In Terminal Server TS2 install app2. And so on. Publish the applications as RemoteApps. Now each user can run them simultaneously from the same client OS session and they will appear in normal windows. The downside here is that you need a different Terminal Server for each app to isolate the app from the others. And if there were more conflicting apps, you would need more Terminal Servers. Sequence each application as an App-V app. Make the applications available to your users. Now each user can run them simultaneously from the same OS client session and they will appear in normal windows.
This is because each App-V application runs in an isolated environment. You are the administrator of Contoso, a company that sells illegal firearms. In every PC there are a lot of other applications installed that the users also need. All applications, both the locally installed ones and the sensitive ones, should be seamlessly available. What will you answer to your boss? Clearly the solution here is RemoteApps. You should suggest deploying a Terminal Server, install the sensitive applications there and make them available as RemoteApps.
When these applications are run, they will appear to the users as if they are installed locally. Although App-V has a secure cache and security measures to prevent the applications from being used offline and from remaining in the local PC cache after they are run, since the boss wants no part of the applications executables downloaded to the PCs, RemoteApps is the best solution.
Problem C. Contoso sells contraband items to various countries around the world and has hired you as an external consultant.
Recently sales have fallen and the company has decided to reduce TCO costs by replacing desktops with thin clients. They heard about MED-V and want to implement the technology towards their goal. What will you advise them? Applications may be easily updated or upgraded in the background and the end user need not know anything about it.
Service to the application can continue without interrupting the users work; the next time that they connect and log in, they will load the updated program with no downtime. In Microsoft App-V programs are sequenced prepared for virtualization on a model system and then distributed. What you need to know about this style of application virtualization is that it will run for applications virtualized on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server , Windows Server , and it will work in future on Windows 7.
These include the Terminal Server versions of the server OSs. For an application to be sequenced on one of the previously mentioned operating systems, it has to be able to run on it.
What MED-V does differently is that it combines computer virtualization with application virtualization for all of the benefits of application virtualization. For example, if your application only runs on Windows Server , you cannot sequence that application to have it run with App-V.
Since Virtual PC is just an application or service running on top of an operating system, there is no problem launching the virtual instance of this application on a formerly incompatible operating system!
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Like Print Bookmarks. Mar 15, 3 min read by Abel Avram. Automatic application publishing — New applications deployed to MED-V workspaces, including App-V virtual applications, are available to the Windows 7 host automatically. My Documents and Desktop redirection - Legacy applications work just like locally installed applications when it comes to opening, saving and printing documents. Support for sequencing Microsoft. NET Framework 4.
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Contents Exit focus mode. You have considered Windows XP Mode as a solution and have determined that it is not an efficient option because: You want to be able to deploy virtual images that contain the problem applications to all end users at the same time, instead of individually, and have the virtual images automatically joined to the domain.
You want to be able to update and support the virtual machines in scale instead of per desktop. By using MED-V, you can do the following: Upgrade to your new operating system without having to test and resolve every incompatible application and URL.
Deploy virtual Windows XP images that are automatically domain-joined and customized per user. Provision applications and URL redirection information to users. Control the Windows Virtual PC settings. Maintain and support endpoints through monitoring and troubleshooting. Ensure that guest computers are patched, even if in a suspended state. Automate per-user virtual machine creation and sysprep initialization. Easily diagnose issues on the host and guest computers.
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