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June 2009 Summer Sizzle! New Summer Releases Beta Releases Solution Accelerators for New Microsoft Technologies Featured Case Studies Get visibility for your recent successes in customer engagements If you have helped customers use Solution Accelerators to speed the adoption of Microsoft technologies, improve efficiency, or lower costs in their enterprise IT organization, we'd like to feature you in a case study. Tell us your story. Calling all Microsoft Partners! If you're going to the Worldwide Partner Conference this July, visit the Solution Accelerators booths in the Core IO and Client Pavilions. Learn more about WPC. Stay in step with Solution Accelerators Check out Solution Accelerators for Partners. Tell us what you think Contact us with your questions, comments, and stories. What's new with Solution Accelerators? Subscribe to our news feed. Summer Sizzle Take advantage of the long summer days with Solution Accelerators! Summer is upon us: school's out, the sun is hot, and the days are long, but it will all be over in the blink of an eye. Don't let your entire summer slip away; take advantage of the extra daylight and use Solution Accelerators to get ahead of the competition and boost revenues! From our many releases and Beta programs to our featured case studies, this new material is like summer school, minus the homework and strict teachers. So while the other guy is idling away the summer, let us give you the tools and the knowledge to make you better at the things you do best. Keep reading for the first look at our hot summer updates -- all designed to give you the edge you need to win more sales and satisfy your customers. New Summer Releases The IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide Now Available for Download Want to help protect customers from the rising tide of cyber-attacks on their computers and networks? This free guide provides an easy-to-understand method to develop threat models that help prioritize key investments in IT infrastructure security. . Learn more about the IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide. . Download the IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide. Plan the Right Desktop Infrastructure Technology for Your Customer's Business Needs Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios help simplify desktop user requirements gathering and automate desktop technology selection, providing your customers the IT manageability they require, while giving users the varying levels of power and flexibility they need. This new version (v1.1) includes new features of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 such as BranchCache, DirectAccess, BitLockerToGo, and AppBlocker. . Learn more about Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios. . Download Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios v1.1. Get Informed: Maximize Your Customers' Adoption of the Leading Service Management Frameworks Are your customers turning to you for answers when trying to compare the leading service management frameworks? The MOF team has released a new series of framework comparison companion guides that will help organizations understand how MOF aligns with and compares to the leading service management and governance frameworks. The information outlined in these guides will enable users to understand the characteristics and alignment of ITIL and MOF, meet ISO/IEC 20000 requirements, and understand the vital role MOF plays in integrating GRC capabilities into reliable, high-quality daily IT operations. . Learn more about Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0. . Download the framework comparison companion guides: Cross Reference ITIL® V3 and MOF 4.0 MOF to COBIT/Val IT Comparison and Cross-Implementation Guide Using MOF for ISO/IEC 20000 Help Customers Keep their Mission-Critical, Line-of-Business Applications Up and Running! Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 automatically displays organization-wide application or system availability and performance in near-real time. Using the dashboard, you can help customers measure and report on performance trends, and head off problems before they occur. The dashboard also lets you easily create role-specific dashboards to support different departments, like HR, Finance, or Operations. . Learn More about SLD 2.0. . Download SLD 2.0. Want more details about Operations Manager 2007 R2? Check out the System Center Team Blog. Keep Offline Virtualized Servers Safe from Attack! Are your customers concerned with keeping their offline virtualized machines safe from attack and in step with new security policies? The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool has free, tested guidance and automated tools to help them get the job done quickly and reliably. . Learn More about OVMST 2.0.1. . Download OVMST 2.0.1. Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for SharePoint Online Considering an online solution for your customers' collaboration services? The SharePoint Online Evaluating Software-plus-Services guide provides a clear comparison of SharePoint collaboration technologies across on-premises, standard hosting, and dedicated hosting scenarios. . Learn more about the Infrastructure Planning and Design for SharePoint Online. . Download the IPD Guide for SharePoint Online Services. Beta Releases Thinking of Deploying Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2? Enable customers to gain a strategic competitive advantage by reducing deployment costs using the latest deployment toolkit for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 deployment projects. The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Beta 2 provides a common console with comprehensive tools and guidance needed to manage deployment projects. New features include flexible driver management, optimized user interface workflow, and Windows PowerShellT. Join the MDT Beta 2 program today. Already a member? Bookmark this link to get the latest project details. Accelerate Your Pre-Sales and Migration Planning for the Latest Microsoft Products and Infrastructure Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 4.0 provides an integrated tool that makes it easier to conduct network-wide readiness pre-sales assessments for migration to Microsoft technologies from servers, to desktops, and to virtualization. Now with the ability to co-brand and customize the user interface and proposal templates with your own marketing messages and logos, MAP Toolkit 4.0 gives the adaptive guidance needed to simplify the planning and deployment of your IT projects for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-VT, and more. (Live ID and registration required.) Download the MAP 4.0 Beta. New Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Security Baselines Beta Opening Soon! Does your customers waste valuable resources on security issues? Help them meet their business-critical needs and elevate the security of Microsoft products with these new security baselines for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8.0. This Beta launches mid-July 2009. Sign-up now to receive notification updates, to ensure you get the first look at this new release. Members, bookmark this link. Solution Accelerators for New Microsoft Technologies Coming Soon: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 We're getting ready for the upcoming Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 launches. Don't be caught unprepared -- take advantage of the summer and use Solution Accelerators' tested guidance and automated tools for every stage of your customers' migration to these latest operating systems. Want to learn more? Visit the Windows Desktop Solution Accelerators page. Check out the Windows Server Solution Accelerators page. Featured Case Studies Want Enhanced Security? Albemarle County Has It Thanks to Solution Accelerators Virginia's Albemarle County took advantage of Solution Accelerators to enhance its security and optimize its ability to share information with citizens. "The IT Compliance Management Guide and the Security Compliance Management Toolkit provide excellent information on how to conduct your own security audits to identify weaknesses in your system, and provides prescriptive guidance for resolving those weaknesses," says Mike Culp, the county's Information Technology Director. Check out this new case study to learn how you can use Solution Accelerators to enhance your customers' security. Costco Uses Virtualization and Solution Accelerators to Save Space, Reduce Costs, and Increase IT Agility Costco Wholesale Corporation is a major international wholesale distributor with revenues approaching US $70 billion. Costco began using virtualization technology in 2006 and has expanded its investment to include Windows Server 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. With the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Solution Accelerator, Costco's IT department was able to discover servers that were running at only five percent utilization, making them good candidates for consolidation. Find out how Costco Corporation deployed Hyper-V using Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit. © Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft, BitLocker, SharePoint, Windows, Windows Server, and Windows Vista are trademarks of the Microsoft Group of companies. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. To cancel your subscription to this newsletter, reply to this message with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the Subject line. You can also unsubscribe at the Microsoft.com Web site. You can manage all your Microsoft.com communication preferences at this site. Legal Information. 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