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Microsoft posted about RemoteApp for Hyper-V yesterday, which was essentially highlighting the application publishing capabilities available in Windows XP mode and Windows Virtual PC; however this particular blog post calls out the use of RemoteApp to publish applications on Windows XP and Vista guests running under Hyper-V.
It’s fantastic to see this capability provided in the [...]
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Of course, Windows Virtual PC has been covered in detail already, but I got a chance to play with the product and there’s some neat UI experiences that I hadn’t seen covered yet. Here’s a quick overview of interacting with Windows Virtual PC.
Windows Virtual PC gets a spanking new icon:
Once installed, Virtual PC actually creates [...]
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I’m a little slow off the mark here (I’ve got my head buried in something unrelated), but I’ve just found out today that the App-V 4.5 Cumulative Update 1, although only available on Connect, is not actually a beta, it is the final code that you can start deploying.
The MDOP blog covered this release last [...]
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Two great tools for managing App-V applications have appeared in the last few weeks – SoftBar and the App-V 4.5 Client Diagnostic and Configuration tool (ACDC). Thanks to the efforts of Greg Brownstein and Ment van der Plas, we have some excellent choices for improving the way we can manage and troubleshoot virtual applications on the [...]
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Ment van der Plas, of Login Consultants, has gone and created the most awesome App-V client tool – the App-V 4.5 Client Diagnostic and Configuration tool:
ACDC makes it possible for administrators or users to troubleshoot virtual applications and the environment they run in:
Launch predefined and custom commands within the virtual environment of each [...]
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Here’s an interesting video on the Channel 9 site about the architecture of Microsoft Application Virtualization:
John Sheehan, Architect of Microsoft’s AppVirt (SoftGrid) technology, spends some time with me digging (deeply) into the architecture and engineering of the application virtualization technology he and team create. A few months ago John joined us for a Going Deep [...]
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Ment van der Plas has a great article on virtual application deployment in SCCM 2007 R2
The App-V 4.5 Full Infrastructure scenario (with App-V Management / Streaming server) only supports User Based application deployment. If you are using the Configuration Manager 2007 R2 integration of App-V 4.5 you can do both User and Machine based deployment. [...]
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