Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
Windows Vista Enterprise helps global organizations and enterprises with complex IT infrastructures lower IT costs, reduce risk, and stay connected. The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance further extends this value by reducing application deployment costs, enabling delivery of applications as services, and allowing for better management and control of enterprise desktop environments. Together these technologies deliver a highly cost-effective and flexible Windows desktop management solution.
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance is an add-on subscription license available to Software Assurance customers. It uses innovative technologies to help reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the Windows desktop by accelerating operating system and application management and enhancing IT responsiveness and end-user uptime. It will enable you to better control the desktop, accelerate and simplify desktop deployments and management, and create a dynamic infrastructure by turning software into centrally managed services.
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Download the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance data sheet XPS (291 KB) PDF (207 KB) *
Download the FAQs XPS (313 KB) PDF (145 KB) *
Download the magazine article, At Last Desktop Management Becomes Truly Manageable XPS (392 KB) PDF (174 KB) *
Download IDC whitepaper: Improving Desktop Management with Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack XPS (458 KB) PDF (195 KB) *
Download Wipro TCO study whitepaper XPS (1.94 MB) PDF (3.72 MB) *
View case studies that show how customers have improved PC manageability with Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack technologies
Ease change management and roll backs, enhance group policy management, reduce downtime, and provide end users with on-demand access to specified applications.
Provide users with a rich client experience while enabling you to manage desktop and application permissions, Group Policy Objects (GPO's), and virtual applications centrally from a console.
Applications are delivered on-demand to clients, improving the time it takes to recover users from desktop failures.
Centralized, policy-based management—including deployment, patching, updating, and termination of virtualized applications—is intelligently managed for all types of users via policies and administered through a single console.
Real-time application usage tracking makes it easy to determine how applications are or are not being used so you can better manage license compliance.
Software inventory management enables IT to better manage and control the software environment and reduce TCO.
OS images are consolidated and stabilized because applications are decoupled from the OS and delivered on-demand.
Simplify desktop deployments and migrations with application virtualization and streaming, reducing end-user downtime, decreasing IT management costs, and increasing IT agility:
Virtualization enables applications to run as network services—without ever being installed—on-demand. Applications run reliably without conflicts, increasing user uptime and accelerating deployments and OS migrations.
Application compatibility conflicts and regression testing are eliminated by isolating all key components of the application from the desktop.
IT help desk call volume is dramatically reduced by eliminating application conflicts. Users have a more reliable desktop experience.
Troubleshooting tools monitor and pinpoint problems, recover and repair PCs, and post-crash analysis provides intelligence that helps prevent future PC failures.
Applications are universally available to users in multiple client environments including desktops, laptops, and terminal servers, with a centrally managed infrastructure.
The application management lifecycle is simplified and accelerated; IT responsiveness and user uptime are significantly improved.
Build the foundation for a dynamic infrastructure:
A dynamic enterprise is created through a virtual IT environment where applications can be delivered and managed as on-demand virtual services.
Users can get their applications from any Windows desktop (enabling free-seating, hoteling), just like a web page.
IT can easily assign new computers since they can offer a generic image to all users.
IT can easily replace hardware since applications and users are not bound to specific computers.
Business continuity planning is simplified because users can go to any computer on the network and instantly get to their own applications.1
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance facilitates accelerated deployment and manageability of Windows through these innovative technologies-available only to Windows Software Assurance customers.
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 | Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization | Enables you to deploy software applications that are never installed to minimize regression testing, yet follow users anywhere, on demand. It turns Windows applications into centrally managed virtual services that are delivered to any desktop or laptop client worldwide. It can also be integrated and managed within Microsoft SMS. | Get the data sheet. XPS (283 KB) PDF (201 KB) * Get the Application Virtualization: The Next Frontier white paper. XPS (786 KB) PDF (3.04 MB) * Take a tour Learn more | |
| Microsoft Asset Inventory Service | Reduces application management lifecycle TCO through advanced software inventory scanning and by translating inventory data for more than 430,000 titles into useful, admin-friendly information. The tool is an easily administered, Internet hosted service. | Get the data sheet. XPS (379 KB) PDF (192 KB) * Learn more | |
| Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management | Helps IT take control of the desktop through effective change management and roll-backs via GPOs and a robust role-based administration and delegation model. | Get the data sheet. XPS (320 KB) PDF (200 KB) * Learn more | |
| Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset | Allows you to quickly repair unbootable or locked-out systems, restore lost data, remove malware from infected systems while the system is safely offline using existing antivirus software, and diagnose system and network issues. | Get the data sheet. XPS (333 KB) PDF (218 KB) * Learn more | |
| Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring | Enables you to proactively manage problems with applications and system components that crash or cause live PCs to hang. This is an enterprise-ready, scalable, low-cost deployment solution for granular error filtering and alerting. It identifies the impact, probable cause and resolution for failures—making desktops more stable and reliable. | Get the data sheet. XPS (387 KB) PDF (162 KB) * Learn more | |
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The availability of the components within the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance (MDOP) is as follows through Microsoft Volume Licensing Service (MVLS):
Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.2
Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management 2.5
Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0
Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring 3.0
Microsoft Asset Inventory Service 1.0 beta
Microsoft Asset Inventory Service will release to the web with links via the MDOP download and CD media kit at the end of 2007.
To learn more, contact your Reseller or local Microsoft Account Manager.
1 Using Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance does not change licensing requirements for applications delivered and managed through this solution. Refer to your application license terms.
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Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware.
