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Windows Optimized Desktop Toolkit 2010

Helping IT pros plan, deliver, operate, and manage the right desktop technologies for end users across the organization.

 

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Application Virtualization (App-V) Dashboard - Now Available!

The Application Virtualization (App-V) Dashboard helps you keep track of the usage, health, and compliance of your virtualized applications—in near-real time!

Using the Dashboard's built-in charts, gauges, and tables, you can track any App-V dataset. The Dashboard can be installed in minutes, and it's easy to customize to meet the unique needs of each organization.

Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant

icon: DirectAccess Connectivity AssistantThe Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) helps organizations reduce the cost of supporting DirectAccess users, and significantly improve their connectivity experience.

DCA informs mobile users of their connectivity status at all times; provides tools to help them reconnect on their own if problems arise; and creates diagnostics to help mobile users provide IT staff with key information if necessary—all to help customers operate with more efficiency, and at a lower cost.

Windows Optimized Desktop Toolkit 2010

image: Windows® Optimized Desktop Toolkit 2010Organizations today have to balance the need to control, manage, and secure their desktop infrastructure, while giving users the power and flexibility they need to be productive.

The Windows Optimized Toolkit 2010 (WODT 2010) is designed to help organizations achieve that "right balance".

WODT 2010 includes tools and guidance to help organizations plan, deliver, operate and manage a desktop infrastructure that best meets the needs of IT and those of users.

Plan

Identify the best desktop infrastructure for different users
The Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios (WODS) guide helps you choose the best desktop infrastructure for five different worker scenarios: office workers, mobile workers, task workers, contractors, and those working from home. Download WODS

Design an optimized, secure desktop infrastructure
Check out the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides for step-by-step guidance on planning and designing the right desktop infrastructure for your organization. You can also view videos about the Optimized Desktop. Download the IPD guides for the Optimized Desktop | Watch the videos

Assess existing desktop infrastructure
Do you know what platforms and applications are running in your environment? The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is designed to help you quickly assess your existing environment, so that you can effectively plan your move to an optimized desktop environment. Download the MAP Toolkit

Deliver

Automatically deploy desktop and server infrastructure across the organization
The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT) Update 1 is your go-to tool to quickly and efficiently deploy an optimized desktop infrastructure across your organization. Download MDT 2010 Update 1

Automatically deploy security baselines across the organization
Customize and deploy the right security configurations for your environment with the Security Compliance Manager tool. Use the tool to help efficiently manage the security and compliance process for Microsoft applications and Windows client and server operating systems, including Windows 7. Download SCM

Operate and Manage

Keep track of the usage, health, and compliance of your virtualized applications—in near-real time!
Using the Application Virtualization Dashboard's built-in charts, gauges, and tables, you can track any App-V dataset. The Dashboard can be installed in minutes, and it's easy to customize to meet the unique needs of each organization. Download the App-V Dashboard

Reduce support costs, improve mobile user satisfaction, maintain security
The Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) helps you lower the costs of supporting mobile users, and significantly improve mobile users' connectivity experience. DCA informs mobile users of their connectivity status at all times; provides tools to help them reconnect on their own if problems arise; and creates diagnostics to help mobile users provide IT staff with key information if necessary—all to help customers operate with more efficiency, and at a lower cost. Download DCA

WODT 2010 Solution Accelerators

Plan

Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
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Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides

IPD Guide for DirectAccess
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IPD Guide for App-V
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IPD Guide for MED-V
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IPD Guide for Forefront Unified Access Gateway
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IPD Guide for Windows User State Virtualization
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Deliver

Windows 7 Security Baseline
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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010) Update 1
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Security Baseline
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Operate and Manage

Application Virtualization (App-V) Dashboard
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Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA)
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MOF Reliability Workbook for Microsoft Application Virtualization
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MOF Reliability Workbook for User State Virtualization
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