Resources for Interoperability and Migration for Other Microsoft Products

This white paper, jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM, describes the issues around federated identity management and describes a comprehensive solution based on the Web services specifications outlined in the WS-Security roadmap and other related Web services specifications.

Windows Server System Reference Architecture Virtual Environments for Development and Test (WSSRA-VE) can help you create environments for interop and migration testing that emulate your production environment. This guide describes the architectural blueprint, planning considerations, deployment practices, and operational considerations for creating and supporting a virtualized instantiation of the WSSRA. It leverages the power of Virtual Server 2005 and automated deployment and configuration tools to minimize the physical infrastructure and logistical overhead necessary to deploy emulations of various data center services.

Resources to help you deploy, maintain, and support Host Integration Server.

Resources to help you simplify user authentication and management across diverse systems with MIIS.

This paper describes the approaches and technologies available for integrating identity stores across a heterogeneous environment. It also provides detailed implementation guidance for identity aggregation and synchronization between Microsoft Active Directory directory service forests, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1 (formerly iPlanet Directory Server), and Lotus Notes Release 5.0 using Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (MIIS 2003).

Find MOM connectors and management packs with this search tool, such as the HP Open-View connector that provides uni-directional and bi-directional connections between MOM and HP Open-View.

This guide helps you collect information about your application, define various states for your application, and create a management pack to monitor these states and to alert an operator about state changes.

This page is dedicated to providing you information for ensuring your Web services applications will work across different platforms and toolsets.

Explore the possibilities presented by a number of different strategies you can use to make .NET/Java Interoperability easier. These include using Web Services, Bridging Technologies or BizTalk Adapters.

Interoperability between BizTalk Server 2004 and BizTalk Server 2002 is supported for various messaging scenarios and file protocols, as well as for standard BizTalk Server features, such as reliable messaging, security, and BizTalk Server Web services.

Read about interoperability with Kerberos, a protocol implemented for a variety of systems and used to provide a single authentication service in a distributed network.

This white paper presents interoperability best practices and illustrates these approaches with a functional sample application. It shows how to link Microsoft .NET and J2EE, using Web services, runtime bridges, and asynchronous techniques.

Continue using traditional Active Server Pages, Component Object Model applications, and Microsoft Win32 DLLs, with the interoperability features of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Get resources for creating interoperable XML Web services.

In this February 2005 webcast Simon Guest shows 10 developer-focused tips, strategies, and recommendations to make the Web Services you write more interoperable with other platforms.

Get useful training from Microsoft and Midrange Alliance partners to help your legacy modernization project.

Series gurus Chris Peters and Brian Singleton pass on the essential knowledge you need to use iSeries Access or Express Access to integrate iSeries or AS/400 data with Microsoft Office applications. This indispensable book covers using ODBC to integrate iSeries with Microsoft Office and leveraging the iSeries Access data transfer function. The book also explains how to bring data from the iSeries to your PC by using Universal Data Access with OLE DB and ADO.NET.

Get details about Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Image Format Specification, available under a royalty-free license to third parties in an effort to foster innovation and further enhance interoperability, security, and operational efficiency for customers.

This document provides prescriptive guidance in using the BizTalk Server 2004 Migration Wizard to migrate a BizTalk Server 2002-based solution that includes orchestrations and messaging items.

Get information on how to upgrade to Commerce Server 2002 from Commerce Server 2000 or Site Server 3.0.

This document describes the process for migrating from Small Business Server 2000 or Windows 2000 Server to Windows Small Business Server 2003.

This document describes the process for migrating from Microsoft Small Business Server 4.5 or Windows NT Server 4.0 to Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003.

Find out how you can migrate from Intel LANDesk Management Suite 6.4 to Systems Management Server 2.0.

Find out how you can migrate from HP Desktop Administrator to Systems Management Server 2.0.

Find articles to help you migrate to ASP.NET from JSP, ASP, and PHP.