Microsoft Solution Accelerators

What are Solution Accelerators?

Tools and guidance that help you solve your deployment, planning, and operational IT problems. They are free and fully supported.

What you can do with a Solution Accelerator

Latest News and Releases

Moving to the cloud? Use this free toolkit to build a private cloud infrastructure for your organization
Want to cut IT costs, while maximizing agility? System Center VMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 provides free tools and tested guidance that help you respond dynamically, at lower cost, to your organization... more
Monday, Aug 9

Microsoft Forefront Protection Server Script Kit now available for download
This easily extensible Solution Accelerator provides multi-server management for Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint.
Friday, Aug 6

Build a foundation for a Private Cloud with Microsoft System Center
Need to cut IT costs, while increasing agility? Get free tools and tested guidance that can help you respond more effectively, at lower cost, to your organization's changing needs for IT services.
Thursday, Jul 15

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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Team Blog

Forefront Identity Manager & Active Directory Certificate Services Guidance (Beta) Now Available!
The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) team is working on two new guides: Microsoft Forefront™ Identity Manager 2010 and Active Directory® Certi... more >
Monday, May 3

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for the Dynamic Data Center Now Available!
The Solution Accelerator team has released a new guide: Dynamic Data Center . The design process in the free Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide... more >
Friday, Apr 16

Linux and LAMP Stack Inventory Assessment with MAP 5.0 Beta 1 Toolkit
In my last blog post, I touch based on MAP’s Office 2010 migration assessment feature . As you all know, the MAP 5.0 Beta 1 program is currently under... more >
Wednesday, Apr 7

Michael Niehaus’ Windows and Office deployment ramblings

MDT 2010 Update 1: Fix to make ConvertBooleanToString available again
In MDT 2008, we had various functions in the ZTIUtility.vbs script that could be used in CustomSettings.ini – not that we really intended for th... more >
Wednesday, Jul 28

MDT 2010 Update 1: Fix to re-enable System Restore in ConfigMgr task sequence
Some people noticed that during an OS deployment task sequence, performed either by MDT 2008 Lite Touch or by ConfigMgr, could capture sensitive infor... more >
Wednesday, Jul 28

MDT 2010 Update 1: Fixed Slow Driver Injection in Lite Touch
During Lite Touch deployments, the task sequence runs ZTIDrivers.wsf, which needs to figure out what drivers are needed for the computer, based on the... more >
Thursday, Jul 22

DCM Developers Blog from Sai Kodi

VMM SSP 2.0 Components (High Level)
This post will touch a few basic details on the components present in VMM SSP 2.0. If you have further questions, please post a comment and I can go i... more >
Wednesday, Sep 1

VMM SSP 2.0 web site cannot communicate with the server component
Sometimes you might observe an error while you are trying to peform certain operations in the website that attempt to communicate with the server comp... more >
Wednesday, Sep 1

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 – Release Candidate Available!
Help build a private cloud with Microsoft System Center! Customers are looking to cloud-based solutions that will help them reduce IT costs, while inc... more >
Thursday, Jul 22

MOF and Service Management at Microsoft blog

Apply MOF guidance to Microsoft products and technologies
Last month we announced the release of our most recent beta materials—thanks to those of you who provided feedback and helped influence their de... more >
Wednesday, Jul 28 by Jerry Dyer

Corrected URL for MOF beta materials on Microsoft Connect
The previous post about the latest MOF beta package had the incorrect link. Try this one instead. https://connect.microsoft.com/InvitationUse.aspx?Pro... more >
Tuesday, Jun 29 by Jerry Dyer

Fresh MOF beta materials ready for download on Microsoft Connect!
Our latest collection of beta releases are now available for download. We hope you’ll take the time to preview and provide feedback on these new... more >
Friday, Jun 25 by Jerry Dyer

Solution Accelerators Security & Compliance Team Blog

The future of security baseline management has arrived: Download the Security Compliance Manager!
The Security Compliance Manager is now available for download! Windows 7 security just got easier. The tool includes support for this and other Micros... more >
Tuesday, Apr 13 by Vladis

NOW OPEN: Microsoft Security Compliance Manager version 1.0 Beta Review Program!
The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce the beta release of Microsoft Security Compliance Manager version 1.0, an end-to-end Solution Ac... more >
Tuesday, Feb 16 by JeffSigman

Opening soon: Beta review program for new Security Compliance Manager!
I'm super busy preparing the Beta release for Security Compliance Manager (SCM)! I've gotten a lot of mail recently about what exactly is this SCM thi... more >
Wednesday, Jan 27 by JeffSigman

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Forum