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Microsoft App-V seems incredibly hot right now, with everyone getting ready to jump on App-V 5 when SP2 comes out. There is way more activity in this space than I have ever seen!
I have been running training classes on App-V for over six years now. Back when Microsoft bought Softricity, I saw an interest spike. But it was …
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Last week, I wrote a blog post On App-V 5 Performance which received a lot of attention. From the response, it is pretty clear that my message was not understood. I am a geek, so it is not that unusual. So let’s try to fix that here. Here is an English translation of my thoughts: |
The message that I attempted …
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You may have heard that I am working on a book.
It started as a White Paper to help explain how the different caching options in App-V 5 work, to help customers with their questions on how to deploy. But the scope became more book-like, so …
Back when we created SoftGrid, the OS only supported one “owner” application for a given file type association. And we learned to live with this, but really didn’t like it all that much. Now we don’t have to.
For natively installed applications, somewhere along the way Microsoft added a new interface for developers (or more specifically …
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OK. So XenDesktop 7, the new combined version of XenDesktop and XenApp is now released.
And we can see that Citrix has not integrated their own application virtualization solutions (Citrix Streaming) into the Citrix Studio console. Instead, they have chosen to with integrate Microsoft App-V 5. |
And not just into the Management console, but also in the new AppDNA, which …
Scripting is completely different in App-V 5 versus 4.*. Back in December, I wrote this post describing App-V 5 Scripting support to supplement and hopefully clarify the limited information provided by Microsoft. It will take more time than I have for a couple weeks to be able to write down what I learned this week into a comprehensible document, but …
Quick thought of the day.
When developing software for the enterprise, the incentives exist to load up with lots of features. The enterprise procurement process emphasizes getting more features for similar money, leading the vendors to add more and more features.
The folks buying to put stuff in the cloud are not the same. They value simplicity. They value automation. …
As promised, here is Slide Deck from my presentation at Citrix Synergy 2013.
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