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Enrollment for Core Infrastructure Datasheet
The Enrollment for Core Infrastructure helps you easily acquire the foundation for a protected, well-managed IT infrastructure by offering a cost-efficient way to license software together in a simple per processor license.
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Microsoft New Efficiency Launch-in-a-Box
Take advantage of the joint launch of the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems, and Exchange Server 2010 to generate leads and drive business with effective customer events. Host your own launch event by using the resources in the Microsoft New Efficiency campaign launch event-in-a-box.
Qualify and Develop
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Cloud Computing Datasheet
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Compare Windows Server to Linux
When making a platform decision, many organizations focus on key attributes, such as total cost of ownership (TCO), reliability, and support. The chart below helps put these key criteria in perspective as you compare the advantages and disadvantages of Windows Server versus Red Hat commercial Linux.
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Compare Windows Server to Unix
An optimized desktop can help your customers save money in the short term and the long term.
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Cost savings with desktop optimization
An optimized desktop can help your customers save money in the short term and the long term.
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Customer Presentation: Microsoft Business Ready Security
The next generation of Microsoft Forefront security products will be brought to market through a comprehensive set of five solutions as part of the Business Ready Security strategy. Use this presentation to help articulate the value of Business Ready Security and the key solution scenarios.
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Customer Presentation: Desktop Virtualization
Show customers how virtualization technologies can lower their overall TCO and can be implemented to achieve greater flexibility.
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Customer Presentation: Forefront Identity and Access Management Solution
This presentation demonstrates how the Forefront Identity and Access Management solution enables more secure, identity-based access to applications on-premises and in the cloud from virtually any location or virtually any device.
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Customer Presentation: Forefront Information Protection Solution
Discover, protect, and manage confidential data throughout your business with a comprehensive solution integrated with the computing platform and applications.
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Customer Presentation: Forefront Secure Collaboration Solution
This presentation will help you to review with your customer the benefits of a Forefront Secure Collaboration solution, which enables more secure business collaboration from virtually anywhere and across devices, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information.
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Customer Presentation: Forefront Secure Endpoint Solution
The Forefront Secure Endpoint solution helps protect client and server operating systems from emerging threats and information loss, while enabling more secure access from virtually anywhere.
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Customer Presentation: Forefront Secure Messaging Solution
Use this presentation to show how the Secure Messaging solution helps you deliver more secure business communication from virtually anywhere and on virtually any device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information.
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Customer Presentation: Optimized Desktop - Modern OS Rollout
Show customers how the combination of Windows 7 and MDOP provides access to information anywhere, enhanced security, and streamlined PC management.
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Customer Presentation: Server Virtualization
Give customers an overview of server virtualization and how to cut costs in their datacenter and desktop infrastructure through Microsoft virtualization solutions.
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Customer Presentation: The Optimized Datacenter
Show customers how Microsoft can help them optimize their datacenter and get more value from their information technology resources.
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Customer Presentation: Virtualization Business Continuity
Show customers key business continuity concepts for virtualized environments and how Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V provides an ideal platform for deployments using virtualization.
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Customer Presentation: Virtualization IT Consolidation
Show customers key IT consolidation concepts for virtualized environments and how Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V provides an ideal platform for deployments using virtualization.
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Customer Presentation: Virtualization Lab Automation and Stage Management
Show customers key lab automation concepts for virtualized environments and how Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V provides an ideal platform for deployments using virtualization.
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Customer Presentation: Virtualization Security Solutions
Show customers key security concepts for virtualized environments and how Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V provides an ideal platform for deployments using virtualization.
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Customer Presentation: Virtualization Storage Solutions
Show customers key storage concepts for virtualized environments and how Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V provides an ideal platform for deployments using virtualization.
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Datacenter Management Optimization with Microsoft System Center
Use this white paper to show customers capabilities enabled by the System Center platform using packaged best practices and an integrated end-to-end management capability across the complete datacenter environment.
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Datasheet: Desktop Optimization using Windows and the Microsoft Office System
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Datasheet: Forefront Identity and Access Management Solution
Use this datasheet as an overview to the Forefront Identity and Access Management solution.
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Datasheet: Forefront Information Protection Solution
Use this datasheet as an overview to the Forefront Information Protection solution.
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Datasheet: Forefront Secure Collaboration Solution
Use this datasheet as an overview to the Forefront Secure Collaboration solution.
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Datasheet: Forefront Secure Endpoint Solution
Use this datasheet as an overview to the Forefront Secure Endpoint solution.
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Datasheet: Forefront Secure Messaging Solution
Review with customers the value of leveraging the Forefront Secure Messaging solution to deliver more secure business communication from virtually anywhere and on virtually any device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information.
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Datasheet: Microsoft Business Ready Security
This datasheet covers the industry drivers behind Microsoft's Business Ready Security strategy, along with an overview of the Forefront product suite and key solution scenarios that fit within this strategy.
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Datasheet: Server Consolidation through Virtualization
Leave with customers an overview of ways to address business challenges such as identifying virtualization server candidates or hosts and how to handle physical to virtual migrations.
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Datasheet: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Combined Value
Review with customers the combined value of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Desktop Virtualization Strategy
Your organization can use Microsoft Desktop Virtualization solutions to optimize your desktop environment. Download this white paper to learn how to categorize your users and match technology offers to specific user needs.
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DirectAccess Datasheet
DirectAccess is a new feature in the Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems. With DirectAccess, users can securely access corporate resources without having to go through a virtual private network (VPN).
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Driving Costs Out of IT Infrastructure while Increasing Optimization with System Center
Show customers the vision of Dynamic IT to deliver improvements in efficiency and availability in IT infrastructure while driving down cost.
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Enrollment for Core Infrastructure Datasheet
The Enrollment for Core Infrastructure helps you easily acquire the foundation for a protected, well-managed IT infrastructure by offering a cost-efficient way to license software together in a simple per processor license.
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ESG Lab Validation Report on Microsoft Hyper-V
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How Windows Server 2008 R2 Helps Optimize IT and Save You Money
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Lowering the Cost of Delivering Datacenter Services With System Center
Show customers how you are able to provide specific datacenter solutions that are specifically designed to lower the cost of operations and improve the availability and performance of datacenter services they deliver.
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Managing a VMware Infrastructure using System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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Managing Client Virtualization
Learn more about how System Center and App-V enable a spectrum of client virtualization scenarios.
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Microsoft Application Virtualization Cost Reduction Study
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Microsoft Application Virtualization Datasheet
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Microsoft VDI 101
Explore the unique use cases for Microsoft VDI
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Microsoft Virtualization from Data Center to Desktop
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Presentation: Dynamic Data Center Toolkit Opportunities for Hosters
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Server Management Suites Volume Licensing – System Center
This site helps you to locate pricing and licensing information on the System Center server management suites.
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The Benefits of Virtualizing Microsoft® SQL Server® in Hitachi Storage Environments
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Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2
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Virtualization for Microsoft Server Applications
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Virtualization Reality: Why Microsoft Virtualization Solutions Deliver Value When Compared to Vmware
This white paper describes why the VMware cost calculator, based on a white paper by the Taneja Group, does not produce the real-world calculations that it claims.
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Vmware Comparison
Resources to help you compete with Vmware
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VMware Comparison Kit
Vmware comparison essentials - technical comparison brochure, business comparison brochure, Vmware's top 10 myths and customer presentation.
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White Paper: Accelerate IT and Business Success with a Windows Optimized Desktop
Review with customers the Windows® 7 operating system, as part of a Windows Optimized Desktop solution from Microsoft, designed to help with today’s imminent challenges while ensuring your customers' future success.
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White Paper: The Optimized Datacenter
Review with customers how by optimizing their datacenter they can reduce IT costs, improve IT service levels, and enable new business scenarios more quickly. Outline key projects to implement within the optimized datacenter
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Windows Desktop Solution Accelerators – Windows 7
Use the proven guidance and automated tools in these Solution Accelerators to assess your hardware, deploy and securely operate Windows 7.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Licensing
Microsoft will introduce new licensing options with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 to address customer business needs and to complement the technical capabilities of Microsoft server products.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Overview
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Sales Discussion Guide
Download this sales discussion guide for the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system includes customer talking points, top reasons to buy, customer objections, partner offers, and key resources.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 TDM Whitepaper
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Windows Server 2008: Choosing the Right Edition
Find the Windows Server 2008 version that fits your customers' needs. This presentation outlines the available versions and includes licensing and SKU information.
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Windows Server Editions
Windows Server 2008 R2 is available in multiple editions to support the varying server and workload needs of organizations.
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Worker scenarios for the optimized desktop
Learn more about five scenarios for enabling workers to be successful in their jobs with Microsoft desktop solutions.
Solutions
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BranchCache details
The Windows 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems introduce BranchCache, which enables content from file and Web servers on a wide area network (WAN) to be cached on computers at a local branch office. BranchCache can improve application response time and reduce WAN traffic.
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Disaster Recovery: Disaster Tolerant Virtualization Architecture with HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension and Microsoft Hyper-V
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Disaster Recovery: EMC - Disaster Recovery in a Geographically Dispersed Cross-Site Virtual Environment
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Disaster Recovery: Hitachi Storage Cluster for Microsoft Hyper-V - Optimizing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Microsoft Hyper-V Environments
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Disaster Recovery: Improving Efficiency and Availability Using Microsoft Hyper-V and NetApp Storage
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EMC Virtual Architecture for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Exchange: Performance analysis and power savings of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 consolidation on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
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Five desktop optimization best practices.
Across top-performing companies, five fundamental practices emerge as essential to moving the IT infrastructure along the maturity continuum
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HP recommended configuration for Exchange Server 2010 and Hyper-V R2: HP LeftHand P4000 SAN (5000 users, 250MB mailboxes)
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HP recommended configuration for Exchange Server 2010 and Hyper-V R2: StorageWorks EVA8400 using CA-EVA and CLX-EVA (20,000 users, 500MB mailboxes)
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Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Desktop Virtualization
Start planning your infrastructure for App-V and Med-V with Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Desktop Virtualization.
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MDOP ROI Calculator
Use this analysis tool to help customers examine current MDOP opportunities for improvement, quantifying the potential savings, service level and agility benefits, investment and ROI for implementing MDOP.
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit
Use this free toolkit to assess your customer's current IT infrastructure and determine the right Microsoft technologies for their IT needs
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Server Consolidation
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Return on Investment Analysis for Server Consolidation Assessment
Using the MAP Toolkit, you can export the consolidation recommendations to an XML file, import the XML file to the Alinean Integrated Virtualization ROI calculator, and analyze your potential ROI and cost savings.
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SAP: Best Practices for SAP on Hyper-V
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Virtualization of SharePoint Products and Technologies
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Virtualization ROI tool
Estimate the return on investment in Microsoft Virtualization solutions. Now integrated with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit.
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Virtualization ROI tool user guide
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Windows Desktop Solution Accelerators – Windows 7
Use the proven guidance and automated tools in these Solution Accelerators to assess your hardware, deploy and securely operate Windows 7.
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Windows Desktop Solution Accelerators – Windows 7
A step-by-step guide to help you through the account discovery process for each of the three Optimization models.
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Automated and Centralized Deployment, Provisioning, and Update of Windows Server
Leave with customers an overview of a solution that delivers powerful automation capabilities from a central location and can handle the deployment, provisioning, and update of Windows Servers in the datacenter.
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Customer Presentation: Windows Optimized Desktop
Highlight how a Windows Optimized Desktop can help your customers address the challenges and needs with each of the types of employees in their organization.
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Customer Story: AGC Automotive
"Using System Center solutions, we've realized a 50 percent reduction in the overall time it takes to manage our data center. Plus, by reducing firefighting, we're able to take on a more strategic role for the company and reduce outside consulting fees." - Steve Gray, Manager of Support Services
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Customer story: CDW increases performance with Windows 7
"Windows 7 performs better than earlier systems—on the same hardware with no upgrades necessary. We're seeing a 25 percent drop in start-up times, along with about 33 percent better power management on Windows 7." Doug Miller, Practice Architect, CDW
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Customer Story: Continental Airlines
Continental Airlines Projects $1.5 Million Annual Savings Through Virtualization.
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Customer Story: Convergent Computing
"With DirectAccess in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, we were able to get rid of our VPN, saving us $40,000 a year .... We also saved $20,000 by not having to buy an updated SSL VPN device." Rand Morimoto, President, Convergent Computing
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Customer story: Convergent Computing
"Consulting Firm and Microsoft Partner Saves $64K in Annual Overhead with Data Protection Manager. ""With a solution this solid, we have the luxury of being able to rely almost completely on automated backup." Rand Morimoto, President, Convergent Computing
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Customer Story: Crutchfield
Audio retailer makes sound decision with virtualization, saves $245,000 in hardware.
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Customer story: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
"It was getting harder to manage our virtualized environment, so we were really excited about the management efficiencies we would get with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008." Robert McShinsky, Senior Systems Administrator, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
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Customer Story: Edipower
“Today, with Hyper-V, we’ve provided the business with a uniform, high-performing IT infrastructure that is easy to manage and maintain.”
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Customer Story: Food Company Uses Virtualization to cut IT Costs by $2 Million
"Using Microsoft software, we were able to reduce our server holdings by 76 percent and our energy costs by 78 percent. We can funnel this $2 million savings into other areas of the business." Dario Galinec, Chief Information Officer, Podravka
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Customer Story: Ingersoll Rand
“We are also saving those VMware software costs, because Hyper-V software is a free server role within Windows Server 2008. Overall, our Hyper-V virtualization solution at the 39 sites is avoiding a cost of $571,350.”
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Customer Story: NuStar Energy
"Without Microsoft software, I would need 50 percent more people to manage our environment. Microsoft management software is important in containing costs as we grow our worldwide infrastructure." - Robert Amos, Manager of IT Systems
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Customer Story: PoundHost
Hoster Uses Hyper-V to Provide Servers on Demand and Boost Profitability by 55 Percent
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Customer story: Systex cuts IT work 50% with Windows 7
"Our IT staff used to spend 50 percent of its time monitoring and removing unauthorized software from computers. Windows 7 eliminates this work. [They] can now spend more time creating new solutions." David Feng, Technical Director, Systex
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Customer story: Total Wine & More
"System Center has really enabled us to be more proactive in the way we think about our business and freed up time for our staff to take on new projects that will move the business forward." Todd Slan, Director of Technology
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Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 with Microsoft System Center
Leave with customers an overview of ways to reduce the cost of datacenter operations, enhance security and availability, while improving server environment manageability.
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Deploying and Managing Windows Server with System Center
Show customers how System Center helps optimize the management of datacenters by lowering costs through server and resource automation, optimizing datacenter infrastructure, and increasing simplicity.
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Deployment, Provisioning, and Update of Windows Server
Leave with customers an overview of a solution that delivers powerful automation capabilities from a central location and can handle the deployment, provisioning, and update of Windows Servers in the datacenter.
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How Customers Are Cutting Costs and Building Value with Microsoft Virtualization
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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010) provides a common console with the comprehensive tools and guidance needed to efficiently manage deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Windows Server Deployment and Management With System Center
Show customers how System Center helps optimize the management of datacenters by lowering costs through server and resource automation, optimizing datacenter infrastructure, and increasing simplicity.
