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Editor's Notes

• #46: The Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance is a suite of 6 technologies that solves key desktop manageability issues for your customers. It is an annual subscription available only to customers with Software Assurance on their Windows desktops. ��Note to Presenter: you can take the option of staying at a high level on MDOP benefits (without using the 6 slides about the individual components from the appendix) or spend just a little time here and go into more depth with the slides for each of the individual componentsThe Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack��or MDOP helps in every step of accelerating and managing desktop deployments.�� ��Asset Inventory Service helps��your customers understand what software is in theirdesktop environment. It scans and analyzes all the applications on desktops. Then,Advanced Group Policy Management helps customers ensure that users and computerson their network aren’t affected by Group Policy changes that may have an unexpected adverse impact.�� It helps to easily manage Group Policy through a change management and role-based delegation system increasing the reliability of Group Policy as a desktop management tool.��Managing applications enterprise-wide is complex and costly.�� With Microsoft Application Virtualization, you can manage applications in a more centrally controlled way that benefits both end users and IT. Because applications are transformed into virtual services that are never locally installed, they are available instantly to users anywhere.�� Desktop administration for deploying, patching,��updating��and terminating applications is simpler and requires much fewer IT resources. The newest component of MDOP, Enterprise Desktop Virtualization also aids desktop administration by enhancing deployment and management of Virtual PC images on a Windows Desktop and providing a seamless user experience on a Virtual PC environment independent of the local desktop configuration and operating system.��One of the more difficult things for IT to resolve is when a system or application crashes or hangs.�� End-users don’t typically notify IT, because of this; IT has limited visibility to these issues and can’t proactively resolve them.�� Through agent -less crash monitoring, System Center Desktop Error Monitoring helps IT to centrally monitor those crashes. It even helps IT identify probable cause or even a resolution, to pro-actively manage your environment.��The Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset includes tools that help repair and recover unbootable systems. In doing so, it minimizes downtime for the end user and recovers important files and data, so they can continue their business effectively.
• #47: Building on the strong fundamentals, Windows 7 delivers the key capabilities that SMB customers have asked for –enabling user productivity and giving users anytime, anywhere access to information they need to get their work done; while providing tools for IT to support their business securely, protect corporate data, achieve cost efficiencies, and take advantage of the virtualization trends in the client computing arena.Windows 7 and Windows Optimized Desktop overall deliver customer value in each of these areas:Access to Information from anywhereEnhancing SecurityStreamlining PC managementAccess to Information from anywhere. Windows Optimized Desktop enables user access to their data and applications anywhere, anytime, while making it easy for IT to provision just the right applications and data to the user. This is enabled by technologies such as Application Virtualization, roaming user profiles and folder redirection, allowing delivery of all the user’s assigned corporate applications along with their application settings and data, online and offline.Windows 7, a part Windows Optimized Desktop, takes information access to the whole next level, allowing users to access corporate resources they need to get their work done in the office, from the road or in the branch with capabilities such as DirectAccess, BranchCache and Windows 7 federated search.DirectAccess. As mobile users, we usually have to rely on VPN connections to access our corporate applications and data, and we all know it can be cumbersome and require wait. Microsoft customer research shows that over 60% of mobile users name the ease of use as a number one area of remote connectivity that needs to be improved. Windows 7, along with networking technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2, provides DirectAccess, a networking technology which enables the user to seamlessly access corporate network resources when on the Internet, without having to create a VPN connection. This will reduce disruption and save time, all working to increase user productivity. BrachCache. According to a study by Nemertes Research, 91% of employees work away from the corporate headquarters, with the overall number of branch offices going up by about 7% every year. If any of you work from a branch office, you know how long it takes to access files from your corporate headquarters. Windows 7 can help solve that problem and increase user productivity by caching a copy of files locally, so when other users access the file, they access the local one instead – no more waiting for that long download.Federated Search. According to analysts’ studies, information workers spend 15-30% of their time looking for information, while about 60% of these users express a need to be able to find data easier across multiple data sources. In Windows 7, users can search across different SharePoint sites, while initiating search easily from Windows explorer and getting consistent view of search results, similar to how Windows 7 presents results from searching on the user’s PC.Enhancing Security. Windows Vista is the most secure client operating system on the market today, having far fewer vulnerabilities discovered during its first year in the market than any other commercial or open source OS out there today, according to Windows Vista one- year vulnerability report (vista-one-year-vuln-report.pdf)and the Security Intelligence Report. ��Microsoft Asset Inventory Service or AIS (part of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack) complements OS security and allows customers to further improve compliance of Windows Optimized Desktop, as it provides IT organizations with the comprehensive view of the enterprise desktop software environment through advanced software inventory scanning of company desktops.��Windows 7, as a part of the next generation Windows Optimized Desktop, builds on Windows Vista’s remarkable security foundation, adding advanced capabilities for IT to protect corporate data and enable low-cost compliance. Let’s take a look at a couple of the Windows 7 key security features.��Bitlocker To Go. Analysts predict there will be over 1 billion USB flash drives by 2010, with the average USB flash drive holding almost 4 GB of data and costing less than $10. The scary part is that unlike losing a laptop, a user never seems to report, or sometimes even notice, the loss of a USB flash drive! Windows 7 provides the ability to encrypt removable storage devices, such as USB drives, via BitLocker To Go, making sure the data is secure in the case if device is lost or stolen. AppLocker. Human error can create security risks that are almost as high as the ones from the malicious intent in some cases. To mitigate such concerns, companies are increasing their spend on application white-listing technologies, with spending on such Identity and Access Management (IAM) software expected to reach $5.3B in 2012 according to IDC. Windows 7 AppLocker capability provides a flexible mechanism that allows administrators to specify via Group Policy exactly what is allowed to run on their systems and gives users the ability to run applications, installation programs, and scripts that administrators have explicitly granted permission to execute. ��Streamlining PC management. The state of economy, financial crisis and tightening budgets put cost efficiencies on the top of IT departments’ priorities. IT organizations are looking for ways to help their companies save costs and get tangible value for business from their IT spend. According to the analysts firm IDC, “…the financial crisis has pushed even further the necessity to become ever more efficient. “��Improving desktop management practices and optimizing the IT and desktop infrastructure have been proven to help SMB customers achieve cost savings of hundreds of dollars per PC per year. Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, part of the Windows Optimized Desktop, offers customers advanced tools and technologies to adopt best practices, optimize desktop infrastructure, achieve efficiency and cost savings. Windows 7, a key part of the next generation Windows Optimized desktop makes managing and deploying desktops, laptops, and virtual environments far easier, while enabling IT professionals to use the same tools and skills they use today with Windows Vista. New scripting and automation capabilities, based on Windows PowerShell 2.0, reduce the costs of managing and troubleshooting PCs. For businesses making the leap to client virtualization, Windows 7 helps them more easily maintain virtual machine images, and provide a richer user experience over remote connections.