Windows 7 Survival: Enterprise features

With the introduction of Windows 7 (in many cases including Windows Server 2008 R2), Microsoft foresaw a future without VPN, external transfer encoding, and more scalable Desktop search.

February 18, 2009, cio--user experience attention, has been the largest distribution to the Win7beta version. It has a new toolbar and its jump menu, mouse hover function, easy navigation and intelligent learning features that can control user accounts. But underneath the good looks, The lack of Win7 functionality is not well known for corporate attraction.

Recently, Microsoft has embraced some criticism of Win7 's disregard for corporate demand. The top blogger and editor at Microsoft's Super site, Paul Thurrott, recently revealed in an interview that Microsoft is now treating businesses in the future, and arbitrarily locks enterprise user needs into win Server 2008 R2, and asked the company to spend a lot of money on it.

To this end, Microsoft's former Windows Product Management Director, Gavriella Schuster, admits that Win 7 will not be deployed overnight to Winserve R2008 R2 the above features. Some of these features will be a long-term team strategy. " Schuster said.

Still, Microsoft is spreading the message that Win7 can help companies. In a recent interview, Schuster specifically sued, which Microsoft considered to be a key feature.

Direct attached

Direct-connect functionality requires the use of Win7 and win Serve R2008 R2. You can connect your mobile workstation to your corporate network without the need for VPN, giving business users more flexibility and ease of burden on it.

Schuster said, through direct connection, users need only one Internet access point to access anything in the corporate network; they don't need to pause for what they're doing anymore, and access a dedicated VPN. This will reduce the use of enterprise bandwidth, because remote users will most use their own bandwidth, She said so.

For IT managers, direct-connect technology will have more benefits, "the biggest challenge for it is to control the remote computer, know how long they are offline, when they will come back, and when they will pack," she said. Through direct-connect technology, as long as a machine is connected to the Internet, it can be managed.

In the future, security considerations, Schuster said, Win Server 2008 R2, will use the most secure protocol, IPv6 to encrypt data and spread on the Internet. Whether you have a VPN or a firewall, We've integrated this into the direct-connect technology, she says. There is no separate layer to come to that safe channel.

BranchCache

Branch caching also requires the use of Win7 and win Serve R2008 R2, is a design to accelerate the function of the network in a remote office far away from the company's headquarters. In effect, the branch cache will be exposed to remote bulk files stored in the corporate network to accelerate, Schuster. Say. A file service has been downloaded from the corporate network and cached in the Winserve R2008 R2 system in the local branch office. When the user of another branch office needs this file, it can immediately download from the local cache instead of connecting to the corporate headquarters via a limited bandwidth.