Compressing or not compressing during sequencing has benefits and disadvantages:- Compressed . The sequenced stream will be smaller; this can be useful where storage is of concern, or more probable, where the network utilisation is of concern. Compressing...

No. Once a computer is using virtual applications deployed in this way it can not longer 'switch' back to streaming mode. By 'switch' I mean run in mixed-mode or easily go back to streamed mode. The client will either work in machine context offline mode...

The new MSI Utility has been announced (formally WiAVE); check out the product teams' blog here and for more information on client side application licensing see my blog entry here . Using the MSI Utility we are now pre-caching the virtual application...

There is a simple answer to this, and of course, a more complex one. Simple answer. No. The virtual application is read only and cannot be infected once it has been sequenced. Complex answer. There are several places a virus or malware can be introduced...

I noted an issue yesterday where an application took over 40 seconds to launch on a Windows Vista client. After the usual investigation methods (was it sequenced on Vista, is the Cache ok, running performance monitoring tools, event logs, SG logs, etc...