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Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Security

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide Series provides concise planning guidance for Microsoft infrastructure products, helping to streamline and clarify design processes for unique infrastructure technologies and scenarios.

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Plan your security infrastructure processes
with IPD guidance

Streamline and clarify your security infrastructure design processes with concise planning guidance from IPD Guides for Security. Each guide addresses a unique security 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.

Get started with IPD guides for security

  • Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Malware Response
  • Forefront Identity Manager 2010
  • Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway
  • IPD Guide for Selecting the Right NAP Architecture

What’s New

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Security

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 (MOF) and the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). This guide takes you through an easy-to-follow process for successfully designing the servers and components of a Service Manager implementation.
NEW! Service Management for the Private Cloud
This white paper from our sister team, MOF, will help you take advantage of service management principles to maximize the benefits of the private cloud. Apply service management to get several benefits out of the private cloud, such as elasticity, scalability, automation, and reduced time to market.

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