Grow strong branches with TradeWeb and the Microsoft Branch Office Solution.

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Grow strong branches with TradeWeb and the
Microsoft Branch Office Solution.
www.TradeWeb.net
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The Branch Office Predicament
Expensive
Are We Going to Stop Buying Bandwidth? Is a
Remote IT Staff Worth the Cost? Who Can I Trust
for Branch Office Support?
The WAN Is Out, and No One Is Working. Did the
Updates and Patches Go Out? Distributed IT Staff
Centralization or Decentralization? No
Standardization Legacy Application Rehosting
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We Help You Grow Strong Branches
Best Practices and Optimization Take Control of
Bandwidth Coherent Branch Server
Management Simplified IT Management
Efficiencyand Reduced Cost
Policy Guidance Capacity Planning Branch Site
Autonomy Highly Secure Connections
Implementation Expertise Enhanced User
Experience Branch Site Backup Information Worker
Productivity .
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Operational Efficiency and Reduced CostYour
situation

• How much of your IT budget do you expend on
  branch office support?
• Where are your biggest bottlenecks?
• How do your capabilities align with your growth
  projections?

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Operational Efficiency and Reduced CostHow we
can help

• Analyze your technical and business objectives.
• Assess your WAN usage.
• Optimize your storage and communication
  capabilities.
• Design and deploy the Microsoft Branch Office
  Solution.

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Operational Efficiency and Reduced CostOur
solution expertise

• Efficient WAN usage
• Simplified branch server management
• Simplified IT management
• Robust file replication

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Operational Efficiency and Reduced CostMore
efficient WAN usage

• Remote Differential Compression (RDC)
• Only file changes are replicated from the branch
  back to the data center
• Advanced data compression
• Reductions in replication traffic can reach 85 to
  90 percent
• Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R)
• Scheduling and bandwidth throttling
• Automatic recovery
• Multiple replication topologies
• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration
  (ISA) Server
• Improves WAN efficiencies
• Large data transfers without degradation
• Packet prioritization

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Operational Efficiency and Reduced
CostSimplified branch server management

• Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0
• Extends centralized control into branch offices
• Helps reduces IT personnel and costs
• Automated Deployment Services (ADS)
• Scalable deployment
• Remote deployment
• Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
• Centralized monitoring
• Automated problem resolution
• Reporting and trend analysis
• Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS)
• Centralized patch and update distribution

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Operational Efficiency and Reduced CostIT
management simplified

• Microsoft Virtual Server (VS) 2005
• Multiple operating systems
• Legacy application hosting
• Four virtual instances of Microsoft Windows
  Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager
  (DPM) 2006
• Self-healing synchronization
• Disk-based backup
• End user recovery

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Operational Efficiency and Reduced Costs
Activity
Time Savings
File Repair and Restoration
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Storage Management
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Disaster Planning and Recovery
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Capacity Planning
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Server Setup and Configuration
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User Support / Help Desk
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File Replication
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From Addressing Operational Efficiencies in
Branch Offices, IDC, May 2006.
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Operational Efficiency and Reduced Costs How we
have helped others

• Reduced wide area network (WAN) traffic by up to
  50 percent
• Improved file replication speeds by up to 400
  times

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Security and Reliability Your situation

• What are your most pressing security concerns?
• Who determines branch security policy?
• How are you addressing business continuity?
• How often do your branches face outages?

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Security and Reliability How we can help

• Align security priorities.
• Implement best practices.
• Assess performance requirements.
• Analyze capacity requirements.

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Security and Reliability Our solution expertise

• Branch site user and data autonomy
• More secure connections
• Greater security through patching

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Security and ReliabilityBranch site user and
data autonomy

• Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services
• Loss of connectivity between branch and central
  locations no longer impacts the ability of branch
  users to authenticate and access services
• Improved system performance and robustness over
  unreliable WANs
• Active Directory Domain Services Partitions
• Prioritize replication
• Control scope
• Control placement
• Group Policy and Active Directory Domain Services

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Security and ReliabilityMore secure connections
through ISA Server

• Filtering
• Packet filtering
• Stateful filtering
• Application layer filtering
• IPSec and VPN
• Remote VPN
• Enhanced firewall protection

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Security and Reliability Greater security
through patching

• Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003
• Accurate monitoring
• Patch scheduling
• Patch prioritizing

SMS makes sending a package automatic. We choose
the computer from the inventory, right-click to
distribute the software, go through the wizard,
and within two or three minutes, SMS has
distributed the software, and the user can start
working. The IT staff doesnt have to go on-site,
and theres no interruption of service to the end
user. Jed Dunn, Communications Engineer at
Aquila
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Security and Reliability How we have
helped others

• Provided a holistic approach that integrates
  policy with procedures
• Developed business continuity planning and
  support
• Streamlined system management operations

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Accelerate Information Your situation

• Are your branch workers less productive due to
  communication problems?
• What are your performance priorities?
• What challenges do you face in coordinating
  information flow?
• Do your people have timely information to make
  better decisions and support your customers?

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Accelerate InformationHow we can help

• Deliver information to the right people at the
  right time, regardless of their location.
• Increase communication efficiency and file
  management.
• Enhance the end users experience and efficiency
  at your branch offices.

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Accelerate Information Our solution expertise

• Uninterrupted branch office service
• High-performance WAN connectivity

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Accelerate InformationUninterrupted branch
office service

• Windows Server 2003 R2
• Single server
• Service
• Virtualized
• Dedicated
• Local replicas of remote data
• Failover with failback capabilities
• Once the local branch server is up, users are
  automatically connected back to their branch
  server.
• Microsoft Virtual Server resumes applications in
  downtime.

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Accelerate InformationHigh-performance WAN
connectivity

• Bandwidth throttling and replication scheduling
• Each user saved 7.6 hours a year on replication.
• Each user saved 2.3 hours a year on restoring
  files.
• Each user saved 5.6 hours a year on
  installation.
• Configurable Internet access rules and spam
  filtering
• One companys example
• 30 messages a day, 5 seconds to read and delete
• 7,500 employees working at an average of 14.42
  per hour
• Approximately 90,000 per month or 1,080,000 per
  year

From Addressing Operational Efficiencies in
Branch Offices, IDC, May 2006.
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Accelerate InformationHow we have helped others

• More effective utilization of server capacity and
  network bandwidth
• Greater efficiency in systems administration and
  management
• Faster and more reliable data recovery in the
  event of a disaster
• Higher degree of standardization and automation

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Summary
Best Practices and Optimization Take Control of
Bandwidth Coherent Branch Server
Management Simplified IT Management
Efficiencyand Reduced Cost
Policy Guidance Capacity Planning Branch Site
Autonomy Highly Secure Connections
Implementation Expertise Enhanced User
Experience Branch Site Backup Information Worker
Productivity .
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Appendix
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For More Product Information

• Branch Office
• www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/R2/branchoffic
  e/default.mspx
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default
  .mspx
• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration
  Server
• http//www.microsoft.com/isaserver/default.mspx
• Microsoft Operations Manager
• http//www.microsoft.com/mom/default.mspx
• Microsoft Systems Management Server
• http//www.microsoft.com/smserver/default.mspx
• Microsoft Virtual Server
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtu
  alserver/default.mspx
• Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dpm/d
  efault.mspx

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Technology Overview
Efficiencyand Reduced Cost
Remote Differential Compression (RDC) Distributed
File System (DFS) ISA Server Microsoft Operations
Manager
ISA Server Active Directory Domain Services
Group Policy DPS
Branch Office Server Design Prescriptive
Guidance Proactive Management Measures
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In-Depth Remote Differential Compression
Original file
Updated file
Original file
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In-Depth Distributed File System
Physical Servers
\\Software1\Apps San Francisco
DFS Namespace
\\Software\Public\Applications
\\Software2\Apps San Francisco
DFS Replication
\\Software3\Apps Miami
User in Dallas
User in San Francisco
\\Software4\Apps Dallas
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In-Depth HTTP Caching
Branch Office Clients
ISA Server
Internet