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IT series – What’s New in Windows Server 2008 R2IT series – What’s New in Windows Server 2008 R2

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IT series – What’s New in Windows Server 2008 R2

Donald E. HesterCISSP, CISA, CAP, MCT, MCITP, MCTS, MCSE Security, Security+, CTT+

Director, Maze & Associates

University of San Francisco / San Diego City College / Los Positas College

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History What’s new in Hyper-V What’s new in NTFS What’s new with Service Accounts What’s new in User Account Control What’s Direct Access What’s new with BitLocker What’s AppLocker What’s new in Biometric support What’s new in SmartCard support What’s new in Backup What’s BranchCache What’s new in DNS What's New in Failover Clusters What's New in Microsoft iSCSI Initiator What's New in Remote Desktop Services What’s new in performance and reliability monitoring What’s new in Event Auditing What’s new in Server Core What’s New in Active Directory

Windows HistoryWindows History

Server OS Corresponding Client OS Kernel Version Build

Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 NT 6.1 7600

Server 2008 Windows Vista NT 6.0 6000

Server 2003 R2 NT 5.2 3790

Server 2003 Windows XP Pro (x64) NT 5.2 3790

Windows XP Pro (x86) NT 5.1 2600

Server 2000 Windows 2000 Pro NT 5.0 2195

Windows NT 4 Server Windows NT 4 Workstation NT 4.0 1381

Windows NT 3.51 Windows NT 3.51 NT 3.51 1057

Windows NT 3.1 Windows NT 3.1 NT 3.1 528

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Note the following versions of Windows were DOS based:Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

What’s new in Hyper-V?What’s new in Hyper-V?

The following changes to existing features:• Dynamic virtual machine

storage

• Enhanced processor support

• Enhanced networking support

New• Live Migration

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Quick Migration vs. Live MigrationQuick Migration vs. Live Migration

Quick Migration(Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V)

• Save state• Create VM on the target• Write VM memory to shared

storage• Move virtual machine

• Move storage connectivity from source host to target host via Ethernet

• Restore state & Run• Take VM memory from shared

storage and restore on Target• Run

Live Migration(Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V)

• VM State/Memory Transfer• Create VM on the target• Move memory pages from the

source to the target via Ethernet

• Final state transfer and virtual machine restore

• Pause virtual machine• Move storage connectivity

from source host to target host via Ethernet

• Un-pause & Run

Host 2Host 1 Host 1 Host 2

What’s new in NTFS?What’s new in NTFS?

• VHD Boot in Windows• Native VHD support• Chkdsk performance

improvements• Robocopy performance

enhancement• Local file copy

improvements• Improvements in

Volume Shrink• Improved performance

for solid state disks (SSD)

• Defrag for metadata

What’s new with Service Accounts?What’s new with Service Accounts?

Service accounts have always had issues• Security hole

• Password never changes

• Nobody knows the passwords

• Not sure what services where are using the service accounts

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Virtual AccountsVirtual Accounts

Want better isolation than existing service accounts• Don’t want to manage passwords

Virtual accounts are like service accounts:• Process runs with virtual SID as principal

Can ACL objects to that SID

• System-managed password

• Show up as computer account when accessing network

Services can specify a virtual account• Account name must be “NT SERVICE\<service>”

Service control manager verifies that service name matches account name

• Service control manager creates a user profile for the account

Also used by IIS app pool and SQL Server

Managed Service AccountsManaged Service Accounts

Services sometimes require network identity e.g. SQL, IIS

Before, domain account was only option• Required administrator to manage password and Service

Principal Names (SPN)

• Management could cause outage while clients updated to use new password

Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory introduces Managed Service Accounts (MSA)• New AD class

• Password and SPN automatically managed by AD like computer accounts

• Configured via PowerShell scripts

• Limitation: can be assigned to one system only

What’s New with User Account Control?What’s New with User Account Control?

29% fewer user account control (UAC) prompts than Windows Vista has, and

fewer prompts in general "We've put users in control and allowed

them the ability to tune the level of prompting" using a slider bar• Paul Cooke, director of Windows Client

Enterprise Security

UAC Slide BarUAC Slide Bar

UAC in GPOUAC in GPO

What’s DirectAccess?What’s DirectAccess?

DirectAccess offers remote workers the same level of seamless and secure connectivity as they have in the office.

The system automatically creates a secure tunnel to the corporate network and workers don't have to manually connect

DirectAccess also allows IT administrators to patch systems whenever a remote worker is on the network

DirectAccessDirectAccess

DirectAccess also uses IPsec to authenticate the computer and user, encrypt the data crossing over the Internet

Can even be used to require employees to authenticate with a smart card

DirectAccess RequirementsDirectAccess Requirements

Active Directory PKI Certificates IPv6 Server 2008 R2 Windows 7

Or you can useForeFront USG

What’s new with BitLocker?What’s new with BitLocker?

Windows Vista users have to repartition their hard drive to create the required hidden boot partition • Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 creates that

partition automatically when BitLocker is enabled

Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 extends the Data Recovery Agent (DRA) to include all encrypted volumes • As a result, only one encryption key is needed

on any BitLocker-encrypted Windows machine

What replaces software restriction polices?What replaces software restriction polices?

AppLocker technology that allows administrators to control the software that runs on Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 machines

This ensures that only authorized scripts, installers, and dynamic load libraries are accessed

It can also be used to keep unlicensed software off machines

What’s new in Biometrics?What’s new in Biometrics?

A Biometric Devices Control Panel Device Manager support for managing drivers for biometric

devices Credential provider support (UAC elevation) Group Policy settings to enable, disable, or limit the use of

biometric data for a local computer or domain Biometric device driver software available from Windows Update

What’s new in Smart Card support?What’s new in Smart Card support?

Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 extends the smart card support offered in Windows Vista by automatically installing the drivers required to support smart cards and smart card readers, without administrative permission

Smart Card device driver software available from Windows Update

What's new in Backup?What's new in Backup?

Ability to back up/exclude individual files and to include/exclude file types and paths from a volume

Improved performance and use of incremental backups

Expanded options for backup storage Improved options and performance for system

state backups and recoveries Expanded command-line support Expanded Windows PowerShell support

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What’s BranchCache?What’s BranchCache?

Microsoft recommends that users run Windows 7 clients in conjunction with Windows 2008 R2 servers in order to get the benefit of BranchCache, a caching application that makes networked applications faster and more responsive

What’s BranchCache?What’s BranchCache?

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What's New in Failover Clusters?What's New in Failover Clusters?

Improvements to the validation process for a new or existing cluster

Improvements in functionality for clustered virtual machines (which run with the Hyper-V feature)

The addition of a Windows PowerShell interface

Additional options for migrating settings from one cluster to another (Live Migration & Quick Migration)

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What's New in Microsoft iSCSI Initiator?What's New in Microsoft iSCSI Initiator?

User interface enhancement and redesign

iSCSI digest offload support• better CPU utilization

iSCSI boot support for up to 32 paths at boot time• Redundancy needed to protect against

network component failures or outages

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What’s New with DNS?What’s New with DNS?

DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) DNS Devolution DNS Cache Locking DNS Socket Pool

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DNSSECDNSSEC

Supports Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), newly established protocols that give organizations greater confidence that DNS records are not being spoofed

DNS DevolutionDNS Devolution

Helps clients in child domains resolve host names when they are not sure what domain the host is in

This can be set to specific levels of resolution (Domain Child/Parent Levels)

For example:

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An application attempting to query the host name emailsrv7 will attempt to resolve emailsrv7.central.contoso.com and emailsrv7.contoso.com

DNS Cache LockingDNS Cache Locking

Cache locking is a new security feature available with Windows Server® 2008 R2 that allows you to control whether or not information in the DNS cache can be overwritten.

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DNS Socket PoolDNS Socket Pool

The socket pool enables a DNS server to use source port randomization when issuing DNS queries

This provides enhanced security against cache poisoning attacks

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What's New in Remote Desktop Services?What's New in Remote Desktop Services?

Server 2008 R2 with SP 1 Microsoft RemoteFX has been added to

Remote Desktop Services• 3D adapter

• USB redirection Intelligent capture and compression that

adapts for the best user experience All Remote Desktop Services role

services have been renamed

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What’s new in performance and reliability monitoring?What’s new in performance and reliability monitoring?

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What’s new in Event Auditing?What’s new in Event Auditing?

Enhancements to event auditing Regulatory and business requirements

are easier to fulfill through management of audit configurations, monitoring of changes made by specific people or groups, and more-granular reporting.

For example, Windows 7 reports why someone was granted or denied access to specific information.

What’s new in Server Core?What’s new in Server Core?

Additional Server Roles Available• The Active Directory® Certificate Services

(AD CS) role

• The File Server Resource Manager component of the File Services role

• A subset of ASP.NET in the Web Server role

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What’s new in Server Core?What’s new in Server Core?

Additional Features• Support for .NET framework

• Windows PowerShell

• Windows-on-Windows 64-bit (WoW64) Removed

• The removable storage feature New support

• Remote configuration with Server Manager

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What’s New in Active Directory?What’s New in Active Directory?

Active Directory Recycle Bin Changes to Group Policies Windows PowerShell cmdlets AD Administrative Center AD Best Practices Analyzer Offline domain join Managed Service Accounts Management Pack

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What’s new in Group Policies?What’s new in Group Policies?

Extended Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 polices

Windows PowerShell Cmdlets for Group Policy

Additional Group Policy Preferences Improved Starter Group Policy Objects Improved UI Admin Template

Functionality

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AD Recycle BinAD Recycle Bin

Information technology (IT) professionals can use Active Directory Recycle Bin to undo an accidental deletion of an Active Directory object.

Accidental object deletion causes business downtime. This is the number one cause of Active Directory

recovery scenarios. Active Directory Recycle Bin works for both AD DS

and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) objects.

This feature is enabled in AD DS at the Windows Server 2008 R2 forest functional level.

AD Recycle BinAD Recycle Bin

180 Days 180 Days

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Donald E. HesterCISSP, CISA, CAP, MCT, MCITP, MCTS, MCSE Security, Security+, CTT+

Director, Maze & Associates

University of San Francisco / San Diego City College / Los Positas College

www.LearnSecurity.org

http://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldehester

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=245570977486

Email:

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