Liquidware’s Day One Support for Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop Delivers Just-In-Time Apps, Migrates users with Zero Downtime
October 10, 2019Liquidware,
the leader in adaptive workspace management, today announced support
for Microsoft WVD. Liquidware is an inaugural value-added partner for
Microsoft’s WVD platform. With a decade long reputation in the virtual
and cloud-based desktop industry, Liquidware provides critical solutions
that hasten new workspace adoption. The company’s User Management,
Application Layering, and Monitoring and Diagnostics offerings are
ideally suited for Microsoft WVD.
Liquidware’s FlexApp layering
is a key solution to assist in WVD deployments. FlexApp streamlines
base- image management by dynamically attaching applications as VHD
layers from Microsoft Azure cloud storage to users’ WVD workspaces. A
video demonstration of Microsoft WVD and FlexApp layering can be seen here.
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FlexApp
is a perfect complement to Microsoft’s forthcoming MSIX App Attach
technology. FlexApp provides a single point of delivery for MSIX
applications as well as any other native current or legacy application
type including MSI, App-V, and EXE applications and installers.
Scott
Manchester, principal engineering lead for WVD at Microsoft recently
discussed the partnership with TechRepublic saying, “Take a solution
provider like Liquidware, who provides a variety of different layering
solutions. They now will be able to take an App-V package, an MSIX
package or their layers and through a single portal allow customers to
choose which option they want to make those apps available to end users
in their web environment.”
FlexApp’s flexibility in supported
application types and enterprise functionality leads the industry with
advanced features including:
• The highest application compatibility – 90% or greater
• Seamless compatibility with complex applications, including those with drivers and services dependencies
•
Zero isolation – FlexApp attached applications are not isolated and
therefore have native interaction capabilities with Windows and other
applications
• FlexApps work across any supported Windows OS with no need to repackage applications
• FlexApps are flexible and can be attached at boot, login, with Click-to-Layer, or by context-aware filter
•
FastPackaging technology – enabling applications to easily be packaged
in the same time it takes to install the application one-time
Another
key advantage is provided by Liquidware ProfileUnity that supports
seamless migrations to WVD. Using the solution, organizations can
experience zero downtime when switching users’ workspaces to this
platform. A video demonstration of Microsoft WVD with FSLogix and
ProfileUnity can be seen here.
Moreover, the solution can on-board users to FSLogix profile containers
on WVD and Windows multi-session 10 EVD from other Microsoft operating
systems or virtual desktop platforms.
“Our adaptive workspace
management solutions add significant value to WVD through benefits such
as streamlined base image management and a seamless co-existence or
migration from any other desktop platform. We also complement FSLogix
deployments by enabling cross-OS compatibility and quick backup and
restore of FSLogix profile containers from Azure,” stated J. Tyler
Rohrer, co-founder and Director of Strategic Alliances at Liquidware.
“Having been selected as an inaugural ecosystem partner when WVD was
first announced in September 2018, we are now ‘locked and loaded’ to
assist customers and partners to move to WVD. We envision our solutions
being key to enabling WVD rapid adoption in the coming months.”
Customers
reviewing WVD are eligible for trial licenses of all solutions in
Liquidware’s Adaptive Workspace Management suite known as Liquidware
Essentials. For customers looking at general information on WVD and the
cost ramifications, Liquidware has authored a white paper that includes a cost calculator to assist organizations in their understanding of the benefits of WVD.