App-V Part 5: Lightweight Infrastructure Designed to provide a balance between features and infrastructure requirements, App-V's Lightweight Infrastructure mode does require a bit of back-end: Specifically, you need to install the System Center Application Virtualization Streaming Server - which most folks just call "the App-V streaming thing." Operating without AD (if you like) and with

App-V Part 4: Standalone Mode Okay, you've sequenced your apps and you're ready to deploy them. Standalone Mode is the simplest of App-V's three infrastructure options, so let's cover it first. In Standalone Mode, you want the Sequencer to produce MSI files for you. Quite simply, you then deploy those suckers however you want: IntelliMirror,

App-V Part 3: Sequencing App-V starts with sequencing, the process of turning a "normal" Windows app into a "virtualized app" (I'm starting to like the term "bubbled app" because it sounds neat; some folks also call it a "packaged app" or a "sandboxed app"). The App-V Sequencer is the bit that does this. This

App-V Part 2: Architecture App-V can be a pretty complicated beast. Heck, anytime you see the word "System Center" in a product name, you usually know it's not as simple as just running Setup.exe! So an important part of this article is going to be making sense of the various App-V components. First off,

App-V for the Jack of All Tech (Pt 1) If you haven't explored Microsoft's "App-V" technology - formerly called "SoftGrid" - then you should. No matter what size your environment, App-V stands to make the biggest impact in terms of desktop management, usability, and saving you time and trouble. The problem is that the product has, by and large,