Blogs from TMurgent
VDI is often categorized as either Non-Persistent or Persistent.
Non-persistent VDI is where you use a shared common image. Only one image to maintain. When the user logs off, the image is destroyed and the next time the user logs on they get the original image.
Persistent VDi is where the complete image is retained upon logout and the next …
I have written a new “white paper” on App-V 5. This one looks at package “pellucidity” (the layering effect caused by the settings “override local” or “merge with local”), and package deletion objects and how these are implemented at the client when you use Connection Groups.
As it was in 4.6 with DSC, all is not as simple as you …
One of the big benefits of App-V has always been that applications that needed certain kinds of remediation to work today were automatically dealt with.
I’m talking about apps that were developed without complete support for multiple users (or multiple tenants), or for apps that assumed systems that have no security protection to write to common locations.
We just sequenced …
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 …
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 …
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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