A.8. Chapter 7: Understanding Microsoft Application Virtualization and Streaming

Understand and apply App-V terminology.

App-V introduces many new concepts to traditional application deployment and requires new language.

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A key concept in understanding App-V streaming is the minimum launch threshold. Describe the minimum launch threshold and how this is important in a free-seating scenario.

Solution

The minimum launch threshold is the runtime of an application (typically 5–15 percent of the total disk footprint of an application) that streams down initially to a user. Having to load only this threshold to launch and use an application reduces the time an application takes to load the first time it is launched on a computer. This can ...

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