Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Solution Accelerators: Tools and guidance from Microsoft

Solution Accelerators Newsletter for IT Pros
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March 2010




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Accelerate IT planning and right-size your infrastructure with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0. This agentless tool is designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. It performs an inventory of heterogeneous server environments and provides you with usage information for servers in the Core CAL Suite, a data center infrastructure assessment survey, and a readiness assessment for the most widely used Microsoft technologies, now including Office 2010. Join the MAP Toolkit 5.0 Beta 1, and influence the development of this Solution Accelerator.

Get the current version: Download the MAP Toolkit 4.0.

Monitor virtualized software applications across your organization with the App-V Dashboard. Use this free, graphical dashboard to keep track of your virtualized applications! Join the beta review program for the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Dashboard.

Preview and provide feedback on the latest MOF Reliability Workbooks. These resources provide the knowledge needed to keep technologies running smoothly so you can deliver the services your organization expects. The newest workbooks in the series address Internet Information Services, Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager, Network Load Balancing, and Windows Server® 2008 DNS Server. Join the MOF Beta.

Download the previously released Reliability Workbooks.


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Want technology services that deliver expected business value? Download the MOF Management Reviews guide. This resource offers guidance to help management set goals, evaluate progress, and confirm results, ultimately ensuring that technology services are on track to deliver expected business value. The management reviews in the guide include Portfolio, Service Alignment, Project Plan Approved, Release Readiness, Operational Health, and Policy and Control.

Improve service delivery with the MOF Service Mapping guide. This new guide is intended to introduce the content, structure, development, usage, and benefits of service maps. Service maps are graphical representations of a technology service that illustrate the various components that rely on the seccessful delivery of that service; this guidance will help users better understand and utilize these graphical representations. Download the MOF Service Mapping guide.


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