Chapter 9. Deploying Virtual Applications

In the early days of application virtualization, features were tied together, creating problems when deploying to large organizations. For example, if your company had coexistence issues with a couple of web apps on two computers in a remote location, all of the App-V backend components, including the management and SQL servers, would need to be installed at that remote location. The separation of product features sets allows much greater flexibility in right-sizing solutions such that overengineering is not required. Scalability has also been addressed by allowing virtual applications to be either streamed or copied from nearly any source.

Another step in the right direction is a greater focus and simplification ...

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