As you will have seen at Microsoft TechEd North America and Europe,
we have just delivered the Preview Release of Windows Server 2012 R2
with a stunning amount of new capability that is Cloud First.
My name is Adam Hall and I look after one of the solution areas
within People-centric IT that we call “Access & Information
Protection”. In this post I will provide more information about what
this actually is and the focus areas we have around Bring Your Own
Device (BYOD) and the Consumerization of IT.
People-centric IT
is about helping organizations empower their users to work on the
devices they choose without compromising their information integrity or
compliance. The challenge this presents to customers is that as soon as
their user works on a device that they do not manage or even have any
knowledge of, it becomes very difficult to retain control of sensitive
corporate information, and to be able to respond to situations such as
the device being sold, lost or stolen.
With our Access & Information Protection solutions, we deliver
capabilities that help our customers solve this very challenging problem
in the following ways:
Simple registration and enrollment for users adopting Bring Your Own Device programs (BYOD).
Users can register their device using Workplace Join which creates a
new device object in Active Directory and installs a certificate on the
device, allowing IT to take into account the users device authentication
as part of conditional access policies. Users can also opt-in to the
Windows Intune management service for consistent access to applications
(including internal LOB apps and links to public app stores), management
of their own devices and to gain access to their data.
Users can work from the device of their choice to access corporate resources regardless of location.
New in Windows Server 2012 R2 are the Web Application Proxy and Work
Folders. The Web Application Proxy provides the ability to publish
access to internal resources and perform Multi-Factor Authentication at
the edge. Work Folders is a new file sync solution that allows users to
sync their files from a corporate file server to all their devices both
internally and externally.
IT can better protect corporate information and mitigate risk
by being able to manage a single identity for each user across both
on-premises and cloud-based applications.
As users blend their work and personal lives, and organizations adopt
a mixture of traditional on-premises and cloud based solutions, IT
needs a way to consistently manage the user’s identity and provide users
with a single sign-on to all their resources. Microsoft helps our
customers by providing users with a common identity across on-premises
or cloud-based services leveraging existing Windows Server Active
Directory investments and then connecting to Windows Azure Active
Directory. In Windows Server 2012 R2, we have significantly enhanced
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to be easier to deploy and
configure, tightly integrated with the Web Application Proxy for simple
publishing and federating between Active Directory and Azure AD.
IT can access managed mobile devices to remove corporate data
and applications in the event that the device is lost, stolen, or
retired from use.
Whether a device is lost, stolen or simply being repurposed, there
will be times when IT needs to ensure that the corporate information
stored on the device is no longer accessible. With Windows Server 2012
R2, System Center configuration Manager 2012 R2 and Windows Intune,
companies have the ability to selectively wipe corporate information
while leaving personal data intact.
IT can set policy-based access control for compliance and data protection.
With users working on their own devices, the accessing of corporate
resources and storage of information on these devices presents some
challenges for ensuring compliance needs are met and information
remaining secure. Windows Server 2012 R2, through the Web Application
Proxy, ADFS and Work Folders provides compelling and powerful solutions
to make it easy for our customers to make resources available but also
remain in control of information. As we showed in the TechEd Europe
keynote in Madrid this week, Work Folders is integrated with Dynamic
Access Control, providing the ability to automatically classify
information based on content, and perform tasks such as protecting with
Rights Management Services, even for data that is created and stored on
clients!
To see People-centric IT, including System Center 2012 R2
Configuration Manager, Windows Intune, and Windows Server 2012 R2 in
action, you can watch a complete presentation and end-to-end
demonstration from the TechEd North America Foundational Session. You can also learn more about People-centric IT by downloading the People-centric IT Preview Guide.
Be sure to download System Center 2012 R2 Preview Configuration Manager and Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview today!
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