New Solution Accelerators Released - deployment, virtualisation, Office security and Sharepoint
I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday if you had one, a merry Xmas if you celebrate it, and I wish you all a happy and profitable new year ! The first good piece of news for our partners in 2008 is the release of some new solution accelerators.
"Solution Accelerators contain best practices recommended by Microsoft product groups—as well as automated tools to help you carry out these practices, shorten presales and deployment phases, and build profitability. All implemented and tested in actual customer environments.
Reduce your overall cost of development and ease entry into new markets. And help your customers address key concerns like infrastructure management, communications, collaboration, security, and regulatory compliance."
- Microsoft Deployment 2007 - Try the next release of Microsoft Deployment 2007 and see how the latest in planning and automating desktop and server deployment can save time and increase efficiency for you and your customers.
- Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Virtualization - Optimize your design process and cut costs with Infrastructure Planning and Design guides—the next version of Microsoft Windows Server System Reference Architecture.
- 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide - Enhance your consulting opportunities and build additional revenue with the Microsoft Office Security Guide 2007. This guide’s tested best practices, preconfigured security settings, and automation tools can help you rapidly deploy hundreds of security configurations in 2007 Office systems across your midsize and enterprise-level customers.
Plus these 3 are in beta:
- Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator Beta - This fully integrated and automated tool offers agentless inventory, comprehensive assessment, and actionable recommendations for migration to Windows Server 2008, Windows Server Virtualization, Terminal Services, SoftGrid, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and more. The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool will be integrated into the release version of this Solution Accelerator.
- SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit Beta - You can use this toolkit to manage Microsoft SharePoint environments of all sizes with two new management packs for System Operations Manager 2007.
- SharePoint Capacity Planning Beta - This application previews a new Solution Accelerator for SharePoint Capacity Planning using System Center Capacity Planner 2007.
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Anonymous
January 01, 2008
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January 02, 2008
Microsoft has recently released solutions accelerators for deployment and virtualization. "Microsoft