AppPlus and OSDPlus

dear me! i just cant keep up with all these new fantastic little tools that are being developed around little old app-v! The latest in a line of tools are from Duncan Murdoch who is developing OSD+.

AppPlus has just announced a beta program. It is designed to allow the App-V community to trial the functionality of OSD+, offer feedback and make feature requests, before the first fully available version is released to the public.

There are some really handy features in this tool;

No App-V infrastructure required for application testing
File streaming capabilities into App-V client
Launch Application from inside the GUI
Launch troubleshooting tools inside the application's virtual environment
Create manifest files for SCCM and 3rd party delivery software integration
Edit OSD files safely
Create "dynamic suite compositions" with the click of a button
Import registry files into the OSD file
Restore OSD files to previous save points
App-V 4.6 support

I have been using it for some time. And there are some cool items such as osd restore points for the times when you played with the OSD a little bit too much.