| | Solution Accelerators for Microsoft System Center
Reduce development costs and deliver solutions faster with the latest Solution Accelerators for Microsoft System Center. If you're deploying products through Microsoft System Center, Solution Accelerators for System Center can help finish your projects faster and more reliably.
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) 3.1 Toolkit
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 quickly and automatically conducts network-wide desktop and server assessments that help you:
| • | Determine server readiness for migration to Windows Server 2008 |
| • | Determine server virtualization candidates using Hyper-V Server or Virtual Server 2005 R2 |
| • | Determine desktop readiness for Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 |
| • | Determine migration candidates for database servers to upgrade to SQL Server 2008
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Case Studies: Read how Costco Wholesale Corporation and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center are using the MAP Toolkit to accelerate Hyper-V planning.
Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide
The newly updated Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for System Center 2007 now includes App-V application virtualization.
The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for System Center help you plan and design your infrastructure for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Align your decisions with your business requirements -- and get it right the first time.
Microsoft Deployment 2008 Toolkit
Microsoft Deployment 2008 Toolkit Update 1 now includes a revised System Center Operations Manager Management Pack and new documentation -- giving you you the ability to install desktop and server operating systems faster and more reliably.
Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool for System Center Virtual Machine Manager enables you to bring groups of virtual machines online just long enough to receive updates without exposing them to security risks. This tool works with System Center Virtual Machine Manager and software update management systems, including Windows Server Update Services 3.0 and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit
The Sharepoint Monitoring Toolkit for System Center Operations Manager 2007 helps you monitor and manage your Microsoft Office SharePoint environments, including Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Packs also help monitor performance and availability, so you can efficiently detect issues and quickly take corrective action.
Service Level Dashboard Management Pack
The Service Level Dashboard Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 helps you monitor and report on Sharepoint Services. With it you can:
| • | Monitor business application performance end-to-end -- from the user's side and the server side |
| • | Measure and assess application components against defined serivce levels |
| • | Automatically generate performance reports |
| • | Pinpoint exactly where issues arise, so you can proactively correct them
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Security Compliance Management Toolkit
This toolkit includes best practices to make planning, deploying, and monitoring your security baseline easier. Using Microsoft Desired Configuration Monitor (DCM) with the Security Compliance Management toolkit gives you the ability to effectively monitor the compliance state of the recommended security baselines for Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP2.
Help shape a new governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solution
The OneCompliance initiative is exploring a GRC management solution that will reduce the burden of risk and compliance management for organizations. We envision an integrated platform that could include the following:
| • | Conducting risk assessments |
| • | Mapping risk to business objectives |
| • | Identifying and assessing control activities |
| • | Managing remediation and issues |
| • | Addressing policy management |
The plan is to enable organizations to reuse content; for example, testing controls once and re-using them multiple times. The OneCompliance initiative will also provide dashboard reports to monitor the state of risk and compliance. Join us and keep up to date by signing up for the OneCompliance program in Microsoft Connect.
Alternately, you can visit http://connect.microsoft.com and use Invite ID sasp-DJT4-RX7J.
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