Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Solution Accelerators Newsletter: Year in Review

Solution Accelerators Newsletter for IT Professionals
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January 2009
In this Issue:
Help us improve Solution Accelerators for you!
Year end review of Solution Accelerators
Security Guides for Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and 2007 Microsoft Office
New Beta: Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
New Beta: Secure and Monitor your Windows and Office environment
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Learn how other Microsoft Partners are using Solution Accelerators to win new engagements, reduce costs, and grow profits.
Discover the value of using Solution Accelerators for your business!
Year in Review

2008 was a banner year for Solution Accelerators, which saw updates to many accelerators and the release of new suites, tools, and guides to make your job easier.

Help us improve Solution Accelerators for you!

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Year end review of Solution Accelerators

Accelerators for Securing your IT environment
If you want to secure your network environment quickly and proactively, check out Security Solution Accelerators-a suite of free tools and guidance to help you stay ahead of your security challenges.
Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0
Microsoft® Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0 delivers practical guidance for everyday IT practices and activities, helping users establish and implement reliable, cost-effective IT services.

Accelerators for Microsoft On-Line Services
Solution Accelerators for Microsoft On-line Services includes 3 accelerators that automate discovery, assess requirements for migration, and provide you with the guidance and operations framework to deploy new services faster and more efficiently.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning v3.2
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 quickly and automatically conducts network-wide desktop and server assessments that help you assess your network, upgrade readiness, and virtualization candiidates quickly and automatically.

Microsoft Deployment 2008 toolkit
The Microsoft Deployment 2008 Toolkit gives you the ability to install desktop and server operating systems faster and more reliably.

Security Compliance Management Toolkit
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

IT Compliance 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.


Accelerators for Virtualization
If you're interested in the growing trend towards virtualization, check out our new Virtualization Solution Accelerators -- a suite of free tools and guidance to help you with each stage of your virtualization IT project.

Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection
This kit helps you strengthen your malware defense strategy. With it you can help protect your network infrastructure by configuring a compliance health policy, monitoring the operational health of Forefront Client Security in real time, and remediating problems that arise.

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides
The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides help you plan and design your infrastructure for Microsoft technologies.

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.

Service Level Dashboard Management Pack
The Service Level Dashboard Management Pack helps you monitor monitor business application performance end-to-end -- from the user's side and the server side.

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.

Security Guides for Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and 2007 Microsoft Office

Security guides provide instructions and recommendations to help strengthen the security of computers running Windows Server® 2008, Windows Vista, and 2007 Microsoft Office. Each guide includes step-by-step procedures and recommendations that streamline the deployment process. Each guide also includes the GPO Accelerator Tool, which automatically deploys security recommendations.
Security guide download and home page links

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.


New Beta: Secure and Monitor your Windows and Office environment

Project Codename Sundance provides you with an end-to-end solution to help your organization plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows® operating systems and 2007 Microsoft® Office applications. The Beta release is available now for your review.


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