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Microsoft TechNet website has made Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide available for download. The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide provides guidance for Microsoft products. All these documents will help readers to get core decision points to design an infrastructure for Microsoft products. Infrastructure Planning and Design documents provides a manes to design decisions that ensures that your decisions will meet the requirements for both business and infrastructure stakeholders. All of these documents are designed to be used by Infrastructure planners and architects, Partners and consultants and Business managers.

Exchange Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services: This guide provides a clear comparison of e-mail technologies across on-premises, standard hosting, and dedicated hosting scenarios. Use the guide as a framework for evaluating the technical feasibility of Microsoft Exchange Online. The guide provides an overall scoring assessment for each option, identifying key mail services and requirements for your organization. It can help you understand the impact of adopting software-plus-services, weigh the importance of each topic to your organization, and learn which offering will serve you best.
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 for R2: This guide enables you to quickly select which Configuration Manager features your organization needs in order to meet business requirements. It walks you through the process of determining which site roles are required in order to support those features, making this a less daunting task. The guide drives you through Configuration Manager infrastructure design decisions in a logical, sequential order. It accelerates the infrastructure design process by leveraging best practice guidance from the product group and subject matter experts. Using this guide can help you make the best decisions for successfully optimizing your infrastructure to best meet business requirements.
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5: This guide describes the latest release of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V). App-V, formerly SoftGrid, enables organizations to respond to the challenge of managing applications by implementing application virtualization. Take advantage of new features in App-V 4.5 such as streaming servers and support for Internet-based clients. This IPD guide takes you step by step through the process of planning your application virtualization infrastructure.
Internet Information Services 7.0 : This guide provides a consistent structure for addressing the decisions and activities critical to the successful implementation of the Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 infrastructure.
Selecting the Right NAP Architecture :The objective of this guide is to provide a consistent structure for addressing the decisions and activities most critical to the successful implementation of the Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) infrastructure.
Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology :The objective of this guide is to enable the reader to rapidly and accurately select which Microsoft virtualization technology or technologies to use for specific scenarios.
System Center Operations Manager 2007: This guide leads the reader through the process of planning a System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 infrastructure.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 :The goal of this guide is to help project teams gather information, make decisions, choose options, and complete the tasks required to create and design a Virtual Machine Manager infrastructure.
Microsoft Server Virtualization :This guide leads the reader step by step through the process of planning server virtualization environments.
Windows Deployment Services :The purpose of this guide is to present the infrastructure planning process for Windows Deployment Services by providing a clear and concise workflow of the decisions and tasks required.
Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services: This guide is intended to assist designers in the decision-making process by providing a clear and concise path for designing the Active Directory infrastructure.
Windows Server 2008 File Services: This guide provides the basic building blocks upon which many other infrastructure services are based. Enjoy peace of mind in knowing that all critical phases of the plan are included, allowing you to establish a good foundation for future expansion.
Windows Server 2008 Print Services: The goal of this guide is to enable you to strategically plan your print infrastructure. By analyzing your printing needs, you will be able to design print servers with sufficient memory and spooler capacity. Efficiently designing printer pools can help you avoid problems before they begin, erase performance bottlenecks, and serve your customers more reliably.
Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services: This guide leads the reader step by step through the process of planning a Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services infrastructure.