Other posts in this series: Implementing App-V – Part II: Choosing and Preparing the Environment Implementing App-V – Part III: Integrating Clients Implementing App-V – Part IV: Sequencing Applications Virtualizing applications it is not a very common requirement for most administrators or companies. These solutions doesn’t seem like a “must” in any given environment, but why? One of the main reasons it’s related to the benefit/cost equation it’s not quite clear for most of us. With these posts I’ll try to give a small introduction to the technology, explain the environment, provide a step-by-step deployment for App-V and the benefits that could apply to your organization. What is Application Virtualization? Application virtualization represents the technologies that permits to remove the complexity of deploying and maintaining applications for desktop users by providing: Applications centralized management. Facilitates the process of deploying, updating and removing applications.  Removing potential conflicts on desktop clients. Each application deployed using this type of technology runs in a isolated environment. Capability to capture a set of interconnected applications into a single package to be distributed among clients. Common Scenarios Let me give you a few common scenarios where application virtualization applies: Scenario A Problem: You are using a company’s application that requires some special configurations every time that is deployed, and that is also interconnected with other applications (for example: A local database engine, Java Runtime Environment or some other particular requirement). It demands you several hours […]

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