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Solution Accelerators from Microsoft are free, authoritative resources to proactively plan, integrate, and operate your systems. Designed in collaboration with industry experts and tested in real customer environments, Solution Accelerators give you prescriptive guidance and automation to achieve high-performance, cross-product IT infrastructure from both new and existing systems without reinventing the wheel. These resources focus on key concerns for companies of all sizes such as infrastructure and management, communication and collaboration, and security and compliance. Solution Accelerators serve the complex and evolving needs of your organization today and into the future.
The Windows Server 2008 Suite of Solution Accelerators includes:
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Solution Accelerator is an integrated platform with tools and guidance that make it easier for you to assess your current IT infrastructure and determine the right Microsoft technologies for your IT needs. It offers easy inventory, powerful assessment, and actionable recommendations for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server Hyper-V, Virtual Server 2005 R2, Terminal Services, SoftGrid, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Vista, and 2007 Microsoft Office.
The Infrastructure Planning & Design guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. This series aims to clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, each addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario. These guides compliment product documentation by exposing and focusing on infrastructure design options. The series includes: Series Overview, Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology, SoftGrid, Hyper-V, WDS, AD DS, and Terminal Services.
Microsoft Deployment decreases the time and cost of client and server deployments through unifying the tools and processes into a common console and collection of guidance. Microsoft Deployment supports Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, with specific guidance, tools, and templates for deploying the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and general guidance and tools for deploying other applications.
The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide is designed to further enhance the security of the servers in your organization by taking full advantage of the new and improved security technologies and features in Windows Server 2008. Use the guidance to deploy your security baseline quickly and reliably, harden your server workloads, and evaluate security setting recommendations to meet the requirements of your environment.
