LANDesk® Application Virtualization 8.8

LANDesk® Application Virtualization lets you seamlessly run multiple applications on individual systems without installing anything on or making changes to a client system and without installing agents or device drivers.

• True isolation
• Client-Less Architecture and Instant Zero-Footprint Deployment
• Enterprise security
• Sandboxing
• Integration with LANDesk® Management Suite

True Isolation

• Isolates the application from the OS without device drivers, back-end servers or desktop agents; applications talk to the OS, but don’t see other isolated virtual applications.
• Allows for applications—even two versions of one application—to run from the same system without conflict.
• Packages the entire runtime environment in a self-contained executable that requires no installation, system modifications or elevated security privileges.

Client-Less Architecture and Instant Zero-Footprint Deployment

• Loads and initializes in a fraction of a second, even when the packaged .EXE is gigabytes in size or located on a network share.
• Allows applications to run from any LAN, WAN, USB drive or CD-ROM—no client agents, device drivers or back-end support servers required.
• Lets you enable users to launch an application from a local shortcut, network share, URL or email link.
• Streams large applications from any networked storage device without added server infrastructure requirements.
• Lets you roll back to a predeployment state without impact or a reboot.
• Improves performance by decompressing blocks of data directly into memory—no local PC disk cache required, reducing needed bandwidth by two to three times.
• Supports Microsoft Office, out-of-process COM, services-based COM, manifest policy processing and side-by-side DLL resolution; Microsoft Word can be loaded and running in under a second.
• Consolidates terminal and MetaFrame servers to eliminate the need to create machine silos for specific applications.
• Instantly runs applications across different Windows OSes without any file or path name conflicts.
• Supports virtualized applications on all 32-bit Windows platforms—NT, 2000, XP and Vista—without installation, drivers, reboots or administrator access.

Enterprise Security

• Runs applications exclusively in user mode with no kernel-mode code or device drivers:
  • Makes it virtually impossible to crash a system.
  • Requires no additional privileges to run an application.
  • Prevents local security policies from being violated by kernel-mode calls.
  • Eliminates conflicts with the Windows Vista User Account Control mechanism.
• Ensures system stability by limiting application changes to specific user-mode sandboxes.
• Lets you build rights directly into the application package, eliminating the need to give applications administrator privileges.
• Lets you use Active Directory to limit access to specific sets of users.

Sandboxing

• Redirects application changes to an isolated per-user, per-application sandbox, protecting the host PC from modifications.
• Stores sandboxes locally or on a network share so users can take application settings from machine to machine.
• Allows applications to be rolled back per-user.

Integration with LANDesk® Management Suite

• Lets you create and deploy packages to thousands of computers in less than an hour by using LANDesk® Targeted Multicast™ technology to deploy virtualized applications as if they were simply large document files.
• Conserves hard drive space by deploying virtualized applications to high-speed network subnets at branch offices; users can stream compressed applications directly into memory from the LAN, no local installation or caching is required.
• Lets you discover and inventory user virtual applications.