What are the Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides?

Microsoft’s site details the IPD guides, which focus on planning and deploying Windows Server 2008 and virtualization. The guides are broken down into a Word document and a PowerPoint presentation, which walk through the planning and deployment process of each technology. Each guide provides a technical decision follow definition through the planning process, a list of decisions to be made, the commonly available options and considerations, and how these considerations and options relate to the business cost, complexity. Each guide also analyzes how to gather all the pertinent business information to ensure the technical solution meets all requirements.

Guides are currently available for:

• Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology
• Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization
• Windows Server Virtualization
• Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services
• Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services
• Windows Deployment Services