Infrastructure Planning and Design

Overview

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