Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
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_screenshot.png) Screenshot of Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset, one of the components of this software suite | |
| Original author(s) | Microsoft Corporation |
| Initial release | 1 April 2008 |
| Stable release | 2011 R2 / 1 August 2011 |
| Platform | IA-32 and x64 |
| Type | System software |
| License | Proprietary commercial software; available through volume licensing, TechNet subscription or MSDN subscription |
| Website | www.microsoft.com/mdop |
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a suite of utilities for Microsoft Windows customers who have subscribed to Microsoft Software Assurance program. It aims to brings easier manageability and monitoring of enterprise desktops, emergency recovery, desktop virtualization and application virtualization.
Components
Diagnostics and recovery
Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT), formerly Emergency Repair Disk Commander (ERD Commander), is a set of tools that helps diagnose an offline copy of Microsoft Windows. It comes on a bootable disc and is run during computer startup. It can uninstall installed hotfixes, perform crash analysis, recover deleted files and access System Restore's restore checkpoints on the offline operating system in an environment similar to Windows graphical user interface.
Microsoft DaRT is a successor of ERD Commander, which was part of the Winternals Administrator Pack from Winternals. ERD Commander later became a Microsoft property with its acquisition of Winternals on July 17, 2006.
Microsoft DaRT is based on Windows Preinstallation Environment. The tool set includes:
Network administration
- Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM)
- Provides enhanced management capabilities for group policy. It integrates with the Group Policy Configuration MMC snap-in and adds change control, offline editing, and delegation capabilities. Change control tracks and manages changes to Group Policy Objects (GPOs). It presents a virtual vault which houses the GPOs. To make any changes, a GPO must be checked out of the vault and the changed version checked in. The system enforces the latest version of the GPO and archives the older version, which can be restored back if need arises. Offline editing capabilities allow GPOs to be edited without a live connection to the network and Active Directory. The changes are merged on the next connection. AGPM also adds delegation capability, where the responsibility of managing the Group Policy can be divided among different administrators. Each administrator is concerned with only a certain set of GPOs, which can then be administered independent of others. Optionally, it can be configured so that changes are reviewed by other administrators before being enforced. Advanced Group Policy Management is based on GPOVault, a product by DesktopStandard Corporation which Microsoft acquired in October 2006.
- Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM)
- A tool for managing, enforcing and monitoring BitLocker drive encryption across an entire organization from a center location. MBAM consists of administration console which can be access using a web browser, as well as an agent which must be installed on every computer in the organization, either manually or using Active Directory.
- Microsoft Asset Inventory Service (AIS)
- A hosted service which tracks the usage of all software across the computers connected to the network, identified by name and vendor. It tracks and manages in real-time which users are using what application and the licenses associated with each. It can also generate usage reports.
Virtualization
- Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)
- An application virtualization and application streaming platform that allows clients to run applications locally via on demand streaming from a centralized server. This makes sure that all clients run the application with the same configuration. App-V also allows standalone virtualized applications to run locally on the client.
- Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)
- A desktop virtualization solution: It turns a physical server computer into multiple logical virtual computers that run their own operating systems and applications. User connect to these new machines over the network via thin clients, computers that are just powerful enough to connect to the MED-V server. Microsoft advertises MED-V as a compatibility solution that allows enterprises to run legacy applications inside virtual machines, similar to what Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode do.
Releases
References
Further reading
External links
- Official website
- Official blog
- MDOP on Microsoft TechNet
- DaRT documentations on Microsoft Download Center
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- Annual Revenue:
$62.484 billion USD (2010) - Employees: 89,000 (2010)
- Stock Symbol: MSFT
- Website: www.microsoft.com
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