![Microsoft®Core CAL Suite Discussion Guide <br />March 2011 <br />I. Introduction (slide 1)<br />Beginning in August 2011, the Core CAL Suite will be expanded to include Forefront Endpoint Protection and Lync Server Standard CAL. We are updating Core CAL to deliver essential capabilities, deliver improved value to new and existing customers, and align our on-premises products with our Cloud offerings: Microsoft® Windows Intune® and Microsoft®Office 365®. This product alignment helps customers move to the cloud on their terms by delivering similar capabilities to users no matter where their servers or services are deployed.<br />II. Notes to the Speaker / Disclaimer (slide 2-3)<br />The Notes to the Speaker define who is elegible for early disclosure. <br />Disclaimers should be shown to customers – this content is being provided ahead of the actual change and is subject to change.<br />III. Products in the Updated Core CAL Suite (slides 4-5)<br />Goals for this slide:<br />,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/updated20core20cal20discussion20guide2020v120final1-13105790259525-phpapp02-110713124504-phpapp02/85/Updated-Core-Cal-Guide-1-320.jpg)
![Discuss how Core CAL simplifies administration potentially saving time and lowering the cost of desktop management infrastructure. (right-hand column).User Productivity, Collaboration and Communication Capabilities:<br />Microsoft®Exchange Server Standard CAL - designed to help users be more productive from virtually any platform, browser, or mobile device, with new features in Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 that help manage communications overload and lower helpdesk costs.<br />,[object Object],Sites: A Single Infrastructure for All Your Business Web Sites<br />Communities: An Integrated Collaboration Platform<br />Content: Enterprise Content Management for the Masses<br />Search: Relevance, Refinement, and People (excludes FAST Search)<br />Composites: Do-It-Yourself Business Solutions (excludes Access Services & InfoPath Services)<br />Updated Microsoft®Lync Server Standard CAL - The Lync Server Standard CAL. It provides users with real-time presence and enhanced Instant Messaging along with PC-to-PC audio and video communications. Additionally, it provides users with authenticated attendee experience for internally hosted conferences. (NOTE: Only Lync Server Enterprise CAL users can organize conferences and invite attendees)<br />Desktop Management and Security Capabilities:<br />,[object Object],Microsoft®System Center Configuration Manager CML – (previously Systems Management Server) comprehensively assesses, deploys, and updates servers, client computers, and devices—across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments. Optimized for Windows and extensible, Configuration Manager is the best choice for gaining enhanced insight into and control over IT systems.<br />Updated Microsoft® Forefront® Endpoint Protection – enables businesses to align security and management to improve endpoint protection while greatly reducing operational costs. It builds on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and R3, allowing customers to use their existing client management infrastructure to deploy and manage endpoint protection through a single console. This shared infrastructure helps reduce ownership costs while providing improved visibility and control over endpoint management and security.<br />IV. Why Lync and Forefront Endpoint Protection? (slide 6)<br />Goals for this slide:<br />,[object Object]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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- 7. Easily share and publish information – Document collaboration is a critical element to working effectively as a team in your enterprise. The combination of SharePoint Server and Office 2010 offers a spectrum of document collaboration methods, whether it is co-authoring a spreadsheet or routing a business plan through a workflow. However you collaborate on your documents, the days of forwarding attachments in email are history.
- 8. Connected end user experience Workplaces are changing. Teams are more distributed. People need productivity tools that enable them to work from virtually anywhere. Lync Server 2010 helps users communicate with context from Microsoft®Office, Microsoft®Exchange, and Microsoft®SharePoint with instant messaging and rich presence capabilities.
- 9. Management and security from a single console
- 11. If you are an existing Core CAL customer with active SA as of August 1, 2011, you automatically have rights to new Lync and Forefront capabilities of Core CAL.
- 12. Value of Forefront Endpoint Protection and System Center Configuration Manager:
- 13. Cost savings driven by lower infrastructure requirements and fewer vendors to manage. (See Resources section)
- 14. Value of Lync Server:
- 17. Presence features in Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint® and OneNote® help you identify who is actively co-authoring content with you. Presence in Microsoft® Outlook lets you know if email recipients are at their desk before you press “send”.
- 20. You can initiate a Skill Search directly from the Lync Client.
- 22. Demonstrate how the addition of Forefront Endpoint Protection to Core CAL helps optimize desktops and lower costs.
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