Windows Server System Reference Architecture empowers systems integrators and IT professionals with validated architectural guidance that establishes the Microsoft platform as the most trustworthy platform for business computing. The reference architecture enables best practice-based design of an IT infrastructure, which drives standardization across the platform by applying sound architectural principles around security, manageability and other factors to ensure a consistent approach to the definition of IT services. For each IT service covered within the reference architecture, a comprehensive blueprint, articulating design options, helps ensure the most appropriate design is realized for a particular scenario. The complementary implementation guidance then lays out the planning, building, and testing processes that were followed to prove the architecture for a generic, fictitious organization. All the resultant guidance for this whole process is provided with the reference architectureeven the deployment automation, test cases, policies, and hardware configuration files are included in a deployment kit.
