The document discusses application virtualization as a solution for various desktop challenges, such as running legacy applications on newer operating systems without conflicts. It highlights the benefits, including cost savings in application management, and explains how virtual app architecture facilitates easy deployment and removal of applications. The document also details the capabilities of the Zenworks application virtualization server for both end users and administrators.

1. Solving
Desktop
Challenges
with Application Virtualisation
Ron van Herk | Solutions Consultant | Feb 24 - 2016

2. What if….
•I need IE8 to connect to my CRM system
• but want to move to Windows 10
•I need to run JAVA Applets
• but do not have the correct JVM on the workstations
• but my browser doesn’t allow JAVA applets anymore
•I to access two different databases
• but they require a different Oracle client versions to be used

3. Or maybe….
• I just want to make distributing applications more easy
• I want to allow home users to access corporate
applications
• I want to provide applications to students /
home workers

4. What is 'Application Virtualisation'
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Applications

5. What is 'Application Virtualisation'
Desktop Hardware
Application Conflicts
E-mail clients Office Suites
Browser Plugins Run Times
Web Browsers Doc. Readers
Applications
Windows OS
Desktop Hardware
Windows OS
InternetExplorer8
Office2010
Office2013
RunTime
The ROI Factor
•60% savings on
application testing,
packaging and support
•5-7% saving of overall
application
management
Source: Gartner April 2008,
ID#G00155897
Traditional Installations Application Virtualisation
InternetExplorer6
RunTime

6. What is 'Application Virtualisation'
•Separate the application in a isolated unit
• Easy to deploy
• Easy to remove
•Different isolated applications can’t see each other
• No version conflicts
• Ability to run different versions of the same application
• Ability to run different supporting components (JAVA / .Net)

7. How do we get there?

8. Virtual App Architecture

9. Intuitive Design Studio
 Graphical interface, extremely easy to handle
 Backup / Recovery of the virtualization projects
 Capture Before / Capture After process
 Many applications templates provided
 MSI files management
 No license for the instances of the studio
Files
Clear and intuitive menus
Registry

10. Application Virtualisation Studio

11. Application Virtualisation Studio

12. Application Delivery

13. Two Ways to Access Applications
• 1. Using the Standalone EXE
• Installation on the desktop / ZENworks
• Associate file extensions
• Startmenu icons
• Run from network share or USB device

14. Two Ways to Access Applications
• 2. Provisioning via a web interface
ZENworks® Application
Virtualization Server

15. Application Virtualisation Server

16. End User Facing ZENworks Application
Virtualization Server Capabilities
• Application Portal
• Provides the end-user a simple to
use web interface for accessing
all of their virtual applications
• Access to applications is based
on permissions granted to the
user
• Authentication via LDAP to Active
Directory and/or eDirectory

17. End User Facing ZENworks® Application Virtualization Server
Capabilities
• ZAV Plug-in
• Lightweight
• Streams / downloads application from the web server
• Automatically synchronizes application sandbox as
the user moves between machines
• Allows user to register applications to their desktop
• Allows user to enable folder synchronization on their
device(s)

18. Administrator Facing ZENworks Application
Virtualization Server Capabilities
• License metering
• Configure ZAV server to deliver a virtual app to a limited
number of
• Unique devices / users
• Concurrent devices / users
• If you are using ZAM consider
adding a manual consumption
record indicating that you have
given n licenses to ZAV to
manage

19. Administrator Facing ZENworks Application
Virtualization Server Capabilities
• Usage tracking
• View the most used applications, start and stops of each
session, total duration for each application or session

20. Administrator Facing ZENworks Application
Virtualization Server Capabilities
• User sources
• Configure ZAV Server to use local authentication OR LDAP
based authentication
• Simple to import existing SVMs
• Profile and model applications from any device that can
access the admin portal
• Easily re-optimize applications one streaming profiles have
been created
• Support for multiple server environments

21. Thank you