This includes roaming profiles and folder redirection that we are all familiar with. However, it beefs up the management and incorporates more seamlessly within the rest of your virtualized infrastructure.
The amount of benefits overall are staggering. Centralized administration for nearly every critical piece of your infrastructure, increased security, scalability, dynamic configurations, disaster recovery simplicity, update simplicity, cost reduction, huge drop in power consumption, elimination of software compatibility issues, and the list goes on and on. The best part is too with Microsoft System Center and Virtual Machine Manager, physical assets and every type of virtual asset can be centrally managed. It even provides support for non-Windows virtual machines and if you currently use VMWare it can even manage those machines in the same location. This is just the tip of the iceberg too and you can see where this is all headed. Microsoft's obvious goal here is to maximize efficiency through consolidation and centralization. They are doing this by eliminating any wasted resources throughout the entire network, whether it is in the datacenter or a desktop. Also by mitigating vulnerabilities and protecting the areas where common pitfalls exist. Ease of management is completely within scope and these technologies need to be harnessed to their fullest extent. I suggest we all dive a little deeper...