TechEd 2007 Day One: Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack Update


Posted by Alex Heaton on Monday, June 04, 2007 6:05 AM 6 Comments

Greetings from Orlando, Florida, the home of Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, and TechEd 2007-Microsoft's largest conference for IT pros and developers. Throughout the week you can keep up with the latest news and get some of the training at http://www.virtualteched.com/.

Back in October 2006 I introduced a new desktop management solution for Windows PCs called the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. The demand for  these tools has been incredible and more than 1 million licenses have been sold already.

For those not familiar with the Optimization Pack, it is a set of desktop management tools available as an additional subscription through Microsoft's Software Assurance licensing program that enables customers to increase desktop manageability, reduce the total cost of ownership, and improve overall infrastructure optimization. It includes:

  • SoftGrid Application Virtualization, with the capability to virtualize and stream an application to the desktop. One customer already using SoftGrid is Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, which estimates that SoftGrid enabled them to save over $1,000,000 in software deployment and support-related activities.
  • Advanced Group Policy Management, which provide workflow and change management capabilities to the management of Group Policy objects.
  • Asset Inventory Service, which provides reporting of software assets used by an organization.
  • Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset, which has the capability to recover a Windows machine that has crashed and won't boot even through safe mode.

And this week we are announcing the addition of a 5th component, System Center Desktop Error Monitoring, which gives IT professionals a central way to analyze data from OS and Application crashes and hangs, so they can more quickly identify and resolve problems.

More news out this week is that the first versions of all of the components of the Desktop Optimization Pack will be available for download on July 1st along with the Windows Vista compatible version of SoftGrid.

You can learn more about all of these tools at the Windows Vista Web site. And stay tuned to the blog this week for more Windows Vista news from TechEd.

- Alex

JUN 04
 

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JUN 05
 

Posted by Sebastian_Foss

I love the Desktop Optimization Pack... it helped me to save a lot of time..deploying desktops etc.

Thanks for the update!

Sebastian Foss

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JUN 07
 

Posted by Views on Windows Vista

We've sold 1,000,000 licenses for MDOP since October 2006 - so it must be pretty important right? So
JUN 07
 

Posted by someone

Will all components of this run on Vista Ultimate as well? Or only Vista Enterprise? Will it be available on Microsoft Download Center or Volume License downloads?
JUN 08
 

Posted by The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer

Microsoft has added a fifth piece to the Desktop Optimization Pack, System Center Desktop Error Reporting
JUN 10
 

Posted by Alex Heaton

in response to the question from Someone above:

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack will support Windows XP as well as Windows Vista.  SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.2 will support Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Enterprise.   Asset Inventory Service, Desktop Error Monitoring and Advanced Group Policy Management will also supportl support Windows XP, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Enterprise.  The Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset will only support Windows XP with Windows Vista support coming in the next release.

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack can be downloaded from the Microsoft Volume License Site.  As of July 1, the Desktop Optimization Pack download will include SoftGrid 4.2, Advanced Group Policy Management 2.5, Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0, Desktop Error Monitoring 3.0 and Asset Inventory Service Beta.  Until July 1, only SoftGrid 4.1 and Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0 will be available.
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