Solution Accelerators Partner Newsletter, September 2009

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September 2009 New Releases Get Started with These 10 Free Tools! New Beta Release Stay Informed and Engaged Featured Case Studies Coming Soon Exclusive Microsoft Partner opportunity! Microsoft is building a new Security Compliance Manager that will help your customers better manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft® technologies. Please contact the Security team if you're interested in collaborating to help build this offering. For more on related offerings, read about the Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series in this issue's list of featured tools, or check out planned updates to the series in the "Coming Soon" section. Security and Compliance resources Take advantage of these resources to help customers meet security and compliance needs. Security and Compliance Solution Accelerators Compliance Management Forum Security Team Blog 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 organizations, we'd like to feature you in a case study. Tell us your story. 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. 10 Tools to Help Harden IT Security and Strengthen Your Compliance Infrastructure Are your customers worried about keeping their IT systems safe from attack? Are they overwhelmed by complex compliance objectives and auditor expectations? Using Microsoft's Solution Accelerators, you can help your customers build an effective security and compliance infrastructure, helping to keep systems safer and stronger. Learn more about Security and Compliance Solution Accelerators. New Releases Automate Desktop and Server Deployment with MDT 2010 Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 enables efficient and cost effective deployment of Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2. Drive sales by demonstrating the new features designed to simplify deployment. Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit for IBM System x and BladeCenter Products Now customized for IBM, the MAP Toolkit enables stronger brand presence for IBM server products and offers more specific recommendations for Hyper-V virtualization together with IBM System x and BladeCenter servers. Interested in customizing the MAP Toolkit? Get the co-branding instructions. Please contact the MAP team for questions. Get Started with These 10 Free Tools! 1. Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series. The series provides organizations with an end-to-end solution to help plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of 2007 Microsoft Office applications and Windows operating systems. Download the Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series. 2. Malware Removal Starter Kit. This kit provides free, tested guidance to help combat malware attacks and restore infected systems so that users can safely get back to work. Download the Malware Removal Starter Kit. 3. MAP for Desktop Security Assessment and Forefront Client Security Readiness. Learn how to assess whether your desktops are vulnerable to viruses and spyware with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit. This tool also assesses PC readiness for Forefront Client Security and Network Access Protection (NAP). Download MAP for Desktop Security Assessment and Forefront Client Security Readiness. 4. IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide. This guide provides a proactive, easy-to-understand approach to protecting assets and sensitive information against increasing threats to computing environments. Download the IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide. 5. Hyper-V Security Guide. This guide provides IT pros with guidance, instructions, and recommendations to address key security concerns about server virtualization. It also helps elevate the security of virtualized Windows Server environments to meet business needs. Download the Hyper-V Security Guide. 6. IT Compliance Management Guide. This guide can help shift GRC efforts from people to technology, efficiently educating users on how an IT management framework can be used to implement controls to address GRC requirements. Download the IT Compliance Management Guide. 7. Security Risk Management Guide. This technology-agnostic solution helps organizations of all types plan, build, and maintain a successful security risk-management program. The guide references many industry-accepted standards for managing security risk and incorporates real-world experiences from Microsoft IT, customers, and partners. Learn more. Download the Security Risk Management Guide. 8. Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0. MOF addresses how to establish IT governance, comply with GRC directives, and assess, monitor, and control risk. MOF discusses guidelines and principles for GRC throughout the IT service lifecycle. Learn more. Download Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0. 9. System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP. Take advantage of existing Configuration Manager infrastructures. These extensions for SCAP allow organizations to use Configuration Manager 2007 to scan computers for compliance with the FDCC mandate. Learn more. Download System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP. 10. Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Active Directory. Customers can take advantage of best practices and real-world assistance when designing Active Directory® infrastructure with this guide, now updated for Windows Server 2008 R2. Learn more. Download the Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Active Directory. New Beta Release Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for DirectAccess This IPD guide provides actionable guidance for designing a DirectAccess infrastructure. The guide's easy-to-follow, four-step process gives a straightforward explanation of the infrastructure required to connect clients from the Internet to resources on the corporate network, whether or not the organization has begun deploying IPv6. Join the Beta program today! Members, please bookmark this link. Stay Informed and Engaged Featured Forum: Compliance Management Forum Encourage customers to join in the conversation on the Compliance Management Forum. They can take part in discussions and collaborate on compliance management issues related to governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), interact with the Microsoft compliance team, and provide feedback on Beta review programs. Featured Blog: Security Team Blog Do your customers want the latest Security and Compliance news straight from the experts? They'll hear it here first. Visit the Solution Accelerators Security Team Blog for the latest and greatest on new releases, Beta programs, and more! Featured Case Studies Don't just take our word for it: These case studies from Eiden Systems, Continental Airlines, and Blue Ridge Networks speak for themselves. Explore how Eiden Systems, a defense supply system, enhanced IT security and slashed deployment time. Learn how Continental Airlines optimized its security and streamlined application management. Discover how the IT security provider, Blue Ridge Networks, delivers industry-leading comprehensive endpoint protection solutions. Coming Soon New Security Baselines for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Available Soon! Updates to the Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series will be available this fall. The series has been enhanced to include the release of new security baselines for Windows 7 and Windows Internet Explorer® 8. To be notified of this and other releases from the Security Solution Accelerators team, subscribe to the news feed on their home page. © Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft, Active Directory, Forefront, Hyper-V, Internet Explorer, Windows, and Windows Server 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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