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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

SCCM 2012


System Center Configuration Manager 2012 is the new version of this robust and scalable solution from Microsoft.

SCCM is in charge of defining your organization structure in order to improve most of our operational tasks in the IT platform, such as software deployment, compliance settings management, and comprehensive asset management of servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.

The basic functionality of SCCM is to work with client agents (discovered initially and commonly using Active Directory), which are deployed to users' devices. These components are then put in an inventory for both hardware and installed software. This data is stored in a central database, and that data is then used to target application deployments to collections of client computers or users.

Some of the common tasks we can perform and integrate with SCCM are software lifecycle management, operating systems deployment, patch management, guaranteeing clients security compliance by integrating it with...