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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"&gt;Management is the key application for virtualization and the recent &lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7376214f-cba3-4e0d-81fe-ad52488be3a3&amp;amp;displaylang=en" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7376214f-cba3-4e0d-81fe-ad52488be3a3&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff&gt;release&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;of System Center Configuration Manager R2 along with System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack for App-V 4.5 severs eliminate the need for separate tools to deploy, manage and track licenses for App-V 4.5 applications.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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