Once a user connects to your environment the possibility of unauthorized access or virus infection becomes a reality. Even your own employees can bring infected machines into your corporate network and cause unintentional damage to your IT infrastructure. To counter this many IT organizations deploy security and patch tools which are costly and still don’t always manage to stop contain virus outbreaks or security breaches. With the new Network access protection capabilities in Windows 2008/R2 you can now provide quarantine services that ensures machines don’t join your corporate network until you’re sure they are updated to the standards you expect. Customers or partners can now also use your corporate network in a restricted way either to access externally focused applications or to access their own environment over the internet whilst using your offices and facilities.

With the rising cost of Energy and focus of the world’s governments to reduce carbon emissions many organizations are looking to be a good global citizen by adopting new, more power efficient technologies. This session will cover a number of different technologies and strategies such as server virtualization, server consolidation and systems management to demonstrate how you can save costs and reduce your carbon footprint. We will also cover the energy saving initiatives by hardware providers and show how these are being adopted into the Microsoft portfolio.