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Application Management

• What Makes A Good Vendor Certification Exam?

  A look at the process of creating a vendor certification exam, and what we can learn from it to help prepare for these kinds of exams.  Continue Reading

• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Old Wine in New Bottles?!

  Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Old Wine in New Bottles?!Is virtual desktop infrastructure old wine in new bottles?  Continue Reading

• App-V 4.5 Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guide available

  The App-V 4.5 Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture.  Continue Reading

• APP-V 4.5 Management Pack for SCOM review

  Tim Mangan, the fifth Microsoft App-V MVP, created a nice whitepaper about the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) management pack for App-V 4.5. The whitepaper describes the installation, configuration and (health) monitoring capabilities.  Continue Reading

• Symantec adds a desktop broker to past Altiris and AppStream buys. We have another major VDI player!

  Looking to "redefine endpoint virtualzation," yesterday Symantec announced that they bought connection broker software vendor nSuite Technologies. Known mostly in the medical field, nSuite's Desktop Connection Broker product manages ICA or RDP ...  Continue Reading

• New Video: App-V Sequencing with Tim Mangan, Episode 8

  I know. It's summer and there just isn't much new news until the fall.  Continue Reading

• Understanding all the Application and Desktop delivery solutions in 30 minutes

  IntroductionThe "Application and Desktop Delivery solutions" diagram has been developed in order to be able to provide a complete overview of the various applications and desktop delivery solutions. This article was written by Ruben Spruijt in order...  Continue Reading

• Microsoft will release Application Virtualization 4.5 on 8 september

  At Microsoft's WorldWide Partner Conference in Houston Microsoft announced that App-V will be released at 8 September. Microsoft Application Virtualization, short term is App-V 4.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, Virtual Fantasy or Actual Reality?!

  Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 is the new name for Microsoft SoftGrid and is Microsoft's application virtualization solution.  Continue Reading

• BriForum 2008 "Tomorrow's news today"

  Tomorrow's news today that's BriForum 2008. Together with 20 other speakers I joined the BriForum crew this year.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Deep Dive

  Chris Lord, Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft presented a Sequencing Deep dive @ Tech-ed 2008.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft Application Virtualization, App-V, Release Candidate

  Today Microsoft release the first Release Candidate of App-V, Microsoft's application virtualization solution.New features:HTTP streamingNew Sequencer UIDynamic Suite Composition (DSC) for MSI packagesImproved integration with SCCM 2007 R2Reporting.  Continue Reading

• Softricity Purchase: Year 2 and beyond

  It has been about two years since Microsoft purchased Softricity, and probably a good time to take one more look at what has happened since, and is happening now. [For reference, when Microsoft purchased Softricity, I spoke with Brian Madden in one ...  Continue Reading

• VMware ThinApp helper configuration utility

  VMware ThinApp, former know as Thinstall, offers functions that other Application Virtualization solutions cannot offer. It is no problem for Thinstalled applications to be executed within a few seconds on a workstation, where no client is installed...  Continue Reading

• Thinstall + Wine = Windows apps without Windows?

  At my training class in Brisbane last month, one of the students, Sharin Yeoh, demoed Microsoft Office 2007 running locally on a Linux desktop via Thinstall packages on Wine. My inner geek response was "This is the coolest thing I've ever seen!"  Continue Reading