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The 2014 version of the IT administration tool suite includes an improved BitLocker management component
Microsoft is giving the IT admin crowd an updated toolset for managing encryption with the latest release of its Desktop Optimization Pack, better known as MDOP.
MDOP 2014 has what Microsoft calls “substantial” improvements in managing the Windows BitLocker feature used to encrypt PC and server drives.
The concern on the BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) tool is timely, certain recent high-profile cases of theft of huge quantity of sensitive client data. Encryption has also grow to be a sizzling issue given the worldwide privacy concerns over government snooping into the records of telecommunications and Internet measures of individuals and companies.
The changes, which Microsoft in depth in a blog post on Friday, contain support for Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), a set of computer security requirements for U.S. federal government agencies and contractors.
Version 2.5 of MBAM now lets IT administrators manage key FIPS configuration options for BitLocker for defensive and improving drive data and for recovering passwords.
MBAM 2.5 also gives IT administrators better manage to remotely schedule and trigger the encryption process on their users’ devices, and to require that employees utilize strong BitLocker personal identification numbers (PINs).
The tool also has improved capabilities when installed on Windows Server clusters, including load balancing of its web components and the skill to arrange its databases in SQL Server failover clusters, according to Microsoft.
A different part that was upgraded in MDOP 2014 is the Application Virtualization (App-V) tool, designed to let IT departments store applications in a central server and stream them on demand to multiple user campaign. The new version, App-V 5.0 SP2, improves the process of publishing and uplifting applications and agree to IT administrators to test upgraded applications while retain the original ones in the same device.
MDOP also comprise the User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) and Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit (DART) tools.
MDOP 2014 is available for download for customers who subscribe to
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