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Branch Office Infrastructure Solution
                               (c) Microsoft 2005

Released: June 6, 2005
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Branch Office Infrastructure Solution Download

Summary
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The Branch Office Infrastructure Solution (BOIS) provides guidance to help large organizations and enterprises streamline branch office infrastructures. The goal is to minimize the total cost of ownership and improve management efficiency and effectiveness.

The BOIS deliverables provide conceptual information to facilitate the definition and deployment of a streamlined branch office infrastructure solution that provides a comprehensive set of core IT infrastructure services based on the Microsoft® Windows® operating system. The BOIS deliverables also include prescriptive guidance and best practices for implementing a complete, lab-validated single-server solution for the branch office using automated deployment tools. The automation tools are part of this download and are configurable for unique branch office deployments.


This release contains all of the BOIS documents, tools, and job aids, as listed below. 
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Folder contents of Branch_Office_Infrastructure_Solution.zip:

	BOIS-1 Overview.doc
	- The Overview document provides an overview of the complete solution set, including the technologies used and a roadmap to the documents that comprise the BOIS deliverables.
	
	BOIS-2 Architecture Blueprint.doc
	- The Architecture Blueprint provides planning and design guidance for analyzing requirements and options and then mapping them to specific design options for each component and technology. It includes a “Decision Tree” for determining which branch office infrastructure solutions best meet the needs of your organization.

	BOIS-3 Solution Introduction.doc
	- The Introduction to the Single-Server Solution provides an introduction to the structure, scope, and technologies used in the single-server branch office infrastructure solution. 

	BOIS-4 Solution Planning Guide.doc
	- The Planning Guide for the Single-Server Solution provides the plan for a scenario-based single-server branch office infrastructure solution, including the design of the domain, network, and services for the single-server branch office, as well as information about the tools to be used to automate the deployment. 

	BOIS-5 Solution Build Guide.doc
	- The Build Guide for the Single-Server Solution provides prescriptive guidance for building the single-server branch office infrastructue solution, based on the use of tools to configure and automate the solution.

	BOIS-6-Solution Test Guide.doc
	- The Test Guide for the Single-Server solution documents the test methods, tools, and test cases used to validate the single-server branch office solution.

	BOISBuildFiles.msi
	- The tools, scripts, and other job aids used to deploy and test the solution, including the automation tools and a configurable user interface for the automation.

	ADT.msi
	- The Microsoft Automated Deployment Toolkit (ADT) provides a script library, a task sequencer, and samples that will enable the automation of provisioning tasks to control a detailed and complicated sequence of tasks.



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