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Security Compliance Manager: Overview of SCM (Part 1 of 3)Security Compliance Manager: Overview of SCM (Part 1 of 3)

Take a quick tour of the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool with IT pro evangelist, Matt Hester.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/desktopoptimization.aspx?tab=Videos&seriesid=125&webcastid=17759Security Compliance Manager: Import an Existing Group Policy Object into SCM (Part 2 of 3)

In this screencast with Matt Hester, learn how you can use SCM to import your existing baselines to help compare and merge changes for your baseline configurations. Take advantage of these new customization capabilities to quickly modify security settings to meet the standards of your organization’s environment.

Security Compliance Manager: Export a Group Policy Object from SCM (Part 3 of 3)Security Compliance Manager: Export a Group Policy Object from SCM (Part 3 of 3)

Learn from IT pro evangelist Matt Hester how you can use the Security Compliance Manager tool’s export capabilities to export Group Policy Object (GPO) from the tool into your production environment.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Overview (1 of 6)Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Overview (1 of 6)

Watch this brief overview screencast with IT pro evangelist Matt Hester to learn more about the MAP Toolkit.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Office 2010 (2 of 6)Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Office 2010 (2 of 6)

Learn how the actionable recommendations and assessments provided by the MAP Toolkit can help streamline your migration to Office 2010.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Windows Server Consolidation (3 of 6)Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Windows Server Consolidation (3 of 6)

Delve into the new MAP Toolkit 5.0, and see how it simplifies Windows Server Virtualization planning and consolidation.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Database Discovery for SQL Server (4 of 6)Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Database Discovery for SQL Server (4 of 6)

Look at how new features of MAP 5.0 help with discovery and software usage.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Heterogeneous Server Environment Inventory (5 of 6)

Tour the new MAP 5.0 heterogeneous server environment inventory feature, and learn how MAP performs a network inventory of IT assets, identifying heterogeneous server environments consisting of Windows Server and Linux operating systems, including those running in a virtual environment.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Software Usage Tracker (6 of 6)Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Software Usage Tracker (6 of 6)

Discover how you can simplify software license management and compliance processes with MAP 5.0.

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Accelerate your Migration to the Private Cloud with MAP 7.0 Beta!
Get ready for the private cloud with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0 Beta. This update adds several new private cloud planning scenarios that help you build for the future with... more
Wednesday, May 16
New IPD Guide for System Center 2012 - Service Manager
This guide can help your organization more quickly benefit from this platform for automating and adapting IT Service Management best practices such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MO... more
Wednesday, May 16
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Beta now available!
MVMC provides a Microsoft-supported, freely available, standalone solution for converting VMware virtual machines (VMs) and disks to Hyper-V based virtual machines and virtual hard drives (VHDs).
Monday, Apr 23

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