The Ultimate Guide to Desktop Management for Streamlining your Business

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The Ultimate Guide to Desktop Management for Streamlining your Business

Desktop management is a complete strategy for managing all computers of an organization. Contrary to what it says desktop management covers overseeing laptops, other devices for computing. Desktop management is one of the components of system management, which involves the administration of all the elements of an organization’s information systems. Other elements of system management are the management of databases and networks. Traditional desktop management tasks involve the installation and maintenance of hardware, software, spam filtering, and regulating user rights. In the past few years, however, security-related tasks have been an increasingly significant aspect of desktop management. This has led to an increasing part of administrative resources. It has been dedicated to security-related work like managing patches as well as fighting spyware and viruses by limiting greynet apps (programs which are not approved by the corporate office like instant messaging, file-sharing software as well as RSS reader). Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is an industry-standard to manage and keep the track of software and hardware components of a system of personal computers, from a central place. DMI was designed as a result of the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) to simplify the management of systems and is particularly useful for a network computing system where multiple computers are controlled. Sun Technologies’ Desktop Management solution lets IT teams focus on business goals by taking full responsibility for administrative tasks like troubleshooting end users, managing IT


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