This document discusses various application compatibility solutions for migrating to Windows 7, including Application Virtualization (App-V), Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), and the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT). It provides an overview of each solution, how they work, their benefits, and how they can help address application compatibility challenges during a Windows 7 migration. App-V provides application isolation and streaming. MED-V creates a virtual Windows XP environment for applications not compatible with Windows 7. ACT helps identify and resolve application compatibility issues through shims and standard user analyzer.

1. Tony Krijnen
IT Pro Evangelist
tony.krijnen@microsoft.com
Daniel van Soest
IT Pro Evangelist
danielvs@microsoft.com
Wow! In 30
Minutes?
Yeah, right!

2. How much is this app compat
thing going to cost me?
Should I just stay on
Windows XP?
Why did you break half of my
software?
Why can’t my company
afford a chair for me?
Can I just stroke a check and
have this problem go away? Doesn’t App-V just fix it all
for me?
All I need to do is run ACT long
enough, and it’s fixed, right?
No, seriously, can I have a
chair, please?
The MED-V brochure said just
virtualize it all and migrate. The tool brochure said it
fixes 90% of the problems.
The Internets said to just turn
off UAC.
Listen, I’m not talking
about App Compat until I
get a chair.

3. Windows 7 / Windows Vista Changes
The infamous User Account Control
Even administrators run as “standard user”
The single biggest app-compat hit, ever

4. Application Compatibility Toolkit
Great at inventory
Some agent data can be useful
Standard User Analyzer makes us happy
Creates Shims (Layer of Lies)
Applied to specific apps
Changes what the app thinks it sees
Does not change what app is allowed to do

6. MED-V helps
Windows 7
Deployments
Easy Hard
Number
of Apps
Low
High
Migration Difficulty
Addressing Application Compatibility

7. MED-V is part of the MDOP subscription

8. Application Compatibility Solutions for Windows 7
A preconfigured virtual Windows XP SP3 (32bit)
environment
Easy to install your applications on Windows XP and
run from Windows 7 desktop
Well integrated into Windows 7
Designed for small businesses and consumers

9. Deploy virtual Windows XP instances that are domain
joined and customized
Provision applications to end users
Redirect web applications automatically to IE6
Maintain and Support endpoints through monitoring
and troubleshooting
Application Compatibility Solutions for Windows 7

11. Client Architecture

12. MED-V v1 Architecture
Software
Distribution

13. Just Announced – MED-V 2.0
IT Pro: Simple and easier to deploy
System Center integration
No additional infrastructure to deploy
Simplified application deployment
Full enterprise scalability
End-user
Tight integration with Windows 7 and Windows VPC
Experience designed for Windows 7
Beta now available on connect.microsoft.com

15. Difficult
Apps
Enables your migration to Windows 7
Test your applications and identify your “difficult”
applications
Test Migrate
Use MED-V to Unblock andAccelerate Your
Windows 7 Deployment
Upgrade OS

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17. Tony Krijnen
IT Pro Evangelist
tony.krijnen@microsoft.com
Daniel van Soest
IT Pro Evangelist
danielvs@microsoft.com

18. APP-V is part of the MDOP subscription

19. Desktop vs. Application
Virtualization
Applications
Operating System
Hardware
®

20. Microsoft Application Virtualization
Readily Accessible Apps
Easy App Lifecycle
Management
Accelerate Application
Recovery
Reduced Application
Conflicts
Minimize app-to-app
compatibility testing
Virtualize Application
Centralized Permissions
Application “Streaming”
Application Isolation
Real-time metering
reports
What it Does Benefits

21. SystemGuardTM
Environment A SystemGuardTM
Environment B
Windows Operating System
Side by Side Application Virtualization
Data System Services Configurations
(Profile and
Documents)
(Windows Services, COM,
OLE, Printers, Fonts,
Cut&Paste)
(Registry. INI Files,
DLLs, Etc.

23. Microsoft Application Virtualization
Dynamically streaming software as a centrally managed service
Application
Sequencing and
Virtualization
Flexible
Infrastructure
with Multiple
Delivery Options
Policy Based
application
management
Application
Virtualization
Client
Microsoft Application Virtualization Platform

24. Broadening Windows
Platform Coverage
• 64-bit Windows
Support
• Win7 AppLocker
• Win7 BitLocker
• Win7 BranchCache
• Supporting 13
languages
Office 2010 User
Productivity
Enhancements
• SharePoint integration
to open, save, and edit
documents
• Find inbox items
quickly with Outlook
Fast Search
• Connect to your inbox
using Outlook Send To
functionality
Optimized Server Disk
Storage using App-V
in VDI scenarios
• Shared application
cache
• Reduced storage
requirements on SAN
Core Management
Capabilities
• 64-bit app support
• Sequencing
• Launching
• SCCM integration
Microsoft App-V 4.6

26. Broadening Windows
Platform Coverage
• 64-bit Windows
Support
• Win7 AppLocker
• Win7 BitLocker
• Win7 BranchCache
• Supporting 13
languages
Office 2010 User
Productivity
Enhancements
• SharePoint integration
to open, save, and edit
documents
• Find inbox items
quickly with Outlook
Fast Search
• Connect to your inbox
using Outlook Send To
functionality
Optimized Server Disk
Storage using App-V
in VDI scenarios
• Shared application
cache
• Reduced storage
requirements on SAN
Core Management
Capabilities
• 64-bit app support
• Sequencing
• Launching
• SCCM integration
Microsoft App-V 4.6

27. Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V
Required for:
Office 2010 Licensing – client activation
Optional for:
Virtual Proxies – for 32-bit Office 2010 packages
Fast Search in Outlook
Work on documents in SharePoint library
Send to OneNote printer
Mail control panel applet
Simple MAPI
Office Document indexing

28. Windows Operating System
SystemGuardTM
Environment
ActiveX
Control
Local environment
ActiveX Control
(Altered to be
Virtual Environment
Aware)
Virtual Proxy Overview

30. SystemGuardTM
Environment A SystemGuardTM
Environment B
Windows Operating System
Independent Virtual EnvironmentsInter Applications Communications

31. SystemGuardTM
Environment
Windows Operating System
Combined Virtual Environment

32. Windows Operating System
Application Sharing Using DSC
Middleware Application

33. Application Virtualization recommendations
Sequence with
Office:
Live Meeting
Office Communicator
Common add-ins to everyone
SharePoint (included with
Deployment Kit)
Dynamic Suite
Composition:
Add-ins
LOB Plug-ins

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