Tim Mangan Kahuna, TMurgent Technologies

 Applications Are Hard  Many Enterprises skipped Windows Vista  Capacity of computers not at necessary levels  User-data migration tools not in place  Incompatible Apps  IT Pros to Manage Apps are Hard to Get/Keep  Isolation, Segregation, Virtualization is Cost Effective Nobody Ever wants to Migrate Again

 Microsoft App-V  Citrix Streaming  VMware ThinApp  Endeavors  InstallFree  Spoon  Symantec

 1999

Lessons: Caching, Isolation, Virtualization

 2000 Land Ourselves on the Ground

 2001  Softricity SoftGrid Solving Conflict Number 1 Job

 Virtualization: Redirection & Isolation

 Eliminate App Conflict Testing  Merge App Silos for Efficiency  Support Multiple Versions of Same App  Make Single User App Multi-user  Allow Std User for bad apps

Solving Multi-User Conflict Number 2 Job

UserA Prefs UserB Prefs UserC Prefs Operating System App 1 App 3 App 4 App 2

 Centralized Distribution  Package Once, Deploy Everywhere  Help With License Tracking  Run Apps While Disconnected

 Personal  Same As Real Desktop  Pooled  Populate Apps Based On Logon  Smaller Master Image Possible

 Multi-Tennant Support

 Sequencer: Re-package Applications  Client: (two flavors)  App-V for Windows Desktops (MDOP)  App-V for Remote Desktop Services  Optional App-V Server

 Enhanced Configuration Scripting  Burst New Capacity Instantly  Remove Isolation Available via SCVMM 2012 Supported Apps Services IIS Web Apps/VDirs Sql Server Express Sql Reporting Services COM/COM+/DCOM Not Supported Server Roles Sql Server Exchange/Sharepoint Device Drivers

 Make App Machine & User Independent  Can leverage:  Re-packaged MSIs  Existing Install Scripts  Less Work than MSI Repackaging  Sequence Once for All OSs (usually)  Retrain MSI Re-packagers Easily

1.Sequence Vendor App using Recipe or Package Accelerator. 2.Smoke Test Result. 3.App Expert Tests Result. 4.Release to Production.

 Publishing is Integrating into User Interface  Shortcuts  File Associations  Distribution is setting up connection to the bits  Streaming  Pre-caching

 App-V Server  Reasonably Scalable  Dedicated to only App-V  SCCM  Scales up and out  Images, MSI, and App-V  Stand-Alone Client / 3 rd Party Tools

App-V Server SCCM Server Stand-alone Client RTSP Client SCCM + App-V Client

Virtual Application Group Policy User Profile Virtualization Settings Virtualized Package Files & Settings File Systems Non virtualized Applications, Services, dlls, and COM components X Windows Registry