SQL 2008 Planning and Release Guide Beta’s

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02/26/2009

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides-Release Announcement
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released a new guide, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008.
This guide, when used in conjunction with product documentation, will help companies confidently plan the implementation of a SQL Server 2008 infrastructure. Fundamental tasks are addressed to help the reader identify which SQL Server roles will be needed as well as to determine the infrastructure's components, server placement, and the fault-tolerance configuration to meet necessary requirements. This IPD guide will help you get the most out of new features in SQL Server 2008, such as policy-based management and best practice design alerts, when planning your infrastructure. Other benefits of using this guide include best practice design guidance from the product group and an optimized infrastructure to best meet the business requirements.

Download the guide by visiting https://www.microsoft.com/ipd and selecting "Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008" under the Guidance section, toward the top of the page.

Take the Infrastructure Planning and Design Survey!
The Infrastructure Planning and Design Team is interested in how you are using the IPD guides in your organization. We are offering you the opportunity to share your thoughts and make the IPD guides work better for you. Please take a moment to complete this brief survey.

Click here to participate in the Infrastructure Planning and Design survey
Infrastructure Planning and Design streamlines the planning process by:

Defining the technical decision flow through the planning process.
Listing the decisions to be made and the commonly available options and considerations.
Relating the decisions and the options to the business in terms of cost, complexity, and other characteristics.
Framing the decisions in terms of additional questions to the business to ensure a comprehensive alignment with the appropriate business landscape.

Tell your peers about IPD guides! Please forward this mail to anyone who wants to learn more about Infrastructure Planning and Design guides.

Join the Beta
Additional Infrastructure Planning and Design guides are available as beta releases on the Connect Web site. They are open beta downloads. See below for instructions on how to access the beta guides.
To join the Infrastructure Planning and Design Beta, follow these steps:

Visit the Infrastructure Planning and Design Beta at https://connect.microsoft.com.
Sign in using a valid Windows Live ID to continue to the Invitations page.
Scroll down to Infrastructure Planning and Design.

If you have not previously registered with Microsoft Connect, you might be required to register before continuing with the invitation process. If the link in step 1 does not work for you, copy the link and paste it into the Web browser address bar.

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