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Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide

By : Augusto Alvarez
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Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide

By: Augusto Alvarez

Overview of this book

Microsoft's Application Virtualization technology has been emerging as one of the main platforms in application virtualization. This is mainly because more and more organizations are thinking about application virtualization as a valid implementation; also because App-V represents probably the most attractive solution. App-V introduces a new and efficient way to improve operating systems and application life cycles in organizations. However, if we want to maximize our investment we must learn that every scenario and application differs from another, as does complexity.With Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide administrators will find detailed topics for understanding App-V components, architecture and implementation models; as well as step-by-step guidance to master App-V processes. There is also guidance on integrating App-V with other robust platforms like VDI, SCCM 2012 and even virtualizing server applications. Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide will start by giving readers the means to discover unfamiliar topics in App-V, as well as understanding App-V's architecture. By doing so, it will provide the baseline needed before shifting to advanced topics in App-V, like complex scenarios for sequencing and deploying applications. The book details scripting within App-V, as well as handling the platform using the command line; there is a complete review of troubleshooting installations, sequencing and deploying applications. Integration is another key component we will cover by introducing App-V in VDI and SCCM 2012. Server applications are not forgotten with Server App-V, using this book the reader will have a detailed understanding, with how-to steps to virtualize server applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Extending App-V implementations


Extending the App-V platform using the Internet is possible and does not introduce vast complexity, since the protocols and the communications established between clients and servers can be identified and therefore published to the Internet.

In the App-V Security Operations Guide document provided by Microsoft (available at the Microsoft Download Center—http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx), there are examples about some of the most common scenarios associated with publishing the App-V platform to the Internet and also considerations about using domain and non-domain joined clients.

Publishing App-V in your firewalls

Depending on network complexity and the App-V model selected, the scenarios available to publish App-V are indeed too many to describe each one. We can however, describe two of the most common scenarios: publishing App-V servers located on the internal network and publishing App-V servers located in the DMZ.

Using App-V servers on the...