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Product Identification - managing developer desktops effectively stems from a healthy understanding of the products themselves, identifying them by product signature, and leveraging your existing systems management solution to detect them during routine network and desktop scans. In this training module, we will provide a substantial amount of education on the origin of products, their tell-tale signatures, and how you can leverage them to begin managing developer desktop environments more effectively.

Inventory Management - knowing if a given developer tool is installed is just the start of managing developer desktops within your organization. Understanding how to collect inventory statistics, aggregate them into intelligent reports, and prepare that data for business decision making is critical. Throughout this training module, we will take a deep dive and fully examine how your software asset management solution can be best leveraged to include developer products.

License Tracking - since MSDN Subscriptions aren't products per-se, meaning they themselves cannot be specifically scanned for during normal software inventory processes, the aforementioned aggregated information is critical to marrying developer desktop assets with licensed MSDN Subscriptions. During this training module, we will take a look at the art behind ensuring licenses and actual software assets are in sync.

Asset Management - Understanding what is installed, where it exists, and whether it is associated with licensed MSDN Subscriptions, is the beginning to more effectively managing a developer infrastructure. During this training module, we will examine how to use all of the gathered information to begin making intelligent and sustaining Application Lifecycle Management tools decisions.