Looking for ways to reduce your overall cost of development as you work with your customers to find solutions for serious-sounding concerns like infrastructure management, virtualization, communications and collaboration, security, and regulatory compliance?  Check out our Solutions Accelerator portal page, which is chock-full of resources--free, tested guides and toolkits that can help you help your customers assess readiness, secure, deploy, and operate Microsoft products like Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and SharePoint.  These "how-to" guides contain best practices for working with key Microsoft products.

New to the page is the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 (download it at https://partner.microsoft.com/US/salesmarketingsection/40059263).  This is the new version of the very popular Business Desktop Deployment 2007 toolkit, and in it you'll find updates to support Windows Vista SP1, 2007 Office, and Windows Server 2008.

Want to stay hip and cool and on top of all things related to the Solutions Accelerators?  Check out the blog about them at http://solutionaccelerators.spaces.live.com/!

Cheers,

Diane Golshan - Sr. Marketing Manager, US Partner Group