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Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack

Windows Desktop Management and Deployment
Enterprise IT infrastructures are increasingly complex to manage. The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance addresses the need to increase manageability and reduce complexity. It is a dynamic desktop solution, available to Software Assurance customers, that employs innovative technologies to increase desktop manageability, reduce the total cost of ownership, and improve overall infrastructure satisfaction.

MDOP is a suite of six technologies:

• Microsoft Application Virtualization turns applications into centrally managed services that are never installed, never conflict and are streamed on-demand
• Microsoft Asset Inventory Service translates software service into business intelligence and instantly depicts a complete portfolio of the desktop software
• Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset reduces downtime and accelerates desktop repair, recovery, and troubleshooting of unbootable Windows-based Systems
• Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management provides governance and control over group policy through robust change management and role-based administration tools
• Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring enables proactive problem management by analyzing and reporting on application and system crashes
• Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization enhances deployment and management of Virtual PC images on a Windows Desktop while also providing a seamless user experience on a Virtual PC environment independent of the local desktop configuration and operating system

Overview Delivering the right balance between agility and control
The Optimized Desktop combines the Windows Vista Enterprise and the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack to provide powerful technologies that help you secure, efficiently manage, and lower the costs of your organization's desktop infrastructure.

Recent news

• New - Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios - Solution Accelerator: To address the need for flexibility in management and cost of the desktop, this new Infrastructure planning and design, Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios relate IT and user business requirements for a flexible, efficient, and managed desktop environment to sets of complementary Microsoft technologies. The guide and supporting tool in this Solution Accelerator use the five standard user scenarios, including Office Worker and Mobile Worker, to map requirements to technologies and help with the selection.
• Better Together: Find out how Windows Server 2008 R2 combined with the new Windows 7 technology can help you enhance the security of your systems, streamline your PC management and allow users to be productive regardless of their location. Click here for more information.
• Over the last 4 years, Microsoft has made substantial changes to Windows Client Software Assurance (SA), including investments in a new Enterprise SKU and a number of acquisitions that led to the creation of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance (MDOP). In light of these changes, customers who previously declined to buy Client SA should re-evaluate their decisions.
• Business benefits overview.
• Anchored by the Windows Vista Enterprise and the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, the Optimized Desktop for Windows boosts productivity of your IT staff and users by simplifying desktop deployment, streamlining application management, and protecting your desktop infrastructure.
• The premium edition of Windows Vista for businesses, Windows Vista Enterprise includes all the features in Windows Vista Business plus extra capabilities designed to help reduce the cost and complexity of deploying and managing corporate PCs. Windows Vista Enterprise provides higher levels of data protection, easier application management, and improved standardization for global operations. Also, Windows Vista Enterprise offers stronger data protection for a growing, mobile workforce, including more protection of sensitive data in the event a mobile PC is lost or stolen.
• Windows Vista Enterprise gives your business an advantage by empowering your most valuable asset—people. The operating system makes it easy for people to communicate, collaborate, and work with greater efficiency and effectiveness, regardless of their location. And Windows Vista Enterprise enhances your organization's ability to find, use, and secure data, meet complex regulatory requirements, and manage information technology costs. It's the heart of any competitive organization's IT desktop investment.

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