Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for System Center

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Streamline and clarify your System Center infrastructure design processes with concise planning guidance from IPD Guides for System Center. Each guide addresses a unique System Center infrastructure technology or scenario, provides critical architectural decisions to be addressed, available options, as well as a means to validate design decisions to ensure that solutions meet requirements of both business and IT stakeholders.

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Multi-product planning and design guidance for Microsoft System Center is available in the following IPD Guides for System Center:

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Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway Planning and Design Guide - Now Available
Follow the simple, three-step process in this guide to successfully design Forefront Unified Access Gateway infrastructure.

Updated! Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology
Updated to include coverage of Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), this guide walks the reader through the process of selecting the right virtualization technology for each workload—in five steps or fewer.

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This guide leads the reader through the infrastructure design process in a logical, sequential order. The guide enables the reader to quickly identify the types of data that will be protected, what the recovery goals are, and the protection strategy to achieve those goals.

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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (updated for SCVMM 2008 R2)
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