| | Get ready for Windows 8 with the Solution Accelerators team!
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| | Ensure a secure Windows Server 2012 Beta deployment with MDT 2012! Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 is now available for download! MDT 2012 provides support for Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 Beta, and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager releases. MDT 2012 fully leverages the capabilities provided by Configuration Manager 2012 for OS deployment. The latest version of MDT offers new User-Driven Installation components and extensibility for Configuration Manager 2007 and 2012. You now also have the ability to migrate MDT 2012 task sequences from Configuration Manager 2007 to Configuration Manager 2012. |
| | Secure cloud deployment from the start with new baselines from SCM 2.5! Microsoft Security Compliance Manager 2.5 (SCM 2.5) is now available for download! Windows Server baselines include a Hyper-V baseline which addresses secure cloud deployment. SCM 2.5 provides ready-to-deploy policies and DCM configuration packs that are tested and fully supported. Our product baselines are based on Microsoft Security Guide recommendations and industry best practices, allowing users to manage configuration drift, address compliance requirements, and reduce security threats. |
| Coming Soon! Determine Windows 8 readiness with MAP 7.0 Beta Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0 Beta is coming soon! MAP 7.0 helps you to assess the readiness of your environment for deploying Windows 8 in your machines. The Windows adoption feature performs a hardware assessment against the recommended system requirements for Windows 8 and provides recommendations about which machines meet Win 8 system requirements and which machines require upgrades. Key benefits include a migration assessment report and proposal to help you understand the scope of migration opportunity for Windows 8, along with an inventory of desktop computers, deployed operating systems, and applications. |
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| | Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Beta now available! Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) is now available for beta download. MVMC provides a Microsoft-supported, freely available, standalone solution for converting VMware virtual machines (VMs) and VMware virtual disks (VMDKs) to Hyper-V VMs and Hyper-V virtual hard disks (VHDs). This tool is a quick, low-risk option for VMware customers to evaluate Hyper-V. |
| | Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 8 Beta now available! The Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 8 Beta is now available for download! The toolkit supports both Windows Server 8 Beta file servers and Windows Server 2008 R2 file servers. In addition to configuring file classification infrastructure, the latest version of the toolkit allows you to manage Central Access Policy across the file servers in your organization. |
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