AppSense Environment Manager enables low-cost, standard desktop images to be used to deliver fully configured and personalized desktops to all employees. This ensures maximum user adoption from a standard base image, further reducing desktop management cost, as well the complexity and risk associated with maintaining a large desktop estate.

Any degradation in user experience reflects negatively on IT. No matter how a desktop or application is delivered to a user, ensuring the environment reacts quickly to user actions is key to providing a smooth quality of service and meeting user expectation. Only by managing CPU, Memory and Disk by assigning resource to applications and users can a consistent level of performance be achieved.

Regardless of how a users environment is delivered, it is essential that users receive only the applications they require and cannot introduce unknown executables into the environment. Delivery may be through presentation virtualization, desktop virtualization, OS and application streaming, personal computer, notebook or any combination of the above.

AppSense Management Center is the framework that enables AppSense Management Suite to be used across the entire enterprise. AppSense Management Suite is a user environment management solution that provides policy and personalization management as well managing entitlement to applications and system resources.

With the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) it's now easier than ever to manage your organization's desktop infrastructure effectively. MDOP is a dynamic desktop solution, available only to Software Assurance customers, which reduces complexity while increasing desktop manageability, and that helps reduce your total cost of ownership.

·     Microsoft Application Virtualization turns applications into centrally managed services that are never installed, never conflict and are streamed on-demand

·     Microsoft Asset Inventory Service translates software service into business intelligence and instantly depicts a complete portfolio of the desktop software

·     Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset help reduce downtime and accelerates desktop repair, recovery, and troubleshooting of unbootable Windows-based Systems

·     Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management provides governance and control over group policy through robust change management and role-based administration tools

·     Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring enables proactive problem management by analyzing and reporting on application and system crashes

·     Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization enhances deployment and management of Virtual PC images on a Windows–based Desktop while also providing a seamless user experience on a Virtual PC environment independent of the local desktop configuration and operating system

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 delivers end-to-end service management of applications and IT services running across your datacenter fabric, providing you greater control and insight into the health and performance of your Microsoft, UNIX, and Linux servers, and the workloads running on them. With Operations Manager 2007 R2, you can reduce the cost of managing your datacenter, and assure delivery of IT services to expected and agreed levels.

Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager comprehensively assesses, deploys and updates servers, client computers and devices – across physical, virtual, distributed and mobile environments.

Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 enables reliable and rapid backup and recovery – delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers.

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