[1] It aims at bringing easier manageability and monitoring of enterprise desktops, emergency recovery, desktop virtualization and application virtualization.

The MDOP suite is grouped into 3 overall technologies: Virtualize, Manage and Restore Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT), formerly Emergency Repair Disk Commander (ERD Commander), is a set of tools that helps diagnose an offline copy of Microsoft Windows.

It can uninstall installed hotfixes, perform crash analysis, recover deleted files and access System Restore's restore checkpoints on the offline operating system in an environment similar to Windows graphical user interface.

ERD Commander later became a Microsoft property with its acquisition of Winternals on 17 July 2006.

[7] Microsoft DaRT is based on the Windows Preinstallation Environment.