Solution Accelerators March Newsletter

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MARCH 2011  MMS focus group  VMMSSP 2.0 SP1 beta  IT GRC solution  MMS 2011  Windows Server 2008 R2 demo series  Windows 7 webcasts Follow us on Twitter! Get the latest tips from Microsoft Solution Accelerators...in 140 characters or less: @MSSolutionAccel. What's new with Solution Accelerators? Subscribe to our news feed. Stay in step with Solution Accelerators Visit the Solution Accelerators website. We want to be your friend. Like us on Facebook! Tell us what you think Contact us with your questions, comments, and stories.   March madness, Solution Accelerators-style Influence developing releases Participate in our focus group at MMS!   True or false? Compliance is a growing concern to you and your organization. My organization is considering the public or private cloud to drive down our infrastructure costs. I'm attending MMS 2011. If you answered yes to these questions, then we want to hear from you! Join the Solution Accelerators team at MMS, and share your insights with our experts. The discussion will focus on making IT GRC a proactive element of IT management systems and the journey to the cloud. Contact marney@microsoft.com today for more details! Deliver your private cloud platform with ease using new virtual machine import functionality.  You want to deliver a seamless private cloud platform inside your organization; we want you to provide pre-release feedback on the tool that makes it possible. The Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal (VMMSSP) 2.0 SP1 beta now allows you to import existing virtual machines created outside the self-service portal and re-import virtual machines previously removed from it. Download the beta, and help shape the development of the VMMSSP 2.0 SP1 beta release. Learn more about this fully-supported, extensible solution for the private cloud. Download the latest tools and guidance The SP1 release of the IT GRC Process Management Pack is now available for download. The IT GRC Process Management Pack is an IT GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) solution that integrates with the Microsoft System Center platform and takes advantage of the improved functionality of System Center Service Manager 2010 SP1. Implementing this end-to-end solution with System Center will help organizations address their compliance and regulatory commitments in an efficient and reliable manner. Download the SP1 release of the IT GRC Process Management Pack for System Center Service Manager. Learn more about the complete IT GRC solution. Access new IT pro resources We want to see you at MMS 2011! Ever wonder who's behind the tools and guidance provided by Solution Accelerators? Bring your questions to the city that never sleeps, and meet our deployment, migration, and planning experts! MMS 2011 is behind held in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 21 to 25, 2011. Visit our MMS site for Solution Accelerator session details, conference insights, and tips to share with your online community. To learn more or to register, visit www.mms-2011.com. New demo series: Simplified Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V migrations. Check out our new demo series, and learn how the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.5, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), and the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool can help you streamline and simplify your organization's migration to Windows Server 2008 R2. Get started with the MAP demo, and learn how MAP 5.5 can help you migrate to Windows Server 2008 R2, in addition to consolidating servers with Hyper-V technology. Next, view the MDT demo, and prepare for a simplified Windows Server 2008 R2 deployment. Wrap things up with the SCM demo, and discover how SCM can help you strengthen your Windows Server 2008 R2 environment. Visit the Learning Resources for Solution Accelerators site to access more featured resources. On-demand webcasts: Using Solution Accelerators for Windows 7 migration readiness. Weren't able to catch the two webcasts we told you about last month? Never fear! Recordings of the webcasts, both featuring senior IT pro evangelist John Baker, are now available. (Brief registration required.) Learn how MDT can ease your deployment process and help your organization quickly and cost-effectively deploy Windows 7.  Discover how to use SCM as an end-to-end solution as you plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines for Windows 7 across your organization's environment.         © 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 www.Microsoft.com. 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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