Chapter 7. Integrating App-V with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Most organizations today are continuously trying to adapt to a world where agility and resource optimization are some of the main goals. Handling the user's work environment (defined mostly by desktop, applications, and profile data) more efficiently has a direct impact on how we can achieve those goals.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) appears as a new approach to how organizations can centralize the management of that work environment. With VDI, not only do we receive benefits specific to hardware optimization but, we also gain agility in the deployment and maintenance of the user's environment by using consistent settings, thus minimizing the impact in support hours.

But VDI does not apply to all organizations; there are several considerations we should evaluate carefully before making any decision on selecting the infrastructure to be used. As with any big implementation, most of the challenges we'll receive are...