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Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance is a dynamic desktop solution that reduces application deployment costs, enables delivery of applications as services, and allows for better management and control of enterprise desktop environments such as Microsoft Windows Vista.
MDOP extends the benefits of Software Assurance by providing advanced technologies that will:
Take Control of the Desktop
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.
Accelerate Desktop Deployment, Management and Responsiveness
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.
Transform Software into Centrally Managed Services - A Dynamic Infrastructure
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.
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack Technologies
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Microsoft Open License |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
Microsoft Asset Inventory Service will release to the web with links via the MDOP download and CD media kit at the end of 2007.
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.
To Place an Order or for More Information,
CONTACT: Your Account Manager or Zones Licensing Business Desk 800.418.9663 or email at software.licensing@zones.com
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