Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance
Through our software we help 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.
It includes the following Microsoft technologies:
Microsoft Asset Inventory Service – comprehensive view of your enterprise desktop software environment. Also helps you stay in compliance with licensing.
Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization – turns Windows applications into centrally managed virtual services that are delivered to any desktop or laptop client worldwide.
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 – accelerates desktop repair.
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. It is also agentless.
For more information on MDOP, go to the following URL: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/enterprise/mdopoverview.mspx
