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July 2009
| | | 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. | | Stay in step with Solution Accelerators | | What's new with Solution Accelerators? | | | Partner Power: Discover the Value Solution Accelerators Can Bring to Your Business! | | | We're back from an amazing and energetic week at the 2009 Worldwide Partner Conference, and all we can say is -- wow! To those of you who were able to attend, thank you for sharing you stories, your needs, and your enthusiasm. To those who weren't in New Orleans this year, read on for conference highlights, and we hope to see you next year. This year's buzz is no secret; Partners from all over the world are excited for the opportunity to move their customers to Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2. The Solution Accelerators team shares your excitement, and we have the tools -- including Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 -- to get you ahead in your Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 customer engagements. In the spirit of WPC, this month's issue is all about you, our valued Partners. Keep reading for features, tips, and resources to keep you ahead of the competition. |
Fast Facts: Partners Are Talking About Solution Accelerators
We sat down with WPC attendees who use Solution Accelerators in their customer engagements. In addition to gauging their overall satisfaction with Solution Accelerators, we also wanted to know which features or other improvements might boost their satisfaction level. The results were clear: Partners want more technical support and guidance!  We'd like to hear from you as well! Please tell us what you think. We heard from WPC attendees, and now we'd like to hear from you. Let us know which additional features or improvements (listed in the table above) might boost your satisfaction with Solution Accelerators. Rank your responses from 1 to 3, 1 being Most Important, 2 being Somewhat Important, and 3 being Least Important. Please e-mail your thoughts to JStuart@microsoft.com.
Getting Down to Business: Partners in Action
Learn More: Exclusive Partner Webcasts Learn how Solution Accelerators can help you win more customer engagements and solve your customers' toughest IT problems. With these on-demand webcasts you can hear directly from the Solution Accelerators team how these no-cost guides and automated toolkits can help you win more business, and successfully plan, deliver, and operate IT solutions for your customers. Check out the Solution Accelerators Webcast Series. Learn How Top Microsoft Partners Are Using Solution Accelerators to Grow Their Business . Dimension Data, former Systems Management Partner of the Year, specializes in providing IT services and solutions that help clients plan, build, support, and manage their IT infrastructures. For the last four years, Dimension Data has used Solution Accelerators like Business Desktop Deployment, now Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to enable zero touch desktop deployment solutions. "[Solution Accelerators] allow us to better differentiate ourselves from the competition while at the same time showing the Microsoft field teams that we remain a cutting edge partner that they should engage to best serve their clients," says Dimension Data's Global VP for Microsoft Solutions, Curt Wheadon. "Solution Accelerators have helped us to both increase top-line revenues by having better solutions to deliver to our clients, as well as increasing our bottom line profits by both lowering our R&D costs and increasing project profitability by making our consultants more efficient in delivering high quality solutions," Wheadon continues. To learn more about how Dimension Data is using Solution Accelerators to deploy their Dynamic Desktop Solution, visit their case study site. . Getronics is a leading global systems integrator and Microsoft Gold Partner that utilizes Solution Accelerators to win more business and reduce customer costs. They specialize in zero-touch delivery of Microsoft software and operating systems using Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP), Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), and other Solution Accelerators, and was last year's Microsoft Windows Desktop Partner of the Year. "Solution Accelerators allow us to deploy Windows at a much lower cost. That allows us to pass on the savings to our customers," says Lee Nicholls, Getronics' Global Solutions Director. "Customers are so pleased at the value they're receiving that they're coming back for more...It's made a huge difference in our business." To learn more about how Getronics uses Solution Accelerators to win more engagements, watch this brief video. . Pultorak & Associates help enterprise IT organizations and the providers who serve them get better results from IT services through consulting, training, and publications. They have embraced Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF), and offer services ranging from service management consulting and training to strategic IT sourcing and content development. Visit Pultorak & Associates' Web site to learn more about how they're helping clients tackle IT service management issues. If you're using Solution Accelerators in your customer engagements, we'd like to showcase your work! To share your story, please e-mail SATpart@microsoft.com. Thank you to our valued Partners for your passion for and your commitment to Microsoft and Solution Accelerators. We appreciate your engagement, and we'll continue providing you with free tools and guidance to build your business.
Help Us Build Better Solution Accelerators For You
Sign-Up for the New Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Security Baselines Beta! Help your customers meet their business-critical needs and elevate the security of Microsoft products with these new security baselines for Windows 7, BitLocker, and Internet Explorer 8. This Beta program ends August 17. Invite your customers to join the Security Baselines Beta. Existing members, bookmark this link.
| Drive Sales with these Newly Released Solution Accelerators
| | | | | Easily conduct network-wide readiness pre-sales assessments for migration to Microsoft technologies from servers, to desktops and virtualization with the newly released Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0. Now with the ability to co-brand and customize the user interface and proposal templates with your own marketing messages and logos, Microsoft Assessment and Planning 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-V and more.
Download now and accelerate pre-sales planning for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2! | | | Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios help simplify desktop user requirements gathering and automate desktop technology selection, providing your customers with the IT manageability you require, while giving users the varying levels of power and flexibility they need. Now updated to reflect functionalities available in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2!
Download today! | | | The Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 helps you track mission-critical application performance & availability in near real time -- so you can help customers head off problems before they occur.
Learn more about Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. | |  | | | IT pros are faced daily with challenges that require actionable results. We think they'd benefit from bite-sized solutions to those real-life IT problems. Allow us to introduce just such an answer -- the MOF Action Plan- Redistributing the Workload. Invite your customers to download the MOF Action Plan now and they'll get concise, practical guidance addressing the challenge of redistributing the workload due to staffing cuts.
Establish yourself as a valuable consultant, and invite your customers to download the MOF Action Plan- Redistributing the Workload. | | | Also released and announced at WPC 2009, these updated guides reflect new features and capabilities available in Windows Server 2008 R2, and outline the critical design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation. Updated guides include Active Directory Domain Services, Internet Information Services 7.5, File Services, and Print Services.
Download the guides individually, or the entire IPD Guide Series today and streamline your design processes for Windows Server 2008 R2! | | | Enable your customers to take advantage of their existing SCCM infrastructure to meet the FDCC compliance mandate. Encourage them to download the System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP.
Recommend these extensions to your System Center Configuration Manager customers during your upcoming sales engagements. | | |
Breaking News! | | | "It's a special year when we get a chance to do a Windows release. You know, at the heart of the company, the one thing that really knits everything together...is Windows." | | | | Steve Ballmer
Chief Executive Officer
Microsoft Corporation | | | It's official: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM code will be available next month. What does that mean for you? It's time to start taking advantage of Solution Accelerators to help you prepare your customers to migrate to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. . Visit the Windows Desktop Solution Accelerators page.  . Check out the Windows Server Solution Accelerators page. 
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