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The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.
Infrastructure Planning and Design guides share a common structure, including:
- Definition of the technical decision flow through the planning process.
- Listing of decisions to be made and the commonly available options and considerations.
- Relating the decisions and options to the business in terms of cost, complexity, and other characteristics.
- Framing decisions in terms of additional questions to the business to ensure a comprehensive alignment with the appropriate business landscape.
These guides complement product documentation by focusing on infrastructure design options.
Each guide leads the reader through critical infrastructure design decisions, in the appropriate order, evaluating the available options for each decision against its impact on critical characteristics of the infrastructure. The IPD Series highlights when service and infrastructure goals should be validated with the organization and provides additional questions that should be asked of service stakeholders and decision makers.
IPD consists of the following downloadable packages:
- New! System Center 2012 - Operations Manager
- Active Directory Certificate Services
- Active Directory Domain Services
- DirectAccess
- Dynamic Datacenter
- Exchange Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services
- File Services
- Forefront Identity Manager 2010
- Forefront Unified Access Gateway
- Internet Information Services
- IPD Series Introduction
- Malware Response
- Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6
- Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)
- Print Services
- Remote Desktop Services
- Selecting the Right NAP Architecture
- Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology
- SharePoint Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services
- SharePoint Server 2010
- SQL Server
- System Center 2012 - Service Manager
- System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager
- System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 and Forefront Endpoint Protection
- System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 with SP1
- System Center Operations Manager 2007
- System Center Service Manager
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
- Terminal Services
- Windows Deployment Services
- Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
- Windows Server Virtualization
- Windows User State Virtualization
The guides are available as individual downloads or as a single all-in-one package.
For more information about Infrastructure Planning and Design, read the Frequently Asked Questions.
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System Requirements
Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8
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- Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats (available as a free download) can be used to open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.
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