Manage Your Windows Desktop Environment

Reduce your Desktop Management Support Cost

The main goal for MDOP is, in short, to allow Microsoft to provide new management technologies on a more agile schedule, rather than being tied to new operating system releases. MDOP enhances the manageability of Windows, streamline your business, and drives down desktop total cost of ownership (TCO). Applications can be transformed into dynamically delivered services with Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly Microsoft Softgrid Application Virtualization)

 

There are five key technologies in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance:

• Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization and Streaming
• Microsoft Asset Inventory Service
• Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management
• Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset
• Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring

Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly known as SoftGrid)
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 be integrated and managed within Microsoft SMS.

Microsoft Asset Inventory Service
Reduces application management lifecycle TCO through advanced software inventory scanning and by translating inventory data into useful, administrator-friendly information. The tool is an easily administered, Internet hosted service.

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.

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.

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.