Just in time for Windows 7, today we are announcing the availability of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP ) 2009 R2! If you are an MDOP customer, you can download MDOP 2009 R2 through Microsoft Volume Licensing Site (MVLS) . For others who wish...

Today I am excited to announce that Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2009 R2 will be released in late October 2009 and will add Windows 7 support for all components, except for MED-V. Server and management components will support Windows 2008...

I am happy to announce that the MDOP 2011 R2 is generally available today and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Volume Licensing website, MSDN and TechNet . This version of MDOP includes Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) which...

Hello, I’m Dave Trupkin, Senior Product Manager for App-V and MED-V, the two Desktop Virtualization products in MDOP. Today is a very special day for everyone on the MDOP team here at Microsoft, and especially those who work on App-V and MED-V....

As announced on the Windows for your Business blog , Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6, including App-V for RDS, is now publicly available as part of MDOP 2010!!! In addition, MED-V 1.0 SP1 RC for Windows 7 is now available! App-V 4...

Just over a week ago we announced the new version of the Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT), one of our most popular tools in MDOP. Today I’m happy to announce that the Beta has been released for public download . For an overview of the...

Today I’d like to share with you the immediate availability of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) for use with the Windows 7 Beta and more roadmap information around App-V 4.6 . We’ve been listening to customers who want to see us support...

Today, I am happy to announce immediate availability of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 Beta. At TechEd EMEA we announced our commitment to ship the next version of App-V in H1 2010. In March of this year, as part of the MDOP 2009 launch...

A message from my colleague, Ran Oelgiesser, Senior Product Manager for MED-V: In May 2008, Microsoft closed the acquisition of the desktop virtualization vendor Kidaro, which soon became Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) – the...

Hi, I’m Dave Trupkin, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) and Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), the two desktop virtualization components of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). ...

As part of our promise to maximize productivity, manageability and TCO for enterprise desktops, we are excited to announce our new version of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) , available for purchase to Software Assurance customers. MDOP 2009...

We are pleased to announce that the beta versions of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 and a new MDOP product Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) are now available for download from Microsoft Connect. UE-V is an enterprise...

I'm relaying the following post on behalf of my colleague Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise: We’ve talked several times, most recently in May , and earlier in January , about our vision for the Optimized...

Today we announced the availability of MDOP 2010 Refresh. As planned , the update for MDOP 2010 includes: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0 SP1 - now available for production deployment on Windows 7 Microsoft Application...

Just a week after my colleague Shanen Boettcher wrote about virtualization and its role in the Optimized Desktop, specifically announcing the RTM of Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, commonly called “App-V”, I’m proud to let you know that the...

This morning on the Windows for your Business blog , we announced a new product that will come to MDOP in a future release called Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM). MBAM will be available through the Microsoft Desktop Optimization...

In November 2009 we ran a small scale beta of the 2.0 version of the Asset Inventory Service (AIS) and got a lot of feedback on the product which has helped us get to feature complete. We are interested in getting even more input from the community, so...

Today, we are happy to announce that the DaRT 8 beta has been released for public download. For more detailed information on this announcement, please read the recent Windows for Your Business Blog and Springboard Series Blog . This is a public...

I just returned from Las Vegas, where, this morning I attended Brad Anderson’s keynote address at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) where he announced the beta release of Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM). It was great...

In my last several blog posts, I’ve used a lot of words to tell you why I think the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a great way to optimize Windows 7 deployment. I’ve provided links along the way, of course, but I really haven’t...

You can find a series of new step by step videos for both Advance Group Policy Management (AGPM) and the Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) on the MDOP video page . If your new to AGPM or DaRT, or just looking to get up to speed on a particular...

Following last week’s announcement about the release of MDOP 2009 R2 many of you have asked for more information and technical details. To help you learn more about the cool new features and Win 7 support for AGPM 4.0 and DaRT 6.5 we have now posted the...

I mentioned last week that we would have some announcements posted to the blog. Well, as you heard today at TechEd IT Pro in Barcelona, Spain - Application Virtualization (App-V) will support 64-bit applications and platforms in H1 2010, with TAP availability...

If you have been following the MDOP blog for a while now, you have noticed that we have had a few beta releases of the Asset Inventory Service. Over these beta releases we got a lot of feedback on the product which has helped get us to today, where we...

As you might have noticed we have been posting mostly product announcements to this blog and less technical content. Some of you might be wondering where the more technical info is being posted, so we thought it would be best to take a minute to layout...