4.9. Application Virtualization

One of the biggest high points of getting the MCITP enterprise-level certification is that it indicates you have the ability to support a multifaceted, multiplatform, multiuser environment. Before the release of Windows Server 2008, most of the IT implementations of on-demand applications and services usually involved deploying many different platforms. Certain programs would run only on Windows version X, other ones required version Y, and so forth. Most enterprises ended up with a collection of different computers and peripherals strewn around the facilities. Although this solution ultimately did the job (sort of), it didn't do it in a particularly elegant or cost-efficient way.

Windows Server 2008 makes the ...

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