DOP - The Optimized Desktop for Windows Vista Enterprise

Windows Vista Enterprise, combined with technologies such as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), provides powerful tools that help you optimize your organization's desktop infrastructure.

Operating system

A key component of the Optimized Desktop, Windows Vista Enterprise is the premium business operating system for organizations with complex IT infrastructures.

Windows Vista Enterprise Deployment and Management Tools

Management and deployment tools such as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) enhance the manageability of Windows, streamlines your business, and drives down desktop TCO.

With Windows Vista Enterprise, organizations can reduce the cost of desktop deployment with hardware- and language-independent images, configuration and deployment tools, and best practice guidance. And organizations can use Windows Vista Enterprise to simplify desktop configuration management with rich Group Policy settings as well as reduce support costs and downtime with diagnostics and troubleshooting capabilities.

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack further extends this 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.

Flexible Licensing Benefits and Features

Enterprise organizations have to maintain large-scale, complex IT environments. The more extensive and sophisticated their infrastructure becomes, the more they can benefit from flexible desktop deployment solutions.For enterprise early-adopter customers specifically looking to centralize Windows execution or storage, Microsoft provides two new options as part of Windows Vista Enterprise: Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop and Diskless PCs.

Flexible Desktop Computing
Enterprise organizations have to maintain large-scale, complex IT environments. The more extensive and sophisticated their infrastructure becomes, the more they can benefit from flexible desktop deployment solutions.Microsoft offers Windows Vista Enterprise with differentiated features, such as Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption which helps protect data on mobile computers and desktop computers, and

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
for Software Assurance to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of any Windows Vista Enterprise deployment with application virtualization. For customers looking to centralize Windows desktop computers, Terminal Services provides a mature solution with great price performance.For enterprise early-adopter customers specifically looking to centralize Windows execution or storage, Microsoft provides two new options as part of Windows Vista Enterprise: Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop and Diskless PCs.

Windows Vista Enterprise Training and Support Benefits and Features

Software Assurance provides new levels of training and support to keep your IT staff up to date and more efficient.

Desktop Deployment Planning Services
As an IT decision maker, you need to deploy and maintain your software, and you want product migrations to be successful and seamless. Microsoft Desktop Deployment Planning Services can help you lower the cost and complexity of deploying new software and can help you achieve the most cost-effective desktop environment.

24x7 Problem Resolution Support
24x7 Problem Resolution Support is designed to help your IT staff reduce downtime for problem resolution, thereby lowering support costs and freeing up IT resources to deploy additional projects. This Microsoft Software Assurance benefit provides phone support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

TechNet Subscription
Software Assurance provides you convenient online access to Microsoft experts and information about software and technology. With this comprehensive support resource, you can keep technical skills sharp, solve mission critical and day-to-day issues, maintain security more easily, and evaluate new Microsoft technologies without time limits.

Software Assurance Training Voucher
The Software Assurance Training Voucher benefit helps organizations of all sizes achieve greater efficiency through instructor led training courses. As a qualified Microsoft software licensing subscription holder, you receive training vouchers for courses that help IT professionals and developers deploy, migrate, manage, and support your organization’s infrastructure.

Springboard series
As you consider your adoption path to Windows Vista, Microsoft wants to address your questions and known issues as well as offer upfront guidance.

Windows Vista tips and tricks
There are some new features within Windows Vista that can make your employees more productive and more efficient immediately. We have included some tools and resources that they can come back to over the coming weeks and months. Browse through the sections, view a video, and sign up for a webcast. You will also find a section for those responsible for training employees in your company. Explore all the resources at your disposal and see how Windows Vista can help your workforce today.