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January 2010 Join a Beta Review Program Download New Solution Accelerators Take Advantage of Additional Resources You spoke, we listened. Thanks for your feedback on the Solution Accelerators newsletter. For the next few months, we'll be experimenting with the structure and content of this publication to better incorporate your comments. Stay tuned, and continue to tell us what you think! Solution Accelerators for the New Year Our 2010 resolution: Continue providing Microsoft Partners with free tools to help lower costs and build your business! Join a Beta Review Program Opening soon: Beta review program for new Security Compliance Manager! This new tool provides centralized security baseline management features, a security settings database, customization capabilities, and security baseline export flexibility to accelerate an organization's ability to efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies. Join the Security Compliance Manager Beta, and help the security team build this offering to best meet the needs of you and your customers. The beta will launch in early February 2010; participants will be notified via e-mail when the materials are available. Existing members, bookmark this link. Provide feedback and influence the development of MOF Management Reviews. These resources will enable you to help your customers ensure that their IT services are on track to deliver expected business value. The first management reviews in the series include Portfolio, Release Readiness, and Operational Health. Join the MOF Beta, and use this opportunity to influence the development of MOF Management Reviews. Already a member? Bookmark this link to preview the beta release. Download New Solution Accelerators Enable successful Forefront UAG implementation with the new Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guide. The newly released IPD guide for Forefront Unified Access Gateway (Forefront UAG) takes you through the logical three-step planning and design process of selecting the Forefront UAG features required, determining the number of instances, and designing the infrastructure. Download this key guidance, and help your customers successfully implement Forefront UAG. Get the most from Microsoft technologies with MOF Reliability Workbooks. These resources provide the knowledge necessary to keep technologies running smoothly so you can deliver the services your customers expect. The first workbooks in the series address Microsoft Active Directory, System Center Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager, Hyper-V, and Windows Server 2008 R2. Download the MOF Reliability Workbooks, and help your customers start getting the most from their technologies. New release of Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (OVMST) 2.1 creates big buzz in December! We're seeing a huge uptake for this Solution Accelerator, which helps you safely update customers' offline virtual machines without introducing vulnerabilities into their IT infrastructure. The new version supports the R2 wave! Get all the info, and download OVMST 2.1 here. Take Advantage of Additional Resources 40,000 IT pros have viewed these short "how-to" videos about Service Level Dashboard! See for yourself how this free, fully-supported Solution Accelerator can help you keep mission-critical applications up and running at peak performance. View the SLD overview; How to install SLD; and How to configure SLD. You can also download the dashboard for free! © Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft, Active Directory, Hyper-V, 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. This newsletter was sent by the Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, Washington, USA 98052 Sign up for other newsletters | Unsubscribe | Update your profile © 2007 Microsoft Corporation Terms of Use | Trademarks | Privacy Statement