Chapter 4. Planning and implementing App-V

Virtualization usage has been expanding throughout the last several years. Although many IT administrators are now familiar with desktop and server virtualization, application virtualization is a lesser-known technology that is expanding rapidly. Simply put, application virtualization is a technology that delivers applications to computing devices in isolated containers without the need to perform a standard application installation on each computing device.

App-V provides a new way to deliver applications to users, a new way to centrally manage applications, and additional application ...

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