Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)

What is MDOP?
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance provides 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. It consists of five technologies:

Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization
Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset
Advanced Group Policy Management
System Center Desktop Error Monitoring
Microsoft Asset Inventory Service

Enterprise Desktop Manageability Challenges:

IT staff spends too much time and resources deploying, upgrading, supporting applications
Managing corporate images is tedious and labor-intensive
End-users lose productivity when new applications, upgrades, and patches are deployed
Group policy changes can have an unexpected adverse effect on desktops
Maintaining an inventory of software assets is time consuming and complex
PC crashes impact users' productivity and data integrity

What Enterprises want?

Easier to find and use information
Better connected to enable mobile user workforce
Improve security and legislative compliance
Lower cost to maintain and optimize desktop infrastructure
Provide a superior application experience

How does MDOP address these challenges?

Take control of the desktop
Accelerate desktop deployment, management, and responsiveness
Transform software into centrally managed services