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.

Improve the way you manage enterprise-wide desktop environments - 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.

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

Download the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance data sheet

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Download the magazine article: "At Last Desktop Management Becomes Truly Manageable"

Download IDC whitepaper: Improving Desktop Management with Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack

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