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Plan your Windows Server 2012 deployments withSolution Accelerators!

Get ready for Windows Server 2012 with Solution Accelerators! Freely available and fully supported by Microsoft, Solution Accelerators are automated tools to help you plan, securely deploy, and manage Windows Server 2012 — easier, faster, and at less cost.

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Plan and securely deploy your migration to Windows Server 2012 with Solution Accelerators

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Get ready for Windows Server 2012 with Solution Accelerators! The heart of the Microsoft Cloud OS is Windows Server 2012. By adopting Windows Server 2012, enterprise IT is better equipped to support business agility, efficiency, and innovation. The latest versions of the Solution Accelerators deliver several new planning and deployment scenarios for Windows Server 2012 that help you build for the future with agility and focus while lowering the cost of delivering IT.

Assess readiness for Windows Server 2012 with Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) ToolkitMAP is an agentless inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations. MAP assesses the readiness of your IT infrastructure for a Windows Server 2012 deployment. This assessment includes detailed and actionable recommendations indicating the machines that meet Windows Server 2012 system requirements and which may require hardware updates. A comprehensive inventory of servers, operating systems, workloads, devices, and server roles is included to help in your planning efforts.  Learn more

Accelerate and automate Windows Server 2012 deployments with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)MDT 2012 provides a common console with comprehensive tools and guidance for every organizational role—making it the recommended process and toolset to automate large-scale Windows Server 2012 deployments. MDT provides you with the following benefits: unified tools and processes required for desktop and server deployment in a common console and collection of guidance, reduced deployment time and standardized desktop and server images, along with improved security and ongoing configuration management. Learn more

Automate configuration management of Windows Server 2012 with Security Compliance Manager (SCM)SCM enables you to quickly configure and manage security of your Windows Server 2012 deployments, traditional datacenter, and private cloud using Group Policy and System Center Configuration Manager. SCM provides ready-to-deploy policies and DCM configuration packs based on Microsoft Security Guide recommendations and industry best practices, allowing you to easily manage configuration drift and address compliance requirements for Windows Server 2012. Learn more

Additional ResourcesWindows Server infrastructure planning guidance with” Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) series ”

Classify, and protect data on Windows files servers; strengthen compliance with Data Classification Toolkit (DCT)

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