The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations—including Windows 7, Office 2010 and 365, Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, Windows Azure, and Microsoft Private...

System Center 2012 plus optional Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 download http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-nl/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx The Microsoft private cloud evaluation includes: System Center 2012 System Center 2012 Unified Installer is a utility designed to perform new, clean installations...

System Center 2012 Server Management Licensing *VMs are equivalent to managed operating system environments (OSEs). System Center 2012 Client Management Licensing http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/default.aspx For more information download the System Center...

System Center Advisor is a cloud service that enables you to assess your server configuration and proactively avoid problems, while helping support staff to resolve issues faster by accessing current and historical configuration data; all with the security features that meet your needs. Additionally...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or...

Plan for private cloud and public cloud platforms, identify Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V migration opportunities Available for free download. first register for the MAP 6.0 Beta Review Program Solution Accelerators Downloads http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/bb819696...

The Remote Desktop Services Connector for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (RDS Connector for VMM) enables Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 to use the virtual machine placement capabilities of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 for personal virtual desktops and...

iSCSI Initiator enables you to connect a host computer that is running Windows® 7 or Windows Server® 2008 R2 to an external iSCSI-based storage array through an Ethernet network adapter. You can use Microsoft iSCSI Initiator in your existing network infrastructure to enable block-based storage...

This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate and take corrective action, if necessary. The management pack helps to simplify the administrative environment by providing a single console for the administrator...

The “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” Jump Start is specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology pros. This cutting-edge course features expert instruction and real-world demonstrations of Hyper-V, many components of the System Center Suite, including...

This whitepaper demonstrates why organizations should choose Microsoft® Hyper-V™ as their hypervisor when designing and implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=f0533021-ca5a-4330-b839-1efedad14479

Microsoft IT created a workflow process that optimizes its implementation of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 management packs into its enterprise monitoring service. The iterative process analyzes and tunes the desired alerts, thresholds, and troubleshooting information for a particular...

Many organizations today rely on some degree of virtualization. Whether it is a few virtual machines running on a single physical computer or a whole server farm across multiple root servers, virtualization optimizes investment in hardware and network infrastructure by:• Increasing the utilization...

Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway), formerly Terminal Services Gateway (TS Gateway), in the Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating system, provides technologies that enable authorized remote users to connect to resources on an internal corporate or private network, from any Internet-connected device...

The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 provides storage (disks) over a TCP/IP network. It turns a computer running Windows Server into a storage device which provides shared block storage. You can use Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 to perform a variety of storage-related tasks, including the following...

System Center Advisor ( http://www.systemcenteradvisor.com ) is an online service that analyzes installations of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (and later versions) and Windows Server 2008 (and later versions). Advisor collects data from your installations, analyzes it, and generates alerts that identify...

The Windows Server Virtualization Calculators provide two ways to estimate the number and cost of Windows Server Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and Datacenter Edition licenses needed for your virtualization scenarios to help you determine the most cost-effective edition of Windows Server. ...

Microsoft RemoteFX delivers a rich user experience for session-based and virtual desktops to a broad range of client devices. This white paper is intended as a guide for capacity planning of Microsoft RemoteFX in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. It describes the most relevant factors that influence...

Accelerate Your Migration to Hyper-V Download the MAP Toolkit MAP quickly gives you the answers you need for Hyper-V implementation. Take inventory of your current heterogeneous server environment (including Windows Server and Linux operating systems running in a virtual environment), determine...

Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 is built on the Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating system to provide a platform for network-attached storage appliances. It is optimized to deliver a better file serving experience. The Windows® Storage Server product family provides advanced storage solutions for...

Infrastructure Planning and Design guides share a common structure, including: Definition of the technical decision flow through the planning process. Listing of decisions to be made and the commonly available options and considerations. Relating the decisions and options to the business...

This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. It focuses on architecture, snapshots, live migration, virtual networking, storage, RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. You can use this poster in conjunction with the previously published...

What is Dynamic Memory? Dynamic Memory is a new feature that lets Hyper-V balance memory automatically among running virtual machines. This feature adjusts the amount of memory available to the virtual machines in response to the needs of the virtual machine, based on values that you specify. Dynamic...

The Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is a server management tool that is available in Windows Server 2008 R2. BPA reports best practice violations to the administrator after BPA scans the roles that are installed on Windows Server 2008 R2. Administrators can filter out unnecessary information or exclude...

Performance tuning guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2. These are published in the form of a whitepaper up at: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/Perf_tun_srv-R2.mspx Included in this whitepaper are guidelines around tuning the OS for the following workloads: • Choosing...