Microsoft App-V

Microsoft Application Virtualization ( App-V short ) is a solution for application virtualization. The program was formerly marketed under the name SoftGrid.

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With App-V (formerly SoftGrid) applications are served by a data center or another network location and run locally on remote clients in a virtual environment. The virtualized applications run in sandboxes, making them operate independent of operating system and other applications on the local desktop. An integration with the Systems Management Server can be realized. The fact that the programs will be distributed at run time, a local installation is no longer necessary and the administration work on the clients is greatly reduced.

Put simply streaming from the App - V Server is a software to the computer of the user, similar to an online video. Shortly after the beginning of the stream, the user can use the application, while other parts of the program are loaded in the background. The advantage is therefore that no software needs to be installed on a user computer other than the SoftGrid Client. With appropriate installation, the user can sit anywhere in the network to a nearly free software computer and use the additional software, as these will be streamed from the SoftGrid server as needed for users. If the network connection to the server is interrupted for any reason, the application can continue to be operated in offline mode. However, this assumes that the software was previously completely streamed to the client.

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App- V) is part of the " Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack " ( MDOP ) and with version 4.2 of the desktop clients that Clientcompatibilität with Windows Vista has been added. The SoftGrid Client for Terminal Services allows installation on a Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

With version 4.5 has been added among other things, Dynamic Suiting Communication ( DSC). This technique allows communication between virtualized applications, although the original meaning of virtualization was an isolation of the applications themselves.

Architecture

The SoftGrid system architecture consists of the following components:

  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Application Server, also known as SoftGrid Application Server, which hosts the software packages and streaming to the client computer to run locally. Also authenticating client requests will be reviewed and logged the use. Applications are converted to the SoftGrid Sequencer to virtualized packages.
  • Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for Desktops, also known as SoftGrid Client is responsible for executing on the client side, which represents the requests for software packages that receives the streamed packets, the execution environment ( Runtime Environment) manufactures and ultimately performs the application.
  • SoftGrid Management Console, the administrative tool for setting up, administer and maintain the SoftGrid Application Server. It can be used to define policies that govern the use of the applications. It can also be used to manage virtualized application packages to update and replicate.

Background

With the acquisition of softricity in July 2006, Microsoft has underlined the importance of using virtualization. This acquisition comes Microsoft SoftGrid.

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