To celebrate Earth Day and help you create a more energy efficient IT infrastructure, TechNet Magazine is publishing a special online-only edition dedicated to Green IT. Discover new tools for planning a virtual environment, learn how to easily enforce power management settings throughout your network using tools you already have, find out what goes into a green datacenter, and more. You’ll find it all on the TechNet Magazine homepage (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149074).

Here’s a glimpse at some of the articles in this issue:

· Framework for Building a “Hyper-Green” Virtual Server System

· Planning Your Power Management and Virtualization Strategies

· Essential Tools for Planning Your Virtual Infrastructure

· Enforce Power Management Settings in your Organization with Group Policy

· Sleep or Hibernate?

· Is It Time to Turn Off Your Servers?

· Conserving Energy with Group Policy

· Plan and Optimize Your Infrastructure to be Energy Efficient with System Center

· Build a Green Datacenter

The issue compliments a separate Green IT publication released by Microsoft earlier this year for strategic architects: The Architecture Journal – Green IT Computing.

Enjoy!