SCM 2 provides ready-to-deploy policies and DCM configuration packs based on Microsoft Security Guide recommendations and industry best practices, allowing you to easily manage configuration drift, and address compliance requirements for Windows operating systems and Microsoft applications. Download...

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5 Beta Beta review program now open! Join the MAP Toolkit 6.5 beta program   Simplify your cloud migration planning with MAP 6.5 Beta The journey to the cloud is now smoother than ever with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5 Beta....

Learn how to use Microsoft Security Compliance Manager as an end-to-end solution as you plan, deploy, and monitor the security baselines of Windows 7 in your customers' environment. New features in Security Compliance Manager can reduce the time you help customers manage the security and compliance process...

  If you missed this live webcast it is now available on-demand: TechNet Webcast: Getting Started with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (Level 200) Learn how to quickly and cost effectively deploy Windows 7. Through a targeted demo and Q&A with the experts, see how Microsoft Deployment Toolkit...

Join me on Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time and learn how to use Microsoft Security Compliance Manager as an end-to-end solution as you plan, deploy, and monitor the security baselines of Windows 7 in your customers' environment. New features in Security Compliance Manager can...

Join me on Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time to learn how to quickly and cost effectively deploy Windows 7. Through a targeted demo and Q&A with the experts, see how Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) can ease your deployment process by updating Deployment Workbench, a tool...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations and virtualization without the use of any software agents. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) is an agentless...

  The Microsoft Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce the release of new resources that you can use in combination with the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager tool: the Windows Server 2008 R2 Security Baseline and the Office 2010 Security Baseline, and setting packs for Windows 7...

Migration planning made easier with MAP Toolkit 5.5 Beta. Simplify planning for upgrade or migration to the latest Microsoft products and technologies with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.5 Beta. This multifaceted tool is now even better—with assessment for easier migration to Windows...

    If you’re doing Windows 7 deployments with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 and you want to do some customizations to the deployment wizard, here is a great tool to simplify the task of “…editing the wizard XML manifest files used by the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.” http://mdtwizardeditor...

The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce its latest Beta release—the Security Baselines for Windows Server 2008 R2. We’re interested in hearing your thoughts and feedback. Join the Security Baselines Beta. The best-practice guidance and security settings provided by the new Security Baselines...

  The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. This Solution Accelerator performs an inventory of heterogeneous...

  Hardening operating systems and applications, implementing security settings, and enforcing compliance standards can be resource intensive—but it doesn’t have to be. Take advantage of a free new tool from the Microsoft security experts on the Solution Accelerators team. The Security Compliance...

If you’re in the business of deploying Windows you’ll be pleased to know that the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 has been released!!!   Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is the newest version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a Solution Accelerator for operating system and application deployment...

Download the newly released Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 and see how you can use this planning tool for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 migration and virtualization projects. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless toolkit that finds computers on a network...

What Is This Guide? The IT Compliance Management Guide is a Solution Accelerator that can save you time and money by shifting your governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) efforts from people to technology. Using the configuration guidance can help you efficiently address your organization’s GRC objectives...

Are You Deploying System Center Configuration Manager? If you are, then you'll find this NEW Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guide for Configuration Manager will be an invaluable resource. The guide enables you to quickly select which features of Configuration Manager you need in order to...