| | Launched Live: Solution Accelerators for Microsoft Online Services
Microsoft Online Services combine software with the power of Internet services, helping you quickly and easily add or extend the capabilities of your organization -- without straining your resources. Microsoft recognizes that you require valuable, flexible, cost-effective technology for your online services deployment.
On Nov 17th, Solution Accelerators co-launched 3 accelerators that automate discovery, assess requirements for migration, and provide you with the prescriptive guidance and operations framework to migrate and deploy new services faster and more efficiently.
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New Solution Accelerator Releases
Exchange Online: Evaluating Software-plus-Services
The Exchange Online: Evaluating Software-plus-Services Guide is part of the Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide series, and provides a clear comparison of e-mail technologies including on-premises, standard hosting, and dedicated hosting scenarios. You can use it as a framework for evaluating the technical feasibility of using Microsoft Exchange Online for your organization.
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) 3.2 Toolkit
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit v3.2 has been released and adds a whole slew of new features to the already powerful MAP toolkit. In addition to evaluating and reporting on the upgrade and virtualization readiness of the computers in your network, this new version of MAP now includes a Microsoft Online Services Needs Assessment and Survey.
Additional new MAP features include:
| • | SQL Server Database Instance Discovery |
| • | Forefront Client Security/NAP Readiness Assessment |
| • | Power Savings Calculator |
| • | Virtualization Infrastructure Assessment (e.g. reporting the mapping of hosts by guests)
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Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0
This popular Solution Accelerator for Virtual Machine Servicing has been updated to support Hyper-V and the latest versions of Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and System Center Configuration Manager. This solution (which is backwards-compatible with version 1.0 of the accelerator), automates patching of virtual machines which may have become vulnerable or non compliant from being offline for an extended period.
Additional Solution Accelerators to check out
The IT Compliance Management Guide
The IT Compliance Management guide can help you shift your governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) efforts from people to technology. Use its configuration guidance to help you efficiently address your organization's GRC objectives.
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New Beta: Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
New desktop virtualization technologies from Microsoft offer more choices to optimize desktop flexibility, richness, and cost-effectiveness. To help you make the best technology choices for your desktop users, Microsoft has classified user needs into five different scenarios based on user profiles: Office workers, Mobile workers, Task workers, Contract or offshore workers, and Access from home workers.
This new BETA accelerator helps you choose the right scenario for your organization which can be optimally met by different combinations of desktop technologies.
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