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Blog gue selesai!!

Akhirnya tugas blog ini selasai juga :)

Setelah gue bertanya-tanya, tugas yang merepotkan ini selesai juga haha, dan alhamdulillah gue dapet nilai yang memuaskan. lumayanlah buat nutupin nilai uts gue yang jelek.

Dan makasi buat semua orang yang udah ngebantuin gue nyelesaiin tugas ini (especially for anindya hana)

makasi yaa :)

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Windows 7 Features

Unique technology for enterprise customers

 

The Windows 7 Enterprise operating system (OS) is available to Microsoft Software Assurance customers. With Windows 7 Enterprise, you can take advantage of the following features that are not available in Windows 7 Professional:

• DirectAccess: Give mobile users seamless access to corporate networks without a need to VPN.
• BranchCache: Decrease the time branch office users spend waiting to download files across the network.
• Federated Search: Find information in remote repositories, including SharePoint sites, with a simple user interface.
• BitLocker and BitLocker To Go: Help protect data on PCs and removable drives, with manageability to enforce encryption and backup of recovery keys.
• AppLocker: Specify what software is allowed to run on a user's PCs through centrally managed but flexible Group Policies.
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) optimizations: Improved user experience for VDI with multimon and microphone support, which have the ability to reuse virtual hard drive (VHD) images to boot a physical PC.
• Multilingual user interface: Create a single OS image for deployment to users worldwide.
  
  

 

Enhance mobility and manageability with DirectAccess

• Working outside the office is easier than ever. DirectAccess in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 enhances the productivity of mobile workers by connecting them seamlessly and more securely to their corporate network any time they have Internet access—without the need to VPN. When your IT department enables DirectAccess, the corporate network’s file shares, intranet websites, and line-of-business applications remain accessible wherever you have an Internet connection.
• Manage remote machines more effectively. Flexibility gives IT the opportunity to service remote machines on a regular basis and ensure that mobile users stay up to date with company policies. With DirectAccess, IT administrators can manage mobile computers by updating Group Policy settings and distributing software updates any time the mobile computer has Internet connectivity, even if the user is not logged on.
• Enhance security and access control. To keep data safer as it travels public networks, DirectAccess uses IPv6-over-IPsec to encrypt communications transmitted across the Internet. DirectAccess is designed to reduce unnecessary traffic on the corporate network by sending only traffic destined for the corporate network through the DirectAccess server (running Windows Server 2008 R2), or the administrator can choose to send all traffic through the corporate network. In addition to authenticating the computer, DirectAccess can also authenticate the user and supports multifactor authentication, such as a smart card. IT administrators can configure which intranet resources specific users can access using DirectAccess.

 

Improve application responsiveness with BranchCache

• Increase branch office user productivity. BranchCache in Windows 7 helps increase the network responsiveness of applications, giving users in remote offices an experience more like working in the head office. When accessing content stored on Windows Server 2008 R2, users in a branch office don't need to wait as long to download files from headquarters. When IT enables BranchCache, a copy of data accessed from an intranet website or a file server is cached locally within the branch office. When another user on the same network requests the file, the user gets access to the content almost immediately as it is downloaded from the local cache rather than over a limited bandwidth connection back to headquarters.
• Flexible architecture. BranchCache only serves content to users who have the right permissions and always checks to make sure it is delivering the latest version of the file. BranchCache can operate in one of two modes. In Hosted Cache mode, a server in the branch running Windows Server 2008 R2 hosts the cached files. In the second mode, Distributed Cache, a branch server is not required; copies of files are directly cached on PCs in the branch and sent to other Windows 7 clients as needed.
• Versatile and efficient protocols. BranchCache only retrieves data from headquarters when the user requests it. Because it is a passive cache, it decreases bandwidth utilization between headquarters and the branch. BranchCache only caches read requests, so it will never interfere with a user saving a file. BranchCache supports common protocols for web content (HTTP and HTTPS) and file servers (server messaging block [SMB]), enabling it to work with a wide variety of application types. Finally, it works seamlessly with network security technologies, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), SMB signing, and Internet Protocol security (IPsec) to improve application performance even if the content is encrypted.
  
  
  
  

Help users find what they need with Federated Search

• Search enhancements in Windows 7 make finding information easier.Enterprise users need to access data from a variety of sources in their daily tasks. With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced advanced desktop search technology, enabling users to instantly find information on their computers. With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Enterprise Search family of products, Microsoft delivered highly secure, manageable, server-based search. Windows 7 brings these experiences together and provides users with an improved and seamless search experience across local and networked corporate data directly within Windows Explorer and the Start menu.
• More intuitive ways to find and organize information. Advancements to the Windows 7 user interface (UI) make it easier for users to quickly find what they are looking for. Libraries are a new way of accessing documents that might be located in different folders, on different hard drives, or even on different computers that are backed by a Windows Search index—in a single view. Windows 7 creates several default libraries for items such as documents and pictures, allowing you to organize and browse files in an optimal way. You can also create custom libraries. For example, libraries can be created per project to provide one entry point under which you can organize, access, and search files spread across multiple locations.
• Searching beyond the local computer with federated search. Windows 7 enables users to search remote document repositories, SharePoint sites, and Web applications as easily as they search their desktops—through the familiar Windows interface. Windows 7 federated search uses an existing public standard called OpenSearch. Users can select which sites they want to search from, or IT can populate a list for the user. Federated search results are presented in Windows explorer much like local files, with rich views, file details, and previews.
• Flexible search scopes. Making it easy to discover and search intranet sites can help organizations maximize their return on these investments. With Enterprise Search Scopes in Windows 7, IT administrators can populate links on the Start menu and in the Windows Explorer search results. These links simplify access to the most appropriate, complete, authoritative data sources on the network. This setup makes content on intranet portals more discoverable and accessible. IT administrators can deploy Enterprise Search scopes on users' machines using Group Policy.

 

Help prevent loss or theft of data with BitLocker and 

BitLocker To Go

• Protect your data—even on removable drives. With the continued growth of the mobile workforce, protecting sensitive data on mobile computers continues to be a major concern of IT decision makers. In 2008, 42 percent of respondents to the Computer Security Institute Computer Crime and Security Survey of enterprise IT professionals report that their organizations experienced theft of laptops or mobile devices. With Windows 7, BitLocker Drive Encryption helps protect sensitive data from being accessed by unauthorized users who come into possession of lost, stolen, or improperly decommissioned computers. BitLocker to Go extends BitLocker data protection to USB storage devices, enabling them to be restricted with a passphrase. In addition to having control over passphrase length and complexity, IT administrators can set a policy that requires users to apply BitLocker protection to removable drives before being able to write to them.
• Easier to manage. Windows 7 gives administrators more control over how data in their environment is protected. From policy-configured Active Directory Domain Services integration for the escrow of recovery keys, to simple and efficient hardware recovery processes, BitLocker provides an integrated management experience for IT professionals. BitLocker to Go also gives administrators control over how removable storage devices can be utilized within their environment and the strength of protection that they require. Administrators can require data protection for any removable storage device upon which users want to write data, while still allowing unprotected storage devices to be utilized in a read-only mode. Policies are also available to require appropriate passwords, smart card, or domain user credentials to utilize a protected removable storage device.
• Easier to set up. Whether you need to protect internal or removable drives, BitLocker in Windows 7 makes that protection easy because it works with almost any drive. Windows 7 simplifies the encryption of internal drives by automatically creating the hidden boot partition necessary to use BitLocker to protect the OS volume, eliminating the need to manually select that option during installation or to repartition the drive afterward. Best of all, BitLocker can be enabled on drives running Windows 7 with a simple right-click.

 

Help prevent unauthorized software from running with AppLocker

• Powerful, yet easy to administer. Windows 7 offers new application control policies with AppLocker, a flexible, easy-to-use mechanism that enables IT professionals to specify exactly what is allowed to run on user desktops. AppLocker restricts unauthorized software while allowing applications, installation programs, and scripts that users need. With this capability, IT professionals can realize the security, operational, and compliance benefits of application standardization.
• Application updates don't change the rules. AppLocker provides simple, powerful, rule-based structures for specifying which applications can run that are centrally managed using Group Policy. It introduces "publisher rules" that are based on an application's digital signature, making it possible to build strong rules that account for application updates. For example, an organization can create a rule to "allow all versions greater than 1.0 of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to run if signed by Microsoft." With correctly structured rules, IT professionals can safely deploy updates to allowed applications without having to build a new rule for each version update.
  
  

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Different Editions of Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft office 2007 launched in November of 2006, Microsoft launched Office 2007 at the same time it launched Windows Vista. Whereas Vista was more or less a marketing bust for the company, office 2007 went on to become the most successful version of Office to date.

Late last year, Microsoft promised a release date of “the middle of 2010” for the newest version of Office. Appropriately named Office 2010, we learned in January that the newest version of Office will be available in June of this year.

Over 3 and a half years after the release of Office 2007, Office 2010 will make its debut with a total of four retail editions. Microsoft decided to simplify things a bit since the 8 editions of Office 2007 were a bit more than consumers could easily understand. Read on to learn about the four retail versions of Office 2010 and the expected pricing of each.

Boxed and Product Key Cards

Retail versions of Office 2010 will be available in two forms. The traditional retail boxed form is how all previous versions of Office have been purchased since the introduction of the software. New Product Key Cards allow buyers to unlock Office 2010 that has been pre-installed on a new PC.

However, these two forms come with one caveat. Retail boxed versions will be licensed for installation on two PCs while the Product Key Card form will be licensed for installation on one PC only. The one exception is the Home and Student edition which is licensed for installation on up to three PC.

Office 2010 Editions and Pricing

At the top of the list is Office 2010 Professional that is marketed toward the high-end home and home office user. With the boxed retail version scheduled to cost US$499 and the Product Key Card priced at US$349, some significant savings can be had for opting to avoid the purchase of a physical product.

The Professional edition of Office 2010 contains Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. Notice that only the Professional edition of 2010 ships with Access 2010.

Next in line is the Home and Business edition, new to the office lineup. At US$279 for the retail box and US$199 for the Product Key Card, you can still save quite a bit of money by choosing the download version.

Office 2010 Home and Business ships with Word, excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook. This edition is aimed at middle-of-the-road consumers such as small business owners who would enjoy the scheduling and organization features of outlook.

For Office 2007, Home and Student was the most popular edition. This is likely a tradition that will carry over to Office 2010. Home and Student ships with Word, Excel, power point, and OneNote and is aimed at mainstream users of productivity software.

At just US$149 for the retail box and US$99 for the Product Key Card, this edition is clearly the best bargain in the bunch.

Finally, Office Professional 2010 Academic edition is licensed only for use by educators and students. Available in campus bookstores and some retail outlets, you must meet Microsoft’s lofty requirements before you can legally use the Academic edition.

Containing the same programs as the full retail Professional edition, this edition is the biggest bargain if you qualify for a license. At just $99, the savings on this edition just may make it worth going back to college.

Simplifying matters for consumers, Microsoft has backed off on the number of planned editions of Office 2010. Due in June of 2010, consumers can save significantly by choosing to purchase a Product Key Card rather than the full retail boxed version of the software when buying a new PC.

Remember, however, that with the exception of the Home and Student edition, the boxed versions are licensed for two PCs and the Product Key Card versions are licensed for one PC only.

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Cheap Netbooks, Notebooks, and Mini Laptops

Cheap 10 inch netbooks

• Toshiba Mini NB255. This one is the cheaper version of the Toshiba NB305, one of the best netbooks on the market, combing the hardware inside that one with the looks of my old Toshiba NB205. You get the standard hardware and OS (N455 processor, 1 GB of memory and 160 GB HDD, Windows 7 Starter), standard display (10.1 inch glossy) and a sturdy matte casing (only available in black). There’s also a proper battery (capable of 8 hours of life on a single charge), so there’s not much to miss, but the great chiclet keyboard available on the bigger brother and Bluetooh. Still, for its price, this Toshiba NB255 is right now unbeatable if you want the best budget netbook.

• HP Mini 210.  When compared with the Toshiba above, this HP Mini 210 is pretty much the same in terms of specs. However, it looks better, as it is a higher class laptop with a huge discount these days. You get a bigger 10 hours battery, chiclet keyboard and a couple of different color schemes to choose from, all for around 300 bucks. Sounds good ay? Oh, and since this discount, my experience tells me HP is trying to get rid of stocks, so I doubt this offer will be available for too long. Thus better grab fast it if you find it interesting.

         

• matte Samsung N150. Samsung netbooks aren’t that popular in US, however they top bestselling lists in Europe. so they are very very good. This one has the advantage of being completely matte, that includes a non glare screen as well as a smooth matte casing. It is only available in Black for this price, with a nice red strap (see pic). Specs are pretty much similar to the ones of the other devices in this class and you do get a chiclet keyboard for this Samsung as well. So if you look for a light budget netbook great for outdoors (because of that display), this is it right now.

        

  

• Acer AO532h. Last but not least, there’s this Acer 10 incher. Available with a nice price and in a couple of different colors, this one is completely glossy. So will be your pick if you’re a fan of these sparkly finishes, I for one ain’t. Everything else is standard, from specs to features. You only get a flat keyboard (with a special design Acer uses), 8 hours battery and no Bluetooth.

          

Cheap 11.6 -12 inch mini notebooks

• Acer Aspire Ao721. This is one of the thinnest (1 inch) 11.6 inch notebooks on the market right now. Packs a single core AMD processor with ATI graphics, 1 GB of memory and 250 GB hard-drive. That hardware is capable of running the OS snappy and face HD content (Flash or self stored), plus some older games. Battery life is only around 5 hours and while the device is reasonably well built, that plastic used for the casing ain’t that great looking. Still, for a budget mini notebook, this is one of your best picks. Reviews from experts and regulars users stand as proof as well.

         

• Toshiba Satellite T115D.  For this kind of money you will get the single -core AMD powered version. Specs are pretty much the same as on the Acer above, although graphics are somewhat poorer and there’s more memory installed by default (2 GB). You do get slightly better looks and a better keyboard (chiclet), while battery life remains around the 5 hours margin on a single charge. Plus, you get 64 bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled, while the Acer above came with Starter. Still, this one is quite heavy for an 11.6 incher, weighing around 3.5 pounds.

           

• Dell Inspiron i11z. Unlike the devices above, this Dell comes wit Intel inside, so it is slightly faster in everyday tasks. It’s still a single core processor, packed along with 2 GB of memory, 250 GB hard-drive and Windows 7 Home Premium. The device is also more compact and lighter (weighs around 3 pounds), but because of that only comes with a 95% Full-Size keyboard (slightly smaller than a regular one) and smaller battery (capable of only 4 hours of life). It is 50 bucks cheaper than all the other options in here though, so if on a budget, that should matter a lot too.

          

• Asus EEE PC 1201PN. Unlike the devices above, this EEE PC is slightly bigger, with a 12 inch display. It is also better built and better looking, available in a couple of different colors. Inside you get an Atom N450 processor usually found on smaller 10 inch devices, but there’s also the Nvidia ION2+Optimus for graphics (so it will run HD content, including 10180p, plus some games). However, since there’s that single core processor on board, don’t expect too much from the little fellow. Still, it is affordable, comes with a very nice Full-Size chiclet Keyboard and Bluetooth (which other devices in this price range lack) and because it packs Optimus, battery life can get up to 7 hours of light use.

          

Best budget mini laptops (13.3 inch+)

• Acer Aspire Timeline AS3810TZ. This is an ultra thin (1.1 inch) and light (3.5 pounds) 13.3 incher and is quite a nice machine to have. Packs a single core Intel SU4100 processor, 4 GB of memory, 320 GB hard-drive and Windows 7 Home Premium. There’s also a nice island keyboard and a 6 Cell battery capable of 8 hours of life. So pretty good, considering you can get it discounted these days. See the link for more details.

         

• Toshiba Satellite T235D. This is a new generation 13.3″ mini laptop from Toshiba, boosting the new design and the chicket keyboard/trackpad combo (perhaps the best in its class) . You get a dual-core AMD processor with ATI graphics, so it’s better than the Acer above in terms of performances, but battery life has to suffer (only around 6 hours on a charge). So quite a machine if you’re on a budget, as proven by the great reviews scored with buyers.

         

• Toshiba Satellite L645D. This is the bigger Toshiba, the 14 incher. It packs a triple core AMD processor for even more power and a DVD-writer, but it is quite bulky and heavy when compared to all the other machines in this post, weighing nearly 5 pounds. So not that portable, but fast and with a great price. These qualities in fact make it one of the most popular laptops of all in the States right now and the best sold in its class (14 inch).

          

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