Brian Madden has created an article that walks you through using Microsoft’s SoftGrid product to sequence or virtualise Microsoft Office 2007 in 30 easy to follow steps.
It is worth a read even if you don’t own SoftGrid as the concepts can be applied to other Application Virtualisation products. I used the section about tweaking the [...]
I don’t get chance to use ThinApp (Thinstall) as much as I used to, but I’ve had a couple of conversations where people have asked me for the real benefits and downsides.
I’m not one for re-inventing the wheel, so here are links to the excellent articles written by 4sysops.
Advantages of Application Virtualisation
Disadvantages of Application Virtualisation
Outlines [...]
Xenocode have released a new version of their Virtual Application Studio and it has some really great features now to rival VMware’s ThinApp including:
Deploy complex apps in a single executable
Stream with no infrastructure changes
Execute .NET and Java with no runtime
Run legacy applications on Vista
Execute on locked-down desktops
Completely user mode implementation
Leverage existing management tools
Not much to say about this document apart from essential reading. Anybody remotely interested in application virtualisation needs to read this document.
Thanks to the guys at virtualfuture.info
I stumbled across this interesting article over at the c1tr1xguru blog that talks about VMware’s fairly recent Thinstall acquisition undergoing a name change.
Thinstall has been in beta since VMware purchased Thinstall back in January this year under the guise of the Project North Star beta project.
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