Compucom Software Product Details - MDOP - Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)

App-V is the only application virtualization technology on the market that benefits from Windows 7 capabilities such as the new User Interface, AppLocker, BitLocker ToGo, and BranchCache, enabling faster delivery, better user experience, improved manageability, and increased control over access to applications.

Maintain Windows 7 user experience and productivity as virtual applications behave just as regularly installed applications. For instance, users can pin applications to the taskbar and leverage jumplists to navigate.
Enforce compliance of virtual applications with AppLocker policies, regardless of how they are delivered, and provide consistent policy management for all application types.
Virtual applications traverse the WAN only once and are available to users faster through local BranchCache points,eliminating the need for an IIS Server in every branch.
IT administrators can confidently and securely deliver virtual applications on a USB drive, as the associated licenses are protected against unauthorized use. Only authorized users have access to the applications, including remote users who may not have connectivity to corporate network.

Seamless integration with System Center Configuration Manager workflows enables IT administrators to manage physical and virtual applications through a single management experience. IT administrators can follow known processes and workflow for delivering virtual applications to their end users.

This approach reduces the learning curve and enables IT to deliver applications more quickly. IT can continue to realize value from its existing infrastructure by taking advantage of Configurations Manager’s scalability and enabling distribution points to stream virtual applications, which eliminates the need for a separate Microsoft Application Virtualization infrastructure. Using Configuration Manager, virtual applications can be delivered to either machines or users. Administrators can inventory virtual applications, meter the virtual application licenses, and deliver virtual applications as part of Operating System Deployment Task Sequences.

Together, Microsoft Application Virtualization and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 provide a full PC life cycle management solution for deploying and managing both physical and virtual applications for enterprise customers. When using System Center Operations Manager, administrators can deploy the App-V Management Pack to enable monitoring of all App-V Server Infrastructure components. This provides a consistent mechanism for managing App-V infrastructure alongside other Microsoft solutions.

Managing desktops across an enterprise is often time-consuming, complex, and costly. IT organizations face difficult PC manageability tasks on a daily basis. The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, an essential part of the Windows 7 Optimized Desktop solution, currently includes six technologies that help reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a Windows 7 desktop.

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack virtualization technologies enhance application deployment and updates, and resolve application incompatibility. Additional MDOP technologies increase IT responsiveness and user uptime through robust diagnostics and monitoring capabilities, and improve IT control by providing asset tracking and group policy change management.

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is a suite of management, deployment, and virtualization tools. Available as a subscription to our Software Assurance customers, it includes six technologies:

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) enables deployment and management of Microsoft Virtual PC to address key enterprise scenarios, primarily resolving application compatibility with a new version of Windows.
Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) turns applications into centrally managed services that are never installed, never conflict, and are streamed on demand to end users.
Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) enhances governance and control over Group Policy through robust change management, versioning and role-based administration.
Microsoft Asset Inventory Service (AIS) is a hosted service that collects software inventory data and translates it into actionable business intelligence.
Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring (DEM) provides insights into application and operating system failures, allowing helpdesk to be more proactive in managing PC problems, without installing an agent to the endpoint.
Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) reduces downtime by accelerating troubleshooting, repair and data recovery of unbootable Windows-based desktops.

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is available as an add-on subscription to customers that have purchased Windows Client SA. Pricing is at approximately $10/ desktop/year for Select Level A.* Microsoft also offers customers the ability to license MDOP through their platform Enterprise Agreement (EA). There are two EA SKUs that already include MDOP: Professional Desktop with MDOP and Enterprise Desktop with MDOP. Customers have the option to purchase as many subscription licenses, not to exceed the number of desktops covered under their Windows Client SA. Coverage co-terminates as MDOP is a non-perpetual/fixed-term offering. We recommend customers purchase the subscription on the same enrollment as the covered Client EA/SA desktops.

MDOP is available to purchase in the EA, EA subscription, Select, Academic Select, Open Value, Campus Agreement, and School Agreement volume license programs. An additional discount is available off the annualized subscription price for company-wide coverage.

Clients who purchase OEM versions of Windows 7 have 90-days to purchase SA and MDOP after the initial purchase of the OEM license.

*actual price may vary