Solution Accelerators June Newsletter

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JUNE 2010  MOF Beta  App-V Dashboard  IPD security guidance  New MOF resources  Service Manager Dashboard  IPD case study Utilize existing investments and data centers with Microsoft guidance and tools for cloud services Obtain the knowledge needed to benefit from cloud services, transforming and enhancing the way your organization does business.  Take advantage of Dynamic Datacenter resources from Microsoft Solution Accelerators, and help provide your organization with cost-effective, agile IT services.   www.microsoft.com/cloudtools New virtualization and Dynamic Datacenter resources from the Solution Accelerators team Join a beta review program Apply MOF guidance to Microsoft products and technologies: Download new beta materials. These workbooks, diagrams, and companion guides help you provide services that run smoothly and deliver expected value. Join the MOF Beta, and provide feedback on these new releases. Get more guidance and best practices: Download MOF 4.0. Download new Solution Accelerators Keep track of your virtualized applications in near-real time! The Application Virtualization (App-V) Dashboard helps you keep track of the usage, health, and compliance of your virtualized applications, in near-real time! Using the Dashboard's built-in charts, gauges, and tables, you can track any App-V dataset. The Dashboard can be installed in minutes, and it's easy to customize to meet the unique needs of each organization. Plan and manage your infrastructure with new security guidance from the IPD team. These two new Infrastructure Planning and Design guides can be used together to design a FIM certificate-brokering service that is integrated with AD CS to deliver identity-managed certificate services. Learn more; then download this new guidance: IPD Guide for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 IPD Guide for Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Accelerate your organization's transition to the Dynamic Datacenter and keep Microsoft technologies running smoothly with new MOF resources. This eclectic combination of resources--a sampling of workbooks, guides, and action plans--will help your organization meet goals, improve service management, and provide flexible, cost-effective services. Best Practices for Service Vendor Management Continuous Improvement: A MOF Companion Guide MOF Action Plan: Standard Changes MOF Reliability Workbook for Microsoft Application Virtualization MOF Reliability Workbook for User State Virtualization Technical Service Reliability Guide and Workbook for the Dynamic Datacenter Using Standard Changes to Improve Provisioning: A MOF Companion Guide Stay on top of incident and problem resolution, change control, and asset lifecycle management. The Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 Dashboard provides a consolidated, near-real-time view of key IT service management processes. Using the Dashboard's built-in charts, gauges, and tables, you can track any Service Manager dataset, even without access to the Service Manager console application. The Dashboard can be installed in minutes, and it's easy to customize to meet the unique needs of each organization. Download the Service Manager Dashboard.  Featured case study New Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) case study: AKOS Technology Services. Read the latest IPD case study to learn how to make infrastructure planning work for you. © Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft is a trademark of the Microsoft Group of companies. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. To cancel your subscription to this newsletter, reply to this message with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the Subject line. You can also unsubscribe at the Microsoft.com Web site. You can manage all your Microsoft.com communication preferences at this site. Legal Information. This newsletter was sent by the Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, Washington, USA 98052

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