Below is a quick overview from the TechEd 2009 Keynote. It was focused on the IT side of things (vs. the developer side).

• Group Policy settings for BitLocker to Go. One option will dis-allow writing to a removable drive if BitLockerToGo is not enabled for that drive.
• AppLocker
  • Specify allow or disallow by publisher
  • Use rules like version 1.0 or higher from Publisher X and Program Y. This allows you to allow a specific application to run, but not have to update the rule when a new version comes out (like you did in the previous version).
• Problem Steps Recorder
  • End-User can record problems as they re-produce them. Creates a zip file that contains a compiled html file and a series of images.
• PowerShell V2 included in Windows 7.
  • PS v2 can target remote computers.
  • Also looks like it comes with a IDE for power shell.
• Enterprise Desktop Vitalization
  • Seamless virtualization experience for end users. They really don’t even know stuff is virtualized, aside from possible the window chrome looking different, and a red outline around the window
  • VMs can be configure to expire
  • Restrict VMs such that data can not be copied off of them
• Office 2010 preview released in July
• Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
  • Server 2008 R2 is 64bit only
  • Server 2008 R2 and Win7 tracking for holiday 09 release
  • Mount and interact with VHD files in Win7 and R2, boot from VHD, and patch VHD’s while they are offline.
  • New Active Directory Undelete feature
• Iain McDonald – Server Manager from MS
  • Option to “View Script” in the Management GUI’s and see the power shell script that is being executed. Allows you to quickly learn how to write scripts for management.
  • Says that most people who have Live Migration (VMWare) don’t use the automated migration, but manually move stuff around.
  • Clustered Hyper-V in R2 will support migration between physical hosts with different specs, processors, etc.
  • Remove core dispatcher lock to allow apps live SQL Server to scale very well
  • File Classification Infrastructure:
    • Find files by keywords and then set policies for those files. For example, search for all documents with company confidentiality statement and move them to a secure folder leaving a symlink in the original location, and setup links in a SharePoint site.
    • OCR technology built into R2 for searching for text in images.
    • Use FCI to do housekeeping, clean up old files, etc. For example, if a file is older than 10 years, or hasn’t been modified in the last year, delete the file. However, send a warning to the owner of the document 15 days before.
  • Exchange 2010
    • Search e-mail by keyword and apply policies
    • Outlook Web Access (OWA) is now able to view protected documents
    • OWA can search documents in e-mails
  • System Center Virtual Center
    • Shows the “View Script” feature
    • Migrated a VM running streaming video from one host to another with no noticeable disruptions.

From Twitter:

• Something called “Windows Phone” announced in a Windows Mobile 6.5 session. Confirmed as a phone (hardware) created by Microsoft running Windows Mobile 6.5. Actually it sounds like it is made by HTC and looks like the touch HD. Can’t find anything online about this as of yet.
• The ability to ignore a thread in Exchanged 2010