Desktop Policy and Desktop Migration Overview

Two different products, Desktop Policy and Desktop Migration, install to the same Desktop Management module within the VSA.

Desktop Policy (KDP) - This includes group-based policies for the definition and deployment of printers and mapped drives and system-wide policies for the definition and deployment of power management options. In addition Desktop Policy enables the definition and deployment of desktop standard packages. Desktop standard packages provide IT staff and MSPs a convenient way of maintaining consistency across an organization and enables the enforcement of corporate standards. You can also remotely enable and disable optical drives, USB drives, Windows Defender and Action Center.
Desktop Migration (KDM) - Provides backup, restore and migration of local user accounts, user settings, application settings, and system settings. Staff and users invest a considerable amount of time customizing their user settings, application settings, and system settings, including browser bookmarks and custom-shortcuts on their system. Preserving customizations and settings during an OS or computer hardware upgrade is error prone and becomes unmanageable when migrating multiple machines at once. Desktop Migration’s migration allows automation of the entire process, saving staff and users valuable time.

Note: See System Requirements.

Functions	Description	Installed with Desktop Policy	Installed with Desktop Migration
Migration Readiness	Provides an instant cost summary of end point readiness for upgrades to Windows 7 or other operating systems.
Status	Provides Desktop Policy and Desktop Migration status dashboards.
Current State	Displays KDPM details about each machine that has the KDPM client installed.
Power	Creates and maintains power policies and applies them to selected machine IDs.
Mapped Drives	Creates and maintains mapped drives policies and applies them uniformly to selected machine IDs.
Printers	Creates and maintains printer connection policies and applies them uniformly to selected machine IDs.
Desktop	Installs a desktop standard package on selected machine IDs.
Optical Drives	Enables and disables DVD and CD-ROM drives on managed machines.
USB Drives	Enables and disables USB drives on managed machines.
Windows Defender	Enables and disables Windows Defender on managed machines.
Action Center	Enables and disables Action Center on managed machines.
Schedule	Schedules the power on of machines that are offline.
Alerts	Creates alerts in response to the success or failure of Wake On LAN events scheduled using Wake on LAN > Schedule.
Backup	Schedules a one-time or recurring backup of settings for all local user accounts on selected machine IDs.
Restore	Schedules a restore of one or more local user accounts to a single target machine ID. Initially, you select the source machine you want to restore from.
Migrate	Schedules a restore of user settings and one or more local user accounts to selected machine IDs.
Manage	Provides a single location for you to manage all tasks related to a Desktop Migration backup, organized by machine ID and backup.
Install/Remove	Installs the KDPM client on selected machines.
Desktop Package	Creates a desktop standard package.
Data Settings	Specifies the directory to store managed settings files.
Policy Alerts	Creates alerts in response to the success or failure of policy events.
Migration Alerts	Creates alerts in response to the success or failure of migration events.
Max Log Age	Specifies the number of days to retain log data.
Logs	Displays KDPM log data for a selected machine ID.