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New and updated content from Microsoft IT Showcase

I would like to highlight 2 recent documents that were made available as part of the Microsoft IT Showcase:

• Unified Communications Improves Business Outcomes, Lowers Costs, and Enhances Environmental Sustainability
  Microsoft IT used a business value framework developed by Forrester Research to more precisely measure the overall business impact and the return on investment of unified communications at Microsoft. The analysis showed that the UC solution was generating an ROI of 250 percent by enabling employees to save more than $218 million annually. The outcome and continued use of the analysis methodology justify further investments in UC technology.
• Addressing messaging threats with Forefront Security for Exchange Server
  In deploying the Exchange 2007-based messaging-protection solution, Microsoft IT used all messaging protection features of the Edge Transport server role and Forefront Security for Exchange Server to block, delete, reject, or quarantine unwanted messages.

And, if you have the time, read also these 2. Although they are not UC related, you can definitely use virtualization in this context.

• How Microsoft Designs the Virtualization Host and Network Infrastructure
  When challenged with optimizing its server infrastructure, Microsoft IT faces the same physical constraints, environmental sustainability challenges, and economic pressures as other enterprise organizations. Virtualization technologies and management products, such as the Hyper-V feature of Windows Server 2008 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, allow Microsoft IT to deliver on two goals: support the business needs of Microsoft and build a foundation for the Dynamic IT initiative. Virtualization is a key component of this infrastructure optimization strategy and reduces cost and server provisioning time. At the same time, virtualization enhances server resource availability.

• Virtualization Quickly and Effectively Meets the Demands of Rapidly Changing Businesses
  When challenged with optimizing its server infrastructure, Microsoft IT faces the same physical constraints, environmental sustainability challenges, and economic pressures as other enterprise organizations. Virtualization technologies and management products, such as the Hyper-V feature of Windows Server 2008 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, allow Microsoft IT to deliver on two goals: support the business needs of Microsoft and build a foundation for the Dynamic IT initiative. Virtualization is a key component of this infrastructure optimization strategy and reduces cost and server provisioning time. At the same time, virtualization enhances server resource availability.

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