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Business Continuity Management equips Microsoft IT with operational intelligence to enhance their decision making processes, manage risk and gain a competitive advantage in preparation for adverse situations. Microsoft IT implements BCM frameworks within the company to ensure maximum employee safety, continued critical business processes/system availability with the goal of minimizing adverse impacts to Microsoft employees, customers, partners and stakeholders.

Learn how both end users and Microsoft IT realized new efficiency gains through the combination of Windows 7, User State Migration Tool (USMT), SCCM and Windows Server 2008 R2 capabilities like BranchCache, Direct Access, Windows Deployment Services and Hyper-V. Efficiency gains included faster install experience, data migration, simplified remote access, improved bandwidth utilization and security compliance.

Managing a Web infrastructure is not an easy task. Learn how Microsoft IT maintains one of the highest availability in the industry while supporting 300 million/month unique users, 200 million daily page views, and an average of 555,000 connections to a total of 112 Web servers.

In today’s economic climate, doing more with less is a requirement. The Microsoft Managed Services Division uses Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to deliver improved manageability while also reducing hardware, development, and staffing costs.

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Using peer-to-peer networking across LANs, BranchCache

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BranchCache uses peer-to-peer networking across LANs to reduce file sharing and HTTP traffic across the WAN. When you enable BranchCache, client computers running Windows 7 keep a local cached copy of data that they copy from a file or Web server running Windows Server 2008 R2. If another computer running Windows 7 on the same LAN or branch office needs the same data, that client can copy the data directly from the local cache, reducing WAN bandwidth usage and potentially improving performance. BranchCache clients can be managed using either Group Policy or the Netsh command-line tool. Here’s an overview of how you can configure BranchCache using Group Policy . Follow our daily tips: • facebook.com/TechNetTips • twitter.com/TechNetTips • blogs.technet.com/tnmag

Get an overview of the AGPM roles you can assign to administrators and the permissions each role provides. Follow our daily tips: • facebook.com/TechNetTips • twitter.com/TechNetTips • blogs.technet.com/tnmag

Find out how you can use AGPM to create GPO templates that make it easier to create new GPOs in your organization. Follow our daily tips: • facebook.com/TechNetTips • twitter.com/TechNetTips • blogs.technet.com/tnmag