Here are three videos from the French Days with Microsoft to use Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 in a company with a focus on new, particularly on the deployment of workstations, administration and mobility. You will need the Silverlight plugin to play videos.
The first video shows the new features of VPN Reconnect (automatic reconnection after an interruption of the VPN), Direct Access (a kind of VPN is transparent to the user) and search functions of Windows 7 (locally or on the web directly from Explorer).
The second video shows the enhancements to BitLocker (USB encryption for example) and AppLocker (prevents the installation of unauthorized programs by version number, name, or publisher from the digital signature included in the file ).
Finally, the third shows the news related to virtualization (attachment virtual disk, boot to a virtual disk, Windows XP compatibility mode) or the Branch Cache feature (allows a PC to an agency not to re-download a file from the central agency if another PC has done recently). A tool for capturing a user's actions leading to a bug is also shown.
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