Microsoft Solutions

Advanced Infrastructure Solutions

Overview

Large businesses want to empower employees to help gain competitive advantage. And they need technology partners who have specialized skills and expertise in designing and implementing innovative yet cost-effective server solutions that support their objectives.

Active Directory

Your customers are increasingly asked to do more with less; budgets are being reduced while business needs are growing. Active Directory, the Microsoft identity and access management solution–can help you improve operational efficiency, reduce security risks, and open new business opportunities.

Enrolling in the Active Directory specialization helps identify you as a professional qualified to deploy a Microsoft identity management solution, including integrated directory and security services; single sign-on to multiple applications, websites, and services; automated account provisioning and deprovisioning; and interoperability with other platforms and applications. By delivering these capabilities, you can improve productivity and reduce the costs associated with managing the identity life cycle.

Systems Management

System Center solutions provide integrated management of all aspects of IT infrastructures in physical and virtual environments, using knowledge-driven management guidance to help organizations realize the value of their investment faster than ever. The Microsoft System Center family of products, including System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007, can help your organization improve operational efficiency in areas of service monitoring, backup and file recovery, OS deployment, security updating, and asset management. The functionality and economics of System Center solutions provide the fastest time to value while building a more agile IT infrastructure.

Storage Solutions

Your customers need cost-effective storage-management solutions that keep their critical data protected and highly available. Microsoft storage solutions meet those demands with high-performance, easy-to-manage, cost-effective file serving, storage, and data protection capabilities. Microsoft Storage Solutions offers a rich set of benefits and resources to help you successfully design, and deploy world-class storage solutions that include storage consolidation, disaster recovery, replication, and file serving.

Windows Desktop Deployment

The productivity of business desktop users plays a central role in how well an organization harnesses its information assets, optimizes its supply chains, and delivers new products and services to your onrganization. The Microsoft desktop operating system provides a platform to build this business value securely and cost effectively. When you deploy the Windows Vista operating system, you deliver improved productivity around information management. Mobility for business users. And enhanced security and lower total cost of ownership for IT professionals.