Beta security guidance for planning and managing your infrastructure. Check out the latest beta guidance from the IPD team: Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 and Active Directory® Certificate Services (AD CS). The two guides can be used together to design a FIM certificate-brokering service that is integrated with AD CS to deliver identity-managed certificate services. Reduce time and planning costs by following the processes in these IPD guides to design a successful deployment of FIM and AD CS.
Download this beta guidance.Discover other security guidance from the IPD team.Make your virtualized environment more secure and compliant while saving time and money for your organization. Streamline the process of keeping offline virtual machines, templates, and virtual hard disks (VHDs) updated with the latest operating system and application patches, at less cost, and without introducing vulnerabilities into your IT infrastructure by using the powerful new features in VMST 3.0.
Download and try the beta.Try the current version of OVMST 2.1.Know what's in your IT environment with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 Beta 1. Check out the new heterogeneous server environment inventory feature of MAP 5.0 Beta 1, and know what's in your IT environment. Now you can perform a network inventory of IT assets and identify heterogeneous server environments consisting of Windows Server® and Linux operating systems, including those running in a virtual environment. MAP 5.0 Beta 1 also automates the discovery of Linux-powered LAMP stacks.
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Deploy Windows 7® security solutions with the Security Compliance Manager. The
Security Compliance Manager will help you plan, deploy, operate, and manage your security baselines for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.
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Stay on top of software deployments, security updates, IT compliance, and more! The
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard lets you keep track of application and operating system deployments, security updates, the health status of computers, and IT compliance with key regulations with an easy to use, customizable dashboard.
Download the Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard.Respond to changing market conditions with the IPD guide for the Dynamic Data Center. Delivering dynamically scalable IT resources can provide dramatic benefits to nearly all aspects of your organization's IT environment.
Download this guide, and learn how you can strategically plan a Dynamic Data Center infrastructure that is designed for ease of manageability.
Get the most from your Microsoft technologies with the MOF Reliability Workbooks. These new additions to the
MOF Technology Library provide the knowledge needed to keep technologies running smoothly so you can deliver the services your organization expects. The latest workbooks in the series address Active Directory Certificate Services, Internet Information Services, Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager, Network Load Balancing, and Windows Server® 2008 DNS Server.
Download the MOF Reliability Workbooks. 
