| Subject: ERD Commander Reborn as Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit |
| Group: microsoft.public.winternals |
| Date: 7/8/2008 9:47:59 PM |
| From: "Will" [Email Address Protection] |
I have been looking for an update to the ERD Commander 2005 utility we bought from Winternals. Microsoft has been strangely silent on the issue, but today I noticed they have a replacement utility here named Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D600369-0554-4595-8AB4-C34B2860E087&displaylang=en I downloaded it, and to my surprise this *is* ERD Commander. Now the question is how do I buy it? When you go to the above link, it tells you that this tool is part of "Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack" When you go read about that, it is only available to "Software Assurance" customers. Will this utility be available through MSDN subscription as well? Overall, it's confusing to me who can buy this new ERD Commander and who cannot. -- Will |
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| Subject: Re: ERD Commander Reborn as Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit |
| Group: microsoft.public.winternals |
| Date: 7/11/2008 8:06:05 AM |
| From: "Mike Brannigan" [Email Address Protection] |
"Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in message news:Pd2dnZTNXMOY3unVnZ2dnUVZ_hjinZ2d@giganews.com... >I have been looking for an update to the ERD Commander 2005 utility we >bought from Winternals. Microsoft has been strangely silent on the >issue, but today I noticed they have a replacement utility here named >Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset: > > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D600369-0554-4595-8AB4-C34B2860E087&displaylang=en > > I downloaded it, and to my surprise this *is* ERD Commander. Now the > question is how do I buy it? > > When you go to the above link, it tells you that this tool is part of > "Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack" When you go read about that, > it is only available to "Software Assurance" customers. Will this > utility be available through MSDN subscription as well? Overall, it's > confusing to me who can buy this new ERD Commander and who cannot. > > -- > Will Will, the tool DaRT is only available as part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance customers So it is only available if you buy the MDOP which contains other great tools and features (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/enterprise/features/tools.mspx) and this is only available to customer who have a volume license agreement for their purchase of Windows client licenses and they have taken the Software Assurance option on top of that (eOpen or Select customers) or have it built into their volume license deal (Enterprise Agreement customers). It (MDOP) is then licensed per seat per year The tools or the other tools in MDOP are not available for production use via any other means. (MDOP is available for development and testing purposes under the MSDN subscription - but obviously you cannot use this in your production environment, only in your dev test lab as covered by the MSDN master license agreement - so for production use in your company you have to acquire it via MDOP for SA customers) -- Mike Brannigan > > |
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| Subject: Re: ERD Commander Reborn as Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit |
| Group: microsoft.public.winternals |
| Date: 7/11/2008 5:25:54 PM |
| From: "Will" [Email Address Protection] |
"Mike Brannigan" <Mike.Brannigan@localhost> wrote in message news:4FC1FAC4-8ABB-48F2-9189-C63992AD6508@microsoft.com... > "Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in message > news:Pd2dnZTNXMOY3unVnZ2dnUVZ_hjinZ2d@giganews.com... >>I have been looking for an update to the ERD Commander 2005 utility we >>bought from Winternals. Microsoft has been strangely silent on the >>issue, but today I noticed they have a replacement utility here named >>Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset: >> >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D600369-0554-4595-8AB4-C34B2860E087&displaylang=en >> >> I downloaded it, and to my surprise this *is* ERD Commander. Now the >> question is how do I buy it? >> >> When you go to the above link, it tells you that this tool is part of >> "Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack" When you go read about that, >> it is only available to "Software Assurance" customers. Will this >> utility be available through MSDN subscription as well? Overall, >> it's confusing to me who can buy this new ERD Commander and who cannot. >> >> -- >> Will > > Will, > the tool DaRT is only available as part of the Microsoft Desktop > Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance customers > So it is only available if you buy the MDOP which contains other great > tools and features > (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/enterprise/features/tools.mspx) > and this is only available to customer who have a volume license agreement > for their purchase of Windows client licenses and they have taken the > Software Assurance option on top of that (eOpen or Select customers) or > have it built into their volume license deal (Enterprise Agreement > customers). > It (MDOP) is then licensed per seat per year > > The tools or the other tools in MDOP are not available for production use > via any other means. What's the minimum number of clients that must be purchased under software assurance to be eligible for this? -- Will |
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