Simplify Application Deployment, Reduce End User Interruptions
Give your staff time back for other projects by reducing test cycles and delivering applications more quickly to your end users while providing seamless application updates that don’t require reboots.
With Microsoft Application Virtualization, you can transform the way new applications and updates are deployed, making virtual application management simpler and faster. Unlike traditional ESD for physical applications, which necessitates queues and installations, App-V virtual applications are never installed on individual desktops, laptops, or terminal servers. Instead, virtual applications are located on a central App-V Server, managed from the App-V console and deployed on-demand to either desktops, laptops, or terminal servers over the network when they're needed. This automates all four stages of the application management process:
| • | Reduces application to application conflicts: Because each application executes inside its own virtual space, conflict is greatly reduced. This means applications can run alongside each other where they would normally conflict. Even multiple versions of the same application, such as the 2007 Office system, Office 2003, Office XP, and Office 2000, and multiple database client versions such as SQL, Oracle, and Sybase, can run on the same device at the same time. |
| • | Significantly reduces regression testing: Because there is a dramatically reduced chance that applications will conflict, the need to perform lengthy regression testing—one of the biggest time factors in bringing an application from purchase to production— is significantly reduced. Get your applications to your users more quickly through virtualization. |
| • | Remove the complexity of enterprise deployments: By reducing application conflicts and regression testing, application deployments can be made easier. New applications can be easily rolled out into the enterprise, and removed cleanly. They can quickly deploy applications by placing the software on an App-V server and assigning application rights to users using Active Directory. This rapidly deploys icons on end users’ desktops, making access immediate and no different from what they are already used to. Desktop images sizes can be minimized as applications can be deployed via App-V and are never installed, reducing the overall footprint of the desktop. |
| • | Transparent, Dynamic Application Updates: To update applications, administrators replace only the changed files on the App-V Server. Network connected end users have immediate access to the latest version without any downtime for application upgrade. |
| • | End of Life: To deprecate an application, administrators simply remove it from the App-V Server and clear the client cache. To remove a particular user's rights, administrators simply remove access from Active Directory. Either of these automatically removes icons for the application on end users’ desktops on the next App-V Desktop Configuration refresh. There are no un-installs. |
The graphic below provides a high-level view into some of the App-V Infrastructure components and the general workflow for delivering virtual applications to various endpoints.
