{"id":960,"date":"2012-06-03T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2013-04-06T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T15:43:17","slug":"key-to-migrating-to-windows-7-virtualize-the-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Key to Migrating to Windows 7 and Beyond: Virtualize the Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been doing Application Virtualization for a long time \u2013 a dozen years now. For a long time AppVirt was more of a niche than it is today. Originally it was used with Citrix and Terminal Servers, but even when desktop and laptop support was added it was used by a relatively small number of leading edge companies. That changed somewhat when Microsoft acquired the technology (renaming it App-V), which signaled to many enterprises that they could depend on the technology well into the future.<\/p>\n

But it has been the migration to Windows 7 that has finally allowed this technology to break out from being niche and into the mainstream of enterprises worldwide. The numbers and ranges of companies adopting App-V are stagering. A major driving force appears to be companies that are facing the prospect of a migration project for Windows 7; they tend to adopt App-V as a key ingredient of the project for what I find to be some common reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. The average effort required by premium (hard to get \/ hard to keep \/ expensive) packagers to prepare an application for deployment is significantly less with App-V versus MSI repackaging.<\/li>\n
  2. Isolation of applications eliminates application conflicts.<\/li>\n
  3. Isolation allows \u201cstandard rights\u201d users to run legacy apps (which would normally need admin or power privileges to run).<\/li>\n
  4. Virtualizing applications makes the OS more stateless and much more stable.<\/li>\n
  5. They will have some VDI, and \u201cnon-persistent\u201d VDI needs App-V.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Our master\u2019s level App-V training classes<\/a> have been overfilling in the last two years with companies that are in their migration projects. If you are still working on your Migration project you have a lot of company out there. If you are still planning (or thinking of planning), you might be a bit behind the curve.<\/p>\n

    Companies come to us at TMurgent, not because they want every application delivered via App-V, but because they want to get as many as they can, and quickly. Given a week of time, we educate your people completely in App-V from the ground up. We offer public classes roughly 5 times a year, and on-site private “quick-start” engagements as well. We also provide on or off site consulting to tackle difficult applications.<\/p>\n

    It isn’t too late. And now that Windows 8 is around the corner, guess what? Those virtualized Windows 7 apps will work great on Windows 8 desktops too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have been doing Application Virtualization for a long time \u2013 a dozen years now. For a long time AppVirt was more of a niche than it is today. Originally it was used with Citrix and Terminal Servers, but even when desktop and laptop support was added it was used by a relatively small number… Continue reading Key to Migrating to Windows 7 and Beyond: Virtualize the Apps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,47,48],"tags":[4,37],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-appv4","category-appv5","category-sequencing","tag-app-v","tag-client","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}