first time in years. I miss it; it’s long been one my favorite shows of the year, and an extremely productive place to meet with customers, partners, as well as a family reunion for us grizzled veterans of digital media.

But a bunch of the rest of the Silverlight media team are there. They’re demoing our big news, but I can at least write about it.

And that news is the Qumu Multicast Plug-in for Silverlight and Project Starlight, which bring Windows Media multicast support to Silverlight.

Silverlight Team Blog announcement
Qumu announcement

What is it?

The Multicast Plug-in for Silverlight is a set of native code browser plugins (ActiveX or NSAPI) developed by Qumu that enable Silverlight to access multicast streams from Windows Media Services. Versions are available for all supported Silverlight browsers on both Mac and Windows.

Why?

Windows Media has long been the leading media platform in the enterprise, and a big part of that has been our support for multicast. Multicast is basically required to do big live corporate events on a LAN/WAN given their network topology. Proxy caching from Smooth Streaming is great for scaling up consumer content delivery, but Enterprises generally don’t have proxy caches inside the WAN. So, to date Silverlight wasn’t a good fit for corporate events.

But Silverlight itself has been very compelling for the enterprise, and they’ve been itching to take the rich presentations they’ve been able to do for on demand and use them for live. And Silverlight can do some great stuff there:

Multi-camera views for multi-location events
Synchronized slides and other multimedia assets
Integrated chat, voting, and other feedback to break out of one-way only communication
More robust cross-platform embedding for the Mac users in graphics or video departments

Both Microsoft and Qumu have had many, many requests from our corporate, education, and government customers for multicast in Silverlight, and thus the best of both worlds. Qumu developed Starlight with support from Microsoft.

What modifications are needed to support this?

There’s no changes on the server or networking side required – that was a core goal of the project.

The Plug-in is accessed via MediaStreamSource, and so will need some code added there. It’s the same API for all platform/browsers, and the necessary source code is provided as part of Starlight.

The biggest task is to get the components installed on all the machines. It is supported by the standard enterprise deployment tools like WSUS.

How does Starlight get deployed?

It’s a native code browser component, and so will require administrator access to install. This is the biggest work item in most cases. Since multicast is of most interest inside enterprises and other large LAN/WAN configurations, the majority of the machines that would run it are managed desktops. Thus the IT departments for the organization will need add it to their standard build.

What does Starlight cost? What’s the license?

The Starlight binaries are free downloads. Source code is also available under a license compatible with MS-PL, which allows very broad modification and then redistribution of those modifications.

I’m looking forward to see what other partners can do by extending Starlight to enable new content types and scenarios.

When and where can I get it?

The binaries and source code should be available for download at Codeplex in the next few days.

Millions of Servers Coming to the Cloud

Sarah Perez — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:13:00 GMT

At the TechEd Conference, Bill Gates gave his last speech as a Microsoft full-time employee and one of the topics he discussed was Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing. (Full transcript is here.) In the speech, Gates spoke of Microsoft’s plan to have “many millions” of servers in the cloud, running all the services that traditional I.T. shops run today like Exchange, SQL Server, BizTalk, and more. These Microsoft cloud services will come in three different options – free, ad-supported, and commercial (fee-based), he said. One has to wonder how this will position the I.T. guys in the future – it looks like their role will be changing. Whereas before, I.T. needed to know how to set up, install, manage, and support the servers in their organization, it seems like the new I.T. guy will be more a facilitator, helping a company pick out the best cloud services for the business and handling the administrative aspects of setting them up. This work will be less “geeky” than before, but still just as critical to a business’s success. It should be really interesting to watch as these things change the way the business world runs.

(img courtesy of News from Microsoft Ireland)

Identity Management Beta Released

Sarah Perez — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:39:00 GMT

This one’s for the IT Pros – a new beta of Identity Lifecycle Manager has been released – the ILM beta helps your users better manage their multiple identities across network resources via a solution that provides identity synchronization, certificate & password management, and user provisioning all from one single solution that works on Microsoft Windows as well as other systems. This solution lets users manage their own identities so the bottom line is that this means less calls to the helpdesk for forgotten passwords! The self-service solution lets users manage their own passwords. Sigh. I wish we had been using this when I was in I.T…of course, if we had been using this, I might still be in I.T.

Enterprise Deployment resources for Silverlight

Ben Waggoner — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:58:00 GMT

Most of the examples here for Silverlight media have been focused on consumer content, and that's been the bulk of our broader marketing story so far. But we are Microsoft, and so enterprise is a huge portion of our bread and butter, and we want to see Silverlight be as successful inside enterprises as it's becoming in the consumer world.

Silverlight has a lot to offer the enterprise. Among the usual Silverlight scenarios, we've seen growing interest in using Silverlight for doing corporate training, since it offers such rich mechanisms to mix video and audio with quizzes and other content.

I've had a bunch of questions about how we're going to support Silverlight deployment in the enterprise. My colleague Tim Sneath has had a couple of great blog posts I want to crib from. In particular, don't miss the link to the Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide.

Deploying Silverlight in the Enterprise
As more and more Silverlight sites become available, enterprise administrators are starting to ask for guidance on how Silverlight should be deployed in a corporate environment. Obviously, at one level it's as straightforward as executing the installer, but there are typically a whole ton of questions that need answering:
What files and registry keys does Silverlight install?
Will Silverlight break any existing applications?
What are the command-line switches to configure installation?
How do I deploy Silverlight through SMS or System Center?
How is Silverlight serviced and updated?
How do you configure Silverlight settings via Group Policy?
Fortunately, one of my colleagues, David Tesar has kindly come to the rescue and written a very comprehensive white paper that answers all these questions plus many more. The Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide is available for download now. We gave the white paper a trial run ourselves when Microsoft IT used SMS to deploy Silverlight internally. Download it and send it to your systems administrator today - it's worth their time to read.
Making Silverlight Easier for Systems Administrators to Install

...we've made a few changes to the installation process to enable systems administrators to deploy Silverlight into enterprise environments more easily.
...Silverlight is available as an optional update for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 via the Windows Server Update Services tool (and, inevitably, Microsoft Update, since WSUS relies on Microsoft Update as its source for updates).
Many customers have requested help with deploying Silverlight internally, and this change will hopefully be welcomed by enterprises who want to distribute Silverlight within their organizations using their established management tools. By adding it as an optional update, enterprises can control the roll-out of Silverlight within their organizations and schedule its installation as a background task so that the perceptible impact is minimal, and ensure that end-users can view Silverlight content without requiring administrative rights to install the plug-in.
I'm really glad this is now available: the need for administrator rights to install a web plug-in is not unique to Silverlight, of course, but it's been raised a number of times as a potential blocker to enterprise adoption. Having this available will solve that problem and make it far easier for enterprise administrators to control deployment of Silverlight to their users.

LG - Nortel

Tina — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:07:00 GMT

LG-Nortel is a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel. Established in 2005, LG-Nortel provides leading edge telecommunications equipment and network solutions, spanning wired and wireless technologies, to service provider and enterprise customers in Korea and around the world. LG-Nortel is also actively developing next generation solutions for global markets, with over 1,000 skilled R&D engineers currently focused on wireless broadband technology evolution and the development of powerful new product lines.

Polycom - It's business week here at Channel 10

Tina — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:48:00 GMT

Polycom, Inc. is the worldwide leader in unified collaborative communications (UCC) that maximize the efficiency and productivity of people and organizations by integrating the broadest array of high definition video, wired and wireless voice, and content solutions to deliver the ultimate collaborative experience. Polycom’s high quality, standards-based conferencing and collaboration solutions are easy to deploy and manage, as well as intuitive to use. Supported by an open architecture, they integrate seamlessly with leading telephony, workplace wireless telephony, and presence-based networks. With its market driving technologies, best-in-class products, alliance partnerships, and world-class service, Polycom is the smart choice for organizations seeking proven solutions and a competitive advantage from on-demand communications and collaboration.