Microsoft Announces Desktop Optimization Pack
Today it was officially announced that Microsoft will combine the recently acquired tools from Softricity, Winternals, and Desktop Standard into a single package that you can purchase for ~$50 per client. What this package gets you is SoftGrid application virtualization, group policy management/enhancement tools from DesktopStandard, and the remote repair tools from Wintenals. For this price you could not get even the tools from DesktopStandard, the backend for the SoftGrid used to run about $15,000, that is now free, it also integrates with SMS for reporting and application deployment.
This is a huge benefit at a very small cost.
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Anthony Clendenen
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Change 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 applications for which they are assigned:
- Lock down desktop permissions and Group Policy Objects (GPOs) while the virtual applications still execute with centralized control of application permissions.
- 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 customers 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 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.
- Application management lifecycle is simplified and accelerated; IT responsiveness and end-user uptime are significantly improved.
Transform Software into Centrally Managed Services; A Dynamic Infrastructure
Build the foundation for a dynamic infrastructure:
- Dynamic enterprise is created through a virtual IT environment where applications can be delivered and managed as on-demand virtual services.
- End-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.
- Facilitates business continuity planning by allowing users 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:
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Microsoft SoftGrid |
Microsoft Asset Inventory Service |
Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management |
Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset |
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.
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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, hosted service with no client installation.
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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.
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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.
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