Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5

First Microsoft branded release of Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5

Focus on:

• Dynamic Virtualization
  
• Extending Scalability
  
• Globalization
  
• Microsoft Security Standards
  

Application Isolation: keeping the application separate from Windows so that it is not impacted by differences between different versions of Windows and so on. When there is Middleware that needs to be sequenced with the main application, it is not in the "context" of the application. Today, that is solved by "suiting" the application with the middleware. That is a problem when I want to update the Middleware that is "suited" with many different sequenced applications. With 4.5, we can decide at run-time which other applications or Middleware will run in the same "SystemGuard Environment".

4.1 and 4.2 were not sufficiently scalable, or manageable.

Three different flavours of delivery options:

• Full infrastructure: AD and SQL Server req'd; desktop configuration service; dynamic delivery; desktop configuration
  
• Lightweight infrastructure: dynamic delivery; No desktop configuration
  
• Standalone mode: No server req'd—delivered via CD.
  

Nice that the streaming happens in the background to ensure the maximum amount of streaming has happened by the time you are trying to use the application. Right now, streaming does not happen until you require the next page of memory. It sounds like this is really solved with 4.5.

4.5 will also allow sequenced applications to be run by people that access them across the internet (if we sequenced applications we could provide them to students and staff off campus—even people who never came to campus). Integration with SCCM 2007 R2—the infrastructure from SCCM 2007 R2 can be used by Application Virtualization.