| Management | Configuration Management | Configuration Granularity | Advanced Management | |||||||||
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| Product Feature | Desktop Authority | Native Group Policies | |
| Desktop Lifecycle Overview | |||
| OS Provisioning
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| Application Packaging
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| Application Deployment | |
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| Desktop Configuration Provisioning | |
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| Turnkey and Custom Reporting | |
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| Remote Management and Control | |
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| Secure Wipe of Data at end of lifecycle | |
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| Client Support | |||
| Supports Windows 95-Vista | |
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| Only Supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista | |
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| Environment Support | |||
| Supports NT/2000/2003 Domains | |
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| Only Supports 2000/2003 Domains | |
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| Management | |||
| Enterprise View of Desktop Management | |
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| Enterprise View of Desktop Configuration | |
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| Limited “per-policy” View of Desktop Configuration | |
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| Role Based Administration to the element level | |
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| Application Deployment | |||
| MSI-based deployment | |
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| Uses replicated MSI Repository for deployment | |
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| Integration with MSI editing solution | |
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| Deployment from local or specified server | |
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