Thank you everyone for attending today’s session Top 5 Free Desktop Deployment and Planning Tools for Every IT Professional. I hope it was a great experience to everyone. Here are the resources from my session.

SESSION RESOURCES - TechNet Library

Microsoft Solution Accelerators
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/bb545941

Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) Version 5.6
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722055(WS.10).aspx

Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349343(WS.10).aspx

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977556.aspx

Product Activation Using Volume Activation Management Tool 2.0
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff686878.aspx

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee376932.aspx

DOWNLOAD TOOLS

The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5753

The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) Supplement for Windows® 7 SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5188

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=7826

Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=7352

Microsoft Application Verifier
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c4a25ab9-649d-4a1b-b4a7-c9d8b095df18&DisplayLang=en 

Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 2.0
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11936

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&=tm&id=25175

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=217606

THANK YOU & HAVE A GREAT VTD.

System Center Service Manager 2012 beta provides flexible self-service experiences and standardized datacenter processes that can help you integrate people, workflows, and knowledge across enterprise infrastructure and applications.

Overview

Download additional System Center 2012 products with our single download experience.
System Center Service Manager 2012 beta helps standardize service delivery across your organization by:

• Enabling IT to deliver flexible self-service experiences so application owners can request private cloud capacity to deploy services.
• Integrating people, processes, and information across enterprise infrastructure and applications.
• Standardizing datacenter processes with workflows designed around industry best practices.

Benefits
Enables Self-Service for Application Owners and End-Users
Service Manager 2012 offers a customizable Service Catalog that provides you with access to standardized service offerings spanning applications and infrastructure. Through an integrated System Center Cloud Services Process Pack (coming soon), Service Manager 2012 empowers you with a self-service experience to request private cloud infrastructure capacity as appropriate to your business needs. Service Manager 2012 also offers automated approval workflows at the back-end to fulfill these resulting service requests (including VM requests) in a standardized manner. Finally, Service Manager 2012 offers you easy to use business and operational reporting capabilities through a data-warehouse that aggregates multiple data sources in your enterprise (including System Center, Active Directory, and SAP).
Integrates People, Processes, and Information Across Enterprise Infrastructure and Applications Service Manager 2012 offers an easy-to-setup Configuration Management Database (CMDB) that standardizes the capture of relationships across infrastructure and applications, and helps to facilitate continued organizational compliance when changes occur. Service Manager 2012 offers two new connectors for System Center Orchestrator 2012 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 that enables you to deliver process automation across core private cloud scenarios, such as provisioning and service offering creation. Finally, the IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) solution for Service Manager 2012 will help you with the automation necessary to support your compliance programs.
Standardizes Datacenter Processes with Workflows Designed Around Industry Best Practices
Service Manager 2012 includes built in automated workflows for incident management, problem management, SLA management, and service request fulfillment. These can help you deliver predictable operational SLAs for your datacenter application and infrastructure services. With the expedited release cycles that cloud computing enables, it’s important to set up robust change control so that you can maintain the availability, performance, and reliability of your applications and infrastructure. Service Manager 2012 offers closed-loop change and release management to help you mitigate risks arising from high impact changes that span multiple application and infrastructure components.
System Center Service Manager Authoring Tool (For SCSM 2012 Beta) The System Center Service Manager Authoring Tool is a tool for customization and extension of the built-in functionality in System Center Service Manager. This release supports modifying existing Process Management Packs and creating new Management Packs that define extensions to the Service Manager database for tracking additional information, customizations of forms or new forms, and new workflows. This release is available in 10 languages.
This release is compatible with Service Manager 2012 beta. It contains the necessary changes to ensure the Authoring Tool is compatible with SCSM 2012 but does not contain a new feature set from prior releases.
System Center Cloud Services Process Pack
This process pack offers a self-service experience to facilitate private cloud capacity requests from your business unit IT application owners and end users, including the flexibility to request additional capacity as business demands increase.

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Few days back I blogged about Microsoft Security Essential Beta Announcement by Microsoft Connect. Well, Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is now available for download.

What’s New in the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta?

This Beta version of Microsoft Security Essentials includes the following new features and enhancements to better help protect your PC from threats:

• Enhanced protection through automatic malware remediation: The Beta program will clean highly impacting malware infections automatically, with no required user interaction.

• Enhanced performance:The Beta includes many performance improvements to make sure your PC performance isn’t compromised.

• Simplified UI– Simplified UI makes Microsoft Security Essentials Beta easier to use.

• New and improved protection engine: The updated engine offers enhanced detection with cleanup capabilities and better performance.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials Public Beta

Feedback & Questions:

Feedback and questions regarding the public beta should be submitted on Answers at:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum

NOTE: Posts should be marked as 'Beta' by using the 'Beta?' selection box

System Requirements:

Operating System: Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)*; Windows Vista (Service Pack 1, or Service Pack 2)*; Windows 7 (Service Pack 1)*

• For Windows XP, a PC with a CPU clock speed of 500 MHz or higher, and 256 MB RAM or higher.

• For Windows Vista and Windows 7, a PC with a CPU clock speed of 1.0 GHz or higher, and 1 GB RAM or higher.

• VGA display of 800 × 600 or higher.

• 200 MB of available hard disk space.

• An Internet connection is required for installation and to download the latest virus and spyware definitions for Microsoft Security Essentials Beta.

• Internet Browser:

  • Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.

  • Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later.

• Microsoft Security Essentials Beta also supports Windows XP Mode in Windows 7. For more information see the system requirements for Windows XP Mode in Windows 7.

• *Your PC must run genuine Windows to install Microsoft Security Essentials Beta. Learn more about genuine Windows.

For details visit https://connect.microsoft.com/site981

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