Chapter 8. Deploying Applications

  • Preparing the Lab 248

  • Planning Deployment 249

  • Choosing a Deployment Strategy 253

  • Automating Installation 257

  • Repackaging Legacy Applications 262

  • Injecting in a Disk Image 264

  • Summary 270

  • Additional Resources 271

Deploying applications is an important aspect of desktop deployment. Choosing the applications you want to deploy, and deciding how to deploy them, affects the choices that you make when deploying the operating system. For example, will you include applications in the operating system image or deploy them later? Including applications in the operating system image provides good performance but low flexibility; deploying them later provides poorer performance but higher flexibility and lower maintenance costs. ...

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