Ways Microsoft can help streamline your IT processes
Learn how a managed operating environment can save network administrators time
Setting up a managed operating environment in your school district can greatly speed up and simplify network administration. A Microsoft solution that automates common networking tasks, eases application deployment, and strips the complexity from running a connected learning environment can shave countless hours off your workload—freeing you to spend more time improving your district's information technology (IT) capabilities.
Delivers applications to an entire network on demand through a virtual session that eliminates the need to install the software on each personal computer.
Productivity applications such as the 2007 Microsoft Office system and education-specific programs can follow users anywhere they go on the network.
This best-practice guide and toolkit automates the deployment of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, significantly reducing the time, effort, and costs involved.
With the help of this deployment optimization tool, you can update software on faculty, classroom, and lab computers from a central location without having to involve district staff.
System Center is a family of leading IT management solutions that helps you proactively plan, deploy, manage, and optimize your IT environment.
Get more control over the systems and applications your district already uses, from products such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, and the Microsoft Office system to third-party management tools.
MOM 2005 helps reduce the complexity associated with managing today's IT infrastructure environment and lowering the cost of operations.
Save time by monitoring services and security incidents on multiple machines in multiple locations throughout your school district—all from the central location of your choosing.
DPM is the new standard for Windows backup and recovery—delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers using seamlessly integrated disk and tape media.
DPM not only protects data, it also provides snapshots of critical data, such as e-mail addresses and students' home folder shares, enabling teachers and students to call up the projects they're working on no matter where they go.
Microsoft Forefront is a family of interoperable security products.
With the Microsoft Forefront family of interoperable security products, you get heightened protection over your district's IT infrastructure. For example, Forefront products ensure teachers and district administrators can communicate with parents and colleagues without interruption. It also offers firewall protection to keep intruders out and prevent students from visiting social networking sites during school hours.
Windows Defender is a free program that uses automatic definition updates provided by Microsoft analysts to help detect and remove new Internet security threats as they are identified.
Windows Defender helps protect the machines on your network from spyware, spam, and malware—and all the pop-ups, performance hits, and security threats that come with them.
* Note: Windows Defender is available for both Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista. Windows Defender and its associated definition updates are also available on an ongoing basis as free stand-alone downloads for customers using Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 who validate their software through the Windows Genuine Advantage program.
