Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides

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.

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! Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization
  • New! Microsoft SQL Server 2008
  • Exchange Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services
  • Internet Information Services 7.0
  • IPD Series Introduction
  • Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5
  • Selecting the Right NAP Architecture
  • Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology
  • System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 with R2
  • System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 with SP1
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
  • Windows Deployment Services
  • Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
  • Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services
  • Windows Server 2008 File Services
  • Windows Server 2008 Print Services
  • Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services
  • Windows Server Virtualization (for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1)

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