Malcolm Bullock - Optimising Infrastructure for business benefit : MDOP

Application Virtualization 4.5 Documentation

mbullock — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:24:22 GMT

There has been a host of documentation and announcements around Application Virtualisation recently. I would suggest that you read the App-V team blog here . Of note though are several whitepapers that have been produced to help you evaluate, and deploy...(read more)

Free Gartner reports on Vista and MDOP

mbullock — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:54:15 GMT

The reports will be here until 12th March 2009 Quantifying the Value of Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol4/article6/article6.html How to Quantify the Value of Software Assurance for Windows Client...(read more)

Technet Magazine – Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualisation

mbullock — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:30:33 GMT

As you’ll know if you read my blog – I love Application Virtualisation. It solves so many problems with the packaging, deployment, and management of desktop and server based applications. Technet magazine has published a great introduction to Application...(read more)

Virtualization Launch Day - Summary

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:19:20 GMT

[Update - this post seemed to get lost so I'm posting again - apologies if you get it twice!] I thought that I would try to summarise what we launched this week, pull together the case studies, 3rd party analysis, etc. The launch has been well blogged...(read more)

Important Desktop Virtualisation Announcements

mbullock — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:21:21 GMT

Hi Folks, I can do no better than point you at This blog post from the MDOP product team. But if you need further encouragement, besides covering the new Windows Virtualization 4.5 (latest Softgrid release) in some detail they also announce new really...(read more)