Windows 7: working with virtual applications

Recently, there have been trends towards the transition to / from cloud computing.


From the Wiki: Cloud computing is a distributed data processing technology in which computer resources and capacities are provided to the user as an Internet service.

One of the most difficult moments is the transfer of applications to the virtual environment. I want to talk about the solution from Microsoft - Application Virtualization for Desktops, it is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and very successfully "virtualizes" all the software that you are used to.


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The essence of this solution is simple: a server is installed in your company where virtual application packages are stored. These packages are created in a special way: an observer program is installed on a clean system: Sequencer - this program monitors the installation of a program on this system and creates a virtual application package at the end. The main difficulty of the whole technology is to correctly create this package. Not a few broken copies when trying to create them, but this is only a matter of experience. Further this package is placed on the aforementioned server, in its settings you can specify the AD groups to whom the application will be available. And you can assign it to anyone with a Windows Client — the Desktop Client will be installed.

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The scheme is working now and can be successfully applied in any company. After installing on a clean system Desktop Client'a, you immediately get the whole set of software needed in the work.

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Advantages of this approach:
+ no need to install software on a local computer;
+ no need to worry about updating it;
+ licensing responsibility is shifted to the server side;
+ if you store data in the cloud and use virtual applications - then your PC is no different from a regular terminal.

Disadvantages:
- such a mechanism is currently only available on the local network, due to the speed of loading the application;
- It’s not you who decides which software suite will be available to you;


I dare to suggest that this decision is a serious step towards virtualizing everything and everyone. Perhaps in the future all of our PCs will be just cross-platform terminals to which certain applications will be delivered by subscription, you just need to put it on the Internet. This is a review, detailed instructions are available ...

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