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Reduce costs and complexity
Now, it's more important than ever to reduce your technology costs and complexity, simplify management of your servers, and reduce downtime. Microsoft has developed a set of cost-effective virtualisation and management technologies, designed for all businesses, to help you consolidate physical servers and increase IT management efficiency while continuing to use your current line-of-business applications.

With management of your IT infrastructure streamlined, your staff have more time to be proactive, keeping critical business applications updated and running. Virtualisation and management products are optimised for the Windows operating system and support interoperability, so you can save money using your existing Windows and non-Microsoft investments, and reduce costs and complexity. With functionality delivered at a lower cost than VMware, reliable Microsoft virtualisation technologies helps you prepare for future technology needs, and get even more out of your existing servers.

Desktop

Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services (RDS), continues to provide the most cost-effective base for delivering Server Based Computing.

• Extend desktop and application deployments from the data centre to any device. Remote Desktop Services is expanding its role to provide an extensible platform for any Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
• Accelerates desktop and application deployment with Microsoft's leading virtualisation technologies
• Increases remote worker efficiency enabling access to rich applications both from a web page and seamlessly integrated with a local desktop

Application

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (App-V) transforms applications into centrally-managed virtual services that are never installed and don’t conflict with other applications.

• Streams applications on-demand over the internet or via the corporate network to desktops, Terminal servers and laptops
• Automates and simplifies the application management lifecycle by significantly reducing regression and application interoperability testing
• No reboots required; no waiting for applications to start; and no need to uninstall when retiring an application

Server

App-V makes it easier than ever to take advantage of the cost savings of virtualisation through Windows Server 2008.

• Increased availability for virtualised data centres through enhancements such as Live Migration
• Improved management of virtualised data centres through Powershell and System Centre integration

Protect your messaging with robust built-in security features
Exchange Server keeps your people securely connected - wherever, whenever and however they need. It includes built-in features to maintain e-mail availability, and to ensure your communications remain secure. For your IT department, Exchange Server 2010 simplifies provisioning for fixed and mobile devices in a manageable and cost-effective manner.

It features built-in defences against spam and phishing e-mails, as well as additional integrated filtering and multi-engine scanning capabilities, provide advanced protection against viruses and other e-mail threats.* Controls for messages in transport or requiring retention, plus flexible journaling, help you to meet organisational, legal and regulatory compliance requirements. To maintain business continuity, new data replication capabilities (local and clustered) keep the system highly available while limiting the need and frequency for tape backup. And to ensure your messaging remains secure, new encryption features for both internal and Internet-based messages help protect the confidentiality of messages in transit.

*Exchange Hosted Filtering and Forefront Security for Exchange Server are both available with the Exchange Server Enterprise Client Access License.

Access messages anywhere
Exchange Server's new Exchange Unified Messaging goes beyond e-mail to deliver more types of communications to the inbox, including faxes and voice mail, as well as offering new capabilities such as voice access from any standard phone. A rich Outlook-like experience from any Internet connected computer with a supported browser provides encrypted access to the inbox, along with powerful search capabilities, and the ability to view different types of attachments. Exchange ActiveSync technology delivers an improved e-mail and calendaring experience on mobile devices, while offering enhanced device and security policy control. And to support team collaboration, enhanced calendaring, out-of-office, resource booking and meeting scheduling capabilities simplify team working and increase productivity.

Improve operational efficiency
With Exchange, you can improve storage efficiency through the extended memory and larger cache of x64-based architecture, even as mailbox sizes increase - while more efficient routing ensures the optimum use of bandwidth. New graphical and command-line interfaces offer improved manageability and increased automation, while integrated tools simplify maintenance. Exchange Server 2007’s modular setup - along with server provisioning based on server roles and capabilities to automatically discover Outlook and mobile clients - significantly simplify the deployment process. And for development, the new Web services-based application programming interface (API) and .NET integration via Exchange Management Shell tasks enable rapid development for custom and third-party applications.

Windows 7 Enterprise is the most advanced Windows operating system for business PCs, designed to meet the evolving needs of the users and IT professionals in your organisation—both in and out of the office. With exclusive features and benefits, Windows 7 Enterprise drives lower total cost of ownership by helping your users stay productive anywhere, enhancing security and control, and simplifying PC management across your organisation.

The Windows 7 Enterprise operating system (OS) is available to Microsoft Software Assurance customers. With Windows 7 Enterprise, you can take advantage of the following features:

• DirectAccess: Give mobile users seamless access to corporate networks without a need to VPN.
• BranchCache: Decrease the time branch office users spend waiting to download files across the network.
• Federated Search: Find information in remote repositories, including SharePoint sites, with a simple user interface.
• BitLocker and BitLocker To Go: Help protect data on PCs and removable drives, with manageability to enforce encryption and backup of recovery keys.
• AppLocker: Specify what software is allowed to run on a user's PCs through centrally managed but flexible Group Policies.
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) optimisations: Improved user experience for VDI with multimon and microphone support, which have the ability to reuse virtual hard drive (VHD) images to boot a physical PC.
• Multilingual user interface: Create a single OS image for deployment to users worldwide.

Microsoft Office 2010 is an exciting and important milestone, delivering a robust combination of server platforms, desktop applications and online services, Microsoft Office has evolved from a suite of individual productivity technologies to a comprehensive, integrated system.

Experience rich and powerful new ways to deliver your best work - whether it's on a computer, Web browser, or Windows phone. Office 2010 has a host of improved functionality such as enhanced tools, customisable templates, photo editing, anywhere access to files and new coauthoring capabilities.

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise is an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications. Improve availability with clustering and hot-add processor capabilities. Improve security with consolidated identity management features. Reduce infrastructure costs by consolidating applications with virtualisation licensing rights. Whatever you need to achieve, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise provides the foundation for a dynamic and scalable IT infrastructure.

High availability
Providing uninterrupted 24x7 services to employees, vendors and partners has become a critical issue for global businesses. Remote employees, global customers and partners need continuous access to systems and data. A disruption in services can result in lost productivity and opportunities.

Cost-effective virtualisation
Many organisations find that patch management, resource utilisation, maintenance costs and server sprawl are among their biggest IT challenges. Server virtualisation technology can help you resolve these issues, and enables you to consolidate resources and realise significant infrastructure and management cost savings.

Increased scalability
As people access information from increasingly varied environments, devices and systems, organisations face an ongoing challenge to maintain availability and productivity without compromising security. Today’s IT infrastructures should be flexible and scalable, to help enable new functionality, and be able to cope with an influx of additional users and locations, and increasingly demanding applications.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 helps businesses react to customer needs and market demands more quickly and efficiently while maintaining high aviliability and security of data. The enterprise-class business intelligence features built in to SQL Server produce increased effiecncy and insight across the organisation at a low total cost of ownership.

Microsoft SharePoint is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organisational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.

Improve team productivity

High performing teams are a key to better business results.

• Give users the ability to create and control their own collaborative workspaces. Make it easy for teams to adapt workspaces to the needs of the project.
• Manage projects more efficiently with the project task list template. Visualise task relationships and project status with automated Gantt charts.
• Coordinate teamwork with shared calendars, alerts and notifications. Connect team calendars to the desktop with Microsoft Office Outlook.
• Communicate with team members in context using presence and instant messaging.
• Make it easy to include and work with team members from outside the organisation.

Author, review, and publish documents

Improvements in key document-centric processes produce better content in less time.

• Use document workspaces to streamline the document creation process.
• Enable disconnected participation with offline support.
• Manage the document lifecycle with integrated Enterprise Content Management (ECM) capabilities.

Streamline people-driven business processes

Improved communication and coordination in people-driven processes means more rigorous execution in traditionally hard-to-reach parts of the business.

• Deploy standard site templates to improve common people driven processes like issue tracking.
• Drive out process variation with workflow.
• Create collaborative applications using integrated application development capabilities.

Create, capture, and share community knowledge

Sharing best practices in expert communities drives awareness and adoption of business process innovation.

• Broadcast information with blogs and Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
• Capture community knowledge with wikis.
• Encourage dialogue with surveys and discussions.