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Microsoft Assessment and Planning

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. This Solution Accelerator provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify the migration planning process.

WHDC White Papers and Documentation

WHDC white papers and documentation for driver and hardware developers

Fact Sheets

Quick overview of the accessibility features of major Microsoft products.

Step-by-Step Tutorials for Office Applications and Windows OS

Accessibility training documentation for Office applications and Windows OS.

FCS v1.0 SP1

Microsoft Client Forefront Security 1.0 SP1

SCCP 2007

System Center Capacity Planner 2007 is a pre-deployment capacity planning and post-deployment change analysis solution for Microsoft Server products including Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB970162)

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB952627)

Update for Windows Vista (KB952627)

Volume Licensing Program Guides

Volume Licensing documents, including program guides, datasheets, and FAQs

Office Project Server IT Pro content CHM

Downloadable CHM version of Project Server content on TechNet.

2007 Office Resource Kit IT Pro content CHM

Downloadable CHM version of 2007 Office Resource Kit content on TechNet.

Search Server 2008 IT Pro content CHM

Downloadable CHM version of Search Server 2008 content on TechNet.

Office SharePoint Server IT Pro content CHM

Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on TechNet.

Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.1

This download package is intended for Microsoft Premier Customers Only. This package includes all of the scoping tools necessary to prepare and qualify your environment to receive a Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server.

IT Manager: Platform Solution Blueprint – Application Lifecycle Management

The Application Lifecycle management (ALM) and IT Process Blueprint Poster by Advaiya gives IT managers a high level view of how ALM and IT Process works within their IT environment.

Office PerformancePoint Server IT Pro content CHM

Downloadable CHM version of PerformancePoint Server content on TechNet.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IT Pro content CHM

Downloadable CHM version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content on TechNet.

Microsoft Gov 2.0

Microsoft Government Performance Management

Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 for IIS 7 Beta 2 (x64)

Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) for IIS7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to application servers based on HTTP headers and server variables, and load balance algorithms. ARR Version 2 Beta 2 adds support for disk based cache.

Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 for IIS 7 Beta 2 (x86)

WinHEC 2008 White Papers

White papers from the 2008 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)

Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation

This download provides the technical documentation for Operations Manager 2007 R2.

Forefront TMG Beta 3 Tools

The tools here provide diagnostics and other feature-related tools, and the software development kit, for Forefront TMG Beta 3.

Windows IT Pro Overview & Comparative Analysis of DPM 2007 SP1

This paper by Windows IT Pro provides an overview of DPM 2007 sp1 and offers some comparisons with other technologies for protecting and recovering Windows environments.

Defence Transformation Poster

Using the Connected Government Framework Microsoft helps defence organisations deliver open, secure, interoperable and manageable IT infrastructures to execute tactical missions and achieve strategic goals.

Microsoft Secured Unified Communications Datasheet

DirectAccess Early Adopter's Guide

This guide introduces DirectAccess concepts, defines new terms, explains requirements for installation, discusses how to design DirectAccess architecture, and then steps you through installation and deployment.

System Center ConfigMgr Extensions for SCAP

The extensions enable Configuration Manager 2007 to consume Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) data streams, assess systems for compliance, and generate report results in SCAP format by taking advantage of the compliance checking capabilities inherent in the desired configuration management (DCM) feature.

Quarantine Control

This white paper describes Network Access Quarantine Control in Windows Server 2003.

Infrastructure Planning and Design

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.

HPC Server 2008 MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Windows HPC Server 2008 Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of Windows HPC Server 2008 for a cluster environment.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: SEPA (ISO 20022 XML) Credit Transfer Payments

This white paper describes the functionality in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 that supports the standard Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) credit transfer (ISO 20022 XML) payment format.

Rapid.Addition.White.Paper

Rapid Addition leverages Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework to build ultra-low latency FIX and FAST processing

Security Update for Virtual PC 2007 (KB969856)

Security Update for Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (KB969856)

Security Update for Virtual PC 2007 SP1 (KB969856)

Security Update for Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB969856)

Microsoft Directory Synchronization Tool 9.1

The Microsoft Directory Synchronization Tool 9.1 enables you to securely synchronize selected data between an on-premise Active Directory and the Forefront Online Security for Exchange (FOSE) and Exchange Hosted Archive (EHA) services.

Bing API SDK

Software Development Kit containing a Compiled HTML Help file and code samples for developing applications with the Bing API.

URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 - Beta (x64)

URL Rewrite Module 2.0 provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server and for modifying response content before it gets served to HTTP clients.

URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 - Beta (x86)

Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit

Emulator Images, Gesture APIs, and Samples for Windows Mobile 6.5

Enabling Third party Firewall DirectAccess Clients

This Word document describes the rules and exemptions for configuring third party host-based firewalls to work with DirectAccess.

MPI Cluster Debugger launch integration

Launch the Visual Studio 2008 MPI Cluster Debugger in three easy steps

Anti-XSS Library V3.0

AntiXSS 3.0 helps you to protect your current applications from cross-site scripting attacks, at the same time helping you to protect your legacy application with its Security Runtime Engine

Windows Firewall Categories

Word document on best practice guidance on Windows Firewall Categories

Exchange Server 2010 Beta Protocol Documentation Set

The Microsoft Exchange Server protocols documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) used by Microsoft Exchange Server to communicate with other Microsoft products.

OneTouch Press Release

OneTouch helps organizations and asset teams make decisions faster and more accurately by bringing all users and data together through a web based work space and data environment.

SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC Service Pack 1

JDBC Driver for SQL Server 2000 Notification

Microsoft SDL - Developer Starter Kit

The Microsoft SDL - Developer Starter Kit provides a compliation of baseline developer security training materials on core Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) topics.