The document presents an overview of Novell Zenworks Application Virtualization, emphasizing its ability to isolate Windows applications and manage conflicting software without requiring installation on the host operating system. It details benefits such as enhanced desktop security, easier application delivery, and cost savings, while distinguishing application virtualization from traditional software packaging. The presentation concludes with potential use cases, features of Zenworks, and a demonstration of its capabilities.

1. Protecting the Desktop with Novell ®
ZENworks Application Virtualization
®
Ross Chevalier Ron van Herk
CTO Americas, President Novell Canada Technical Sales Specialist
Novell, Inc/rchevalier@novell.ca Novell, Inc/rvanherk@novell.com

2. Agenda
• What is Application Virtualization
• How does it compare with Virtual Desktop
• Why start with Novell ZENworks Application
® ®
Virtualization (ZAV)
• Use Cases
• ZAV Features
• Demonstration
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3. Application Virtualization

4. Why Virtualize?
Keep desktop
Reduce helpdesk manageable
support calls
What to do with
Conflicting Applications
Agility
Provide applications
to students
Fast
delivery of
applications Security
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5. Application Virtualization
• Isolates Windows
applications from the
Virtual Virtual Virtual
underlying operating
Application Application Application system.
• Virtual applications are
not installed.
Operating System • Do not change the host
Host Hardware OS or registry
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6. The Reality of Today's Desktop
• Single hard drive unnecessarily
large
E-mail clients Office Suites
• Single partition i.e.: C: drive only
Browser Plugins Run Times
• Operating System
Web Browsers Doc. Readers
• Hardware manufacturer drivers
DLL “Hell”
• User's profile
Applications • Business installed applications
• Business data
Security Tools
Management Tools
• Personal installed applications
User Profile • Personal data
Hardware Drivers
Windows OS • Security tools for desktop
protection
Physical Hardware • Management tools for desktop
configuration
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7. Application Virtualization
Virtualize applications – Desktop on a Stick
• Applications run in isolated
environments (Sandboxes)
Explorer 6
Internet
Client
Email
Plugins
Browser
2003
Office
2007
Office
• Sandbox sharing
• Patch applications using sandbox
merge
Peace and Harmony • Allows multiple applications to run
at same time
ZENworks Virtualized Apps
® • Incompatible apps
• Efficiencies
Security Tools
Management Tools • Streaming The ROI Factor
Hardware Drivers • 60% savings on
Windows OS application testing,
packaging and support
• 5-7% saving of overall
Physical application management
Hardware
Source: Gartner April 2008,
ID#G00155897
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8. ZENworks Application Virtualization ®
• Quickly creates a new, easy to deploy application
• Zero setup on the host PC
• No user training or user experience change
• Launch applications on locked-down desktops
• Applications run isolated from host OS and registry
• Run conflicting applications
• Custom templates and 70+ certified applications
• Embed file system, registry, services and components
like .Net, Java Runtime and Adobe Reader
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9. ZENworks Application Virtualization ®
(cont.)
Fast Zero to Virtual Applications in 20 Minutes!
Simple No extra client or server architecture to manage
Compatible Sidestep software conflicts
The Bottom Line
In many cases, application virtualization
is faster, more flexibility, and has economic
advantages over other virtualization approaches.
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10. Application Isolation
Host Operating System
Virtual Application Compressed Executable
ZENworks Virtual Operating System Kernel
®
Application
File system reads and writes
Virtual Host File
Audience Question : File System System
What value do you see here?
Process and threading operations
Registry reads and writes
Virtual
Registry Host
Registry
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11. How Is Application Virtualization
Different from Software Packaging?
• Traditional software packaging allows you to re-
package software installers into MSI format so that the
software can be installed via MSI on the local machine
• Application virtualization packages the software in a
format that can be natively executed on a Windows
workstation, without any installation taking place
• This means that no changes occur to the Window's
registry or to the normal file system
– Changes are written to a sandbox that the administrator controls
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12. Virtual Desktop
• Virtual Desktop is the process by which a complete
desktop instance including OS, applications, device
connectivity is delivered either by stream or preinstall
• Uses a very different licensing model
• Requires significant bandwidth on deployment and
consistently if streaming
• Can exist as a runtime or network only service
• A very large project with multiple constituencies
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13. Protecting the Desktop Case 1
Incompatible Applications
• You need to deploy multiple versions of the same application
• You cannot install multiple versions of the same application
because it will break the registry and the desktop
environment
• Eg 1. Internet Explorer
– Windows XP SP3 or Windows 7 have IE 8
– You require IE6 for a specific web application
• Eg 2. Microsoft Access
– App built in Access 2000, but Office Professional 2007 is
the default OA application suite
• Solution – Build EXE or MSI installs for packaged apps
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14. Protecting the Desktop Case 2
Version Upgrade Testing
• You are standardized on Office 2007 but will receive via
Software Assurance Office 2010 in June
• The two do not peacefully coexist
• You need to test Office 2010 without removing Office
2007
• You need to do this testing on multiple versions of
Windows both 32 bit and 64 bit
• Solution – Build a 32 Bit and a 64 Bit version of Office
2010 and test as EXEs – no modification to the existing
installations
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15. Protecting the Desktop Case 3
• A Line of Business decision forces demand for
immediate deployment of a new application suite that
has to integrate with existing associations
• You don't have the time or the resources to do full
stress and recursion testing before you have to roll out
• All the money for testing went to user training
• Solution – Runtime EXE App using Xreg to do local
association
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16. What's In ZAV Today and Tomorrow
• Windows 7 support
• Internet Explorer 6 emulation mode and coexistence with Internet Explorer 7/8
• Application expiration
– Application can be configured to run for a specific number of days, or to expire
on a specific date
– Expiration dialog can be configured
• New Functions
– This option may be used to prevent interaction between virtualized and non-
virtualized versions of the same application
– The startup executable optimization option attempts to launch the startup
executable within the initial virtual machine
• Improved included Runtimes
– Added SQL Server 2005 Express
– Improved .Net 3.5 Client Profile process.
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17. What's In ZAV Today and Tomorrow
(cont.)
• Publish to USB
– Registers applications automatically on attachment
– Unregisters applications upon removal
– Converts Sandbox to USB drive
• XREG
– Tool that allows you to easily “register” a virtual application with the host
– Automatically configures the file associations and shortcuts on the host
– Can be used to “register” multiple virtual applications with a shared
sandbox
– Can also be used to unregister applications and clear the sandbox
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18. What's In ZAV Today and Tomorrow
(cont.)
• 64 Bit Support
– Exactly what it sounds like
• Streaming
– Instead of pushing the package out to the desktop, you want to
stream the V-App from a central location
– Bandwidth is available to support this
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19. Demonstration

20. What You'll See
• Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 8 Co-existing
• Two independent Office suites that would normally kill
each other, running at the same time
• How to build Firefox as a Virtual Application including
custom home page
• And... MAYBE a streamed app, if the code is ready in
time for us to build one (or more accurately if the code
is ready in time for RON to build one)
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21. Questions and Answers
Discussion

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