AdminStudio Virtualization Pack: Features

Prepare for Application Virtualization Suitability and Manage Virtual Packages

 

AdminStudio Virtualization Pack prepares software for reliable application virtualization deployment with a complete set of virtualization suitability testing, automated conversion, validation, editing and management reporting capabilities. It automates the conversion of MSIs and legacy installers to virtual application formats, ensuring a consistent approach that is up to 9 times faster than using native tools, reducing the cost and duration of a migration project.

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Virtualization Suitability Testing

Automatically tests desktop applications including Microsoft® App-V, VMware® ThinApp™ and Citrix® XenApp as well as Microsoft Server App-V applications to determine their suitability for conversion and deployment as virtual applications. More

The solution categorizes application issues, presenting them in a single view that visually indicates which issues are automatically resolvable, which are fixable and which will be complex to resolve. Suitability testing eliminates the trial-and-error approach to migrating applications to virtual formats.

Suitability Test Results on Virtualization Suitability View
Suitability Test Results on Virtualization Suitability View

 

Automated Application Converter (Multiple Applications)

Automated conversion of Windows Installer packages (MSIs) and legacy installers to Microsoft® App-V, Citrix XenApp & VMware ThinApp. More

Convert multiple applications at a time. Detects and converts packages that contain custom actions on a virtual machine. Automated approach is 9x faster than manual conversion tools. 

Automated Application Converter

   

Automated Application Converter (Single Application)

Automated conversion of Windows Installer packages (MSIs) and legacy installers to Microsoft® App-V, Citrix XenApp & VMware ThinApp. More

Detects and converts packages that contain custom actions on a virtual machine. Automated approach is 9x faster than manual conversion tools.

Conflict Testing and Validation of Microsoft® App-V Packages

Ability to customize, test, validate and edit MSI packages is extended to virtual formats, so packagers can manage a virtual package with the same tool and processes as a traditional package. You can run conflict and validation tests of packages to ensure they won't conflict with each other or with other physically deployed applications and to ensure that they conform to best-practice packaging.
 

Direct Editing of Microsoft App-V Packages

The Virtual Package Editor enables direct editing of App-V packages, eliminating the need to reconvert from an MSI when a change to an App-V package is required. More

Editing Microsoft App-V Packages

Virtualization Component Searching

Search virtual applications in the catalog for specific components (i.e. files).
 

Support for Multiple Virtualization Formats

Only AdminStudio can convert applications to any of of the leading types of virtual packages including Microsoft® App-V, VMware® ThinApp and Citrix® XenApp. More

AdminStudio gives you the ability to quickly convert applications into Microsoft® App-V™, VMware® ThinApp™* and Citrix® XenApp™ virtual packages. It's the only packaging solution that lets you choose from multiple virtualization formats, so you can pick the format or formats that best fits different situations.

AdminStudio comes with Microsoft, VMware and Citrix Assistants that save you time and effort by walking you through the virtualization process in minutes, including the customizing of virtual packages. It gives you complete control over every aspect of virtual packages, from modifying registry settings to controlling isolation options at a granular level, quickly and easily.

*Requires separate purchase of VMware ThinApp

External Shortcut Support for Microsoft® App-V

Support external shortcuts, such as plug-ins, for Microsoft® App-V packages.

Create a Portable "Wrapper MSI"

For Microsoft® App-V build outputs, a Windows Installer "wrapper" can be generated and used to deploy the App-V package on the App-V client. The wrapper MSI is portable and can be more easily moved from one network location to another.

Microsoft App-V Support - 32x and 64x

For Microsoft® App-V™ customers, AdminStudio now supports the conversion of MSI and .EXEs to the SFT format used by Microsoft App-V. AdminStudio supports App-V version 4.6. More
Simultaneously create a 64-bit Windows Installer package (MSI) and a 64-bit Microsoft App-V package, saving time and effort. AdminStudio accelerates virtual deployments by reformatting applications into the App-V format natively, without the use of the multi-step App-V Sequencer tool. At this time, AdminStudio will be the only application readiness solution set that can natively support the App-V format, reducing costs and increasing reliability for App-V implementations.

VMware ThinApp Support

For VMware® ThinApp™ customers, AdminStudio now supports the latest version of the VMware application virtualization product, version 4.0.3 as well as the previous Thinstall® Virtualization Suite 3.2.

Citrix XenApp Support

For Citrix® XenApp™ 5 and 6 customers, AdminStudio supports the Citrix application delivery system as well as the product formerly called Citrix Presentation Server.

Virtual Application Suiting

Suite several applications together in a single virtual container, enabling them to work together properly. More

AdminStudio can now suite several applications together in a single virtual container, enabling them to work together properly.

Now, for example, if your organization is virtualizing Microsoft® Outlook®, you can also virtualize Adobe® Reader® in the same container so that those two applications can "talk" to each other and function seamlessly without any interoperability issues.

Although limited communication capabilities are now becoming more available from the leading virtualization vendors, this feature addresses the concern of many organizations who are implementing application virtualization projects – the ability to place several applications in a single container (location) to ensure that they are able to function properly within their end user's environments.

With virtual application suiting, AdminStudio solves the isolated "interoperability" issue that organizations had been experiencing. It addresses one of the most prevalent hurdles that had been slowing the adoption of application virtualization, regardless of the vendor technology.

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