Management Resources

These sites, in addition to the resources on MSM, contain guidance and tools to help you improve your enterprise IT management:

Service Monitoring and Control
This Solution Accelerator provides the knowledge, tools, and services to monitor services running on the Microsoft platform using MOM.

Platform Manageability Operations Assessment

Part of the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) approach, the Operations Assessment enables an operations staff to accelerate the deployment of their management solution

Security Patch Management
This Solution Accelerator provides prescriptive guidance for efficiently deploying security patches within organizations using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) or Software Update Services (SUS).

Management Architecture Guide
This document provides guidance on designing architecture for Microsoft management technologies and products and offers both conceptual information and best practices required for successfully designing and implementing management architecture.

Account Management for Windows Server 2003
This integrated Solution Accelerator provides guidance for streamlining user account administration and office location changes.

Windows Server Deployment
This Solution Accelerator provides guidance for efficient deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 using Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and Microsoft SMS.

Business Desktop Deployment
This Solution Accelerator provides guidance for efficient deployment of Microsoft Windows XP Professional, as well as Microsoft Office XP Professional or Office Professional Edition 2003.