Microsoft releases MDOP with support for Windows 10

Microsoft has released updates for its enterprise Desktop Optimisation Pack for Software Assurance customers, aimed at simplifying and supporting Windows deployments.

MDOP 2015 contains improved user experience and application deployment technologies, which have been updated to support Windows 10 including:

• Advanced Group Policy Management,
• Application Virtualization for Windows Desktops,
• User Experience Virtualisation,
• BitLocker Administration and Monitoring,
• Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset,
• Enterprise Desktop Virtualisation.

The set of tools is available as a DVD ISO image for customers with an active subscription to Microsoft Developer Network.

While the desktop Windows 10 operating system was finalised and released in July this year, Microsoft is still working on getting the enterprise equivalents ready, such as Windows Server 2016.

Microsoft's general manager of its operating system group Gabe Aul said on August 10 that a new technical preview of Windows Server 2016 will be released this month, along with the Remote Server Administration Tools - RSAT - with support for Windows 10.

The company also released an update to the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013, again with support for Windows 10.