This will take a snapshot of your system state before the application is installed. The first step of the capture process is to perform the PreScan. If my primary OS is Windows 7 圆4, I capture on Windows 7 圆4. I tend to use the target platform for capturing these days. Preferably a virtual machine so you can take a clean snapshot once you have put the capture tool on the VM. You download a zip file from and unzip it on a machine. Well, there really is no setup, so to speak. Everything about this solution is pretty simple. Is that you can carry your applications around with you on removable storage and use them anywhere from any windows machine. The beauty of a portable solution such as this though. So, if you thought you could take your app and use it on your MAC or Linux machine, think again. Most applications will leverage some sort of system files to function which are unique to Windows. ![]() Now, note, I just stated Windows machine, this is because portable does not mean the app will work on any Operating System, isolated applications does not mean the application no longer requires an operating systems system files to function. Making it portable for use on any Windows machine, since it doesn’t need a client installed to work or any backend servers. So essentially, the agent or client which needs to be installed for App-V, is actually just built into every application. The executable also obviously contains the vendors own solution to ensure the application launches and finds what it needs in the isolated location etc. ![]() the registry, files, folders, services, environment variables etc.to and also provides isolation into one executable. Portable solutions encapsulate everything required for the application to function i.e. You will see with solutions such as App-V and Symantec Workspace Streaming which require you to install a client or agent software piece on your end user devices in order to publish applications for those users to leverage. I have mentioned in my blogs on other application virtualization technologies that most of the Application virtualization solutions provide the capability and produce applications which provide what I refer to as ‘portable’ applications. This one is very simplistic, very straight forward to setup and very straight forward to use. This time with Portable Apps Suite or P-Apps. Back again with yet another application virtualization solution.
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