Windows Server 2008 CAL

Availability: Now

Value

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, with built-in Web and virtualization technologies, enables businesses to increase the reliability and flexibility of their server infrastructure. New virtualization tools, Web resources, and security enhancements help save time, reduce costs, and provide a platform for a dynamic and optimized datacenter. Powerful new tools, like Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 and Server Manager, provide more control over servers, and streamline Web, configuration, and management tasks. Advanced security and reliability enhancements, such as Network Access Protection and the Read-Only Domain Controller, harden the operating system and help protect the server environment to ensure a solid foundation on which to build businesses.

Key Benefits

• Server Consolidation and Resource Optimization—Hyper-V
• Modular, Minimal Installation—Server Core
• Delivering Rich Web Content and Applications—IIS 7.0
• Preventing Unhealthy Devices from Connecting to the Network—NAP
• Flexible Application Access for Remote Users—TS RemoteApp
• Modular, Minimal Installation—Server Core
• Improved Network Performance and Control—New TCP/IP Stack
• Supporting Business Continuity for Demanding Workloads—High Availability Features
• Enabling Secure Collaboration—Active Directory Federated Rights Management
• Easing Administration, Management, and Automation—Server Manager and PowerShell

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Exchange Server 2007 Standard CAL

Availability: Now

Value

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Standard CAL provides a feature-rich messaging environment for core users, including rich-client email, calendaring, mobile device access, and anti-spam functionality.

Key Benefits

• Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access--A rich experience similar to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 from any Internet-connected computer with a supported browser provides encrypted access to the inbox, powerful search, and the ability to view different types of attachments.
• Mobility--Exchange Server ActiveSync technology delivers an improved Microsoft Office Outlook e-mail and calendaring experience on mobile devices, while offering enhanced device and security policy control.
• Anti-spam/Antivirus--Built-in defenses against spam and phishing e-mail messages as well as new antivirus filtering and scanning capabilities help provide comprehensive protection.
• Organizationwide Policy Management--Easier and faster auditing, cross-mailbox search, mail flow rules for enforcing encryption and rights management (using Windows Rights Management Services), and routing policies.

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Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise CAL

Availability: Now

Value

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise CAL offers a comprehensive package that includes security services offerings, Unified Messaging, and Compliance functionality.

Key Benefits

• Hosted, Security-Enhanced E-Mail Filtering--Helps protect businesses' inbound and outbound e-mail messages from spam, viruses, and phishing in a managed, hosted solution.
• Unified Messaging--Single inbox for voice mail, e-mail, fax, and calendaring.
• Policy Compliance--Use journaling to enforce per-user policies for messaging content, storage, and retention. Enforce security policies around the ability to send messages or attachments to defined audiences.
• Enhanced On-Premise Antivirus/Anti-spam--Using Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server for the unique multiengine detection capability to provide a continuously updated, antivirus/anti-spam solution, resulting in a robust solution for messaging security.

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Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL

Availability: Now

Value

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides enterprise-scale capabilities to meet business-critical needs like managing content and business processes, simplifying how people find and share information across boundaries, and enabling better informed decisions.

Key Benefits

• Content Management--Out-of-the-box workflows initiate, track, and report common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection.
• Records Management--Record repository provides for the collecting, managing, and disposing of corporate records in a consistent and uniform manner based on the company's policies.
• Portal Site Management--Site Manager tools help personalize, deploy, and maintain portals using drag-and-drop capability.
• Search--Extensible and customizable search of enterprise content and people.
• Portals--Portal sites provide convenient starting points to connect your people to business-critical information, expertise, and applications.

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Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL

Availability: Now

Value

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL extends the value of Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL helps your business make better informed decisions through centralizing access to mission-critical information. The Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL also helps accelerate business processes and maintain control of your electronic forms environment.

Key Benefits

• Report Center--Broadly share business data through personal or shared dashboards that include Excel controls and key performance indicators.
• Business Data Catalog--Discover more information through the ability to index business data and access it through your portal and search.
• Excel Services--Secure, manage and control spreadsheets through a web browser. Integrate Excel as a part of your business intelligence infrastructure.
• PerformancePoint Services (New)--Create rich scorecards that convey company strategy that defines success across your organization as well as interactive dashboards with guided analytics for greater insight into the business, with improved visualizations and interactivity. Integrated administration and maintenance within SharePoint.
• Forms Server--Enable the storage and organization of rich, dynamic server-based forms to gather, share, reuse, and manage information.
• Fast Enterprise Search (New)--Get better answers, faster using conversational search experiences that understand your information. Amplify the impact of knowledge and expertise by building on a platform for social computing, collaboration, content management and business intelligence.

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System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 Configuration Management License

Availability: Now

Value

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (previously Systems Management Server) provides knowledge-driven management for today’s dynamic IT infrastructures. Its powerful capabilities enable you to assess, deploy, and update your clients, servers, and mobile devices across IT systems in physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments. With Configuration Manager 2007 organizations can ensure that IT systems comply with desired configuration states to improve systems’ availability, security, and performance network-wide.

Key Benefits

• Application Deployment--Deliver critical business productivity applications reliably and easily to users in the right place at the right time.
• Asset Management--Reduce software costs and stay compliant by understanding the installed application base and their usage.
• Security Patch Management--Improve security of the Windows environment through increased vulnerability awareness and reliable targeted delivery of updates.
• Mobility--Deliver enterprise management to the growing mobile workforce through industry standards independent of connection or location.
• Windows Management Services Integration--Reduce operational costs by fully utilizing the management capabilities built into the Windows platform.

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Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Standard CAL

Availability: Now

Value

Office Communications Server Standard CAL enables rich presence and secure Instant Messaging capabilities and application sharing for end-user information workers.

Key Benefits

• Enterprise performance--Improved scalability, security, compliance and manageability.
• Instantly find and communicate with people--Use rich presence information to discover the availability of your key stakeholders and instantly initiate real time communication.
• Federation--Establish trusted relationships between your organization and one or more external organizations, allowing users to initiate and share IM sessions.
• Enhanced Instant Messaging: Contextual information from Outlook and SharePoint increases the effectiveness of holding IM conversations.

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Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise CAL

Availability: Now

Value

Microsoft Office Communications Server Enterprise CAL offers a premium option that provides on-premise web conferencing, as well as multiparty audio/video conferencing.

Key Benefits

• Conferencing--Experience multi-party audio/video conferencing from within Microsoft Office Communicator.
• Meeting scheduling--Instantly establish ad-hoc meetings from a variety of Microsoft Office applications.
• Conduct online meetings--Use the power of the Live Meeting client to conduct conference meetings with participants inside and outside the organization with an on premise solution.
• VOIP capabilities: Software-powered VoIP that works with your existing messaging and telephony infrastructure and can adapt to your changing business needs.
• Call Management--Give users call management capabilities like call forwarding, hold, dynamic routing, and simultaneous ringing on all commonly used phones right from their desktop.

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Windows Rights Management Services

Availability: Now

Value

Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2003 is information protection technology that works with RMS-enabled applications to help safeguard digital information from unauthorized use-both online and offline, inside and outside of the firewall.

Key Benefits

• Safeguarding of Sensitive Information--Create centralized custom usage policy templates that determine whether users can open, modify, print, or forward files.
• Persistent Protection--Enforce an organization's security strategy and policies throughout a variety of Microsoft applications.
• Flexible, Customizable Information Protection--Tailor solutions to fit specific system requirements through flexible deployment options, from single-box deployments to globally distributed topology.

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System Center Operations Manager 2007 Client Monitoring

Availability: Now

Value

The System Center Operations Manager Client Operations Management License enables organizations to centrally monitor, report on, and manage up to tens of thousands of client systems so support teams can proactively identify high-impact client operating system, application, and hardware issues and eliminate their causes before they increase support costs and affect user productivity and satisfaction.

Key Benefits

• Help Lower Support Costs--Integrate and extend problem reporting and operations monitoring to client systems.
• Speed Up Desktop Troubleshooting--Enable desktop support administrators, operations, and IT management teams to more easily identify and resolve issues affecting users and accelerate problem resolution using the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office client knowledge.
• Help Reduce Costs--Perform preventive triaging of at-risk desktops before failures occur on a client application, operating system, or hardware.
• Compliance--Securely and efficiently supports compliance reporting.
• Deployment Flexibility--Optimizes the cost of client monitoring with flexible deployment options including agentless crash monitoring, collective health monitoring, and business-critical monitoring.
• Improve Service Levels and Visibility--Perform end-to-end service management of the entire IT infrastructure, including applications, operating systems, and hardware.

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Forefront Security Suite

• Forefront Client Security
• Forefront Security for Exchange Server 2007
• Forefront Security for SharePoint Server
• Forefront Security for Office Communications Server 2007
• Forefront Online Security for Exchange (Formally Exchange Hosted Filtering)

Value

Microsoft Forefront is a comprehensive line of business security products providing greater protection and control through integration with your existing IT infrastructure and through simplified deployment, management, and analysis.

Key Benefits

• Increased protection--Unified, multi-engine approach to securing client PCs as well as server applications and OS, provides robust, in-depth protection from known and unknown threats, including protection against virus, spyware, rootkit and spam.
• Microsoft Forefront Client Security--Helps provide unified malware protection for business desktops, laptops, and server operating systems that is easier to manage and control.
• Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint Server, and Forefront for Office Communications Server--Help protect your messaging, collaboration servers, and instant messaging from viruses, worms, spam, and inappropriate content.
• Forefont Online Security for Exchange (Formally Exchange Hosted Filtering)--A service offering that incorporates multiple filters to actively help protect businesses inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations.
• Policy Enforcement--Mechanisms ensure central enforcement of security policies as well as policies around the inappropriate inclusion or distribution of content throughout the organization.
• Simplified Security Management--Forefront reduces the number of management consoles needed to manage security across the organization.
• Increase Security Visibility--Forefront increases visibility into the security state of your network by providing a single view of the network, enabling better and more-informed management and threat mitigation.

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