Digging further into the details of the data we’ve gathered from our OS Automation survey, let’s take a look at the virtual desktop platforms in use by those who responded. I’ll largely present this as is and leave any further analysis for later articles.
Some older applications (and perhaps even some newer applications) will prompt for elevation on Windows via User Account Control (UAC) - this might be a valid request for elevation, but in the case of many older applications it’s because they expect to run with administrative rights.
We had an amazing response to our OS automation deployment survey with well over 700 respondents. In this series of articles to be posted here and on xenappblog.com, we’ll cover and analyse the results.
Here’s is a list of articles and resources for delivering the currently supported versions of Microsoft Office with App-V 5.
Kevin Kaminski, a long time App-V MVP based in Calgary, Canada. He’s a long time presenter at events such as BriForum and MMS. As well as consulting on application delivery, he provides training services for App-V and application packaging._
Operating system support for App-V is ultimately determined by the Microsoft Product Support Lifecycle. You can search the Product Support Lifecycle page for “Application Virtualization” to return the product lifecycle for all versions of App-V. This FAQ covers the most recent version of App-V: 5.1.
We’re into the closing days of the OS Deployment Automation Survey over at xenappblog.com and we need you to help make this a success. So far we’ve had a great response with over 600 people taking part, but with a week still left there’s still plenty of time to get involved.
