Hands-on: Packaging Best Practices for Application Virtualization and Streaming

Successful implementation of application virtualization starts with good packaging. Altiris Systems Engineer and packaging wizard Chris Berninger covers all the key concepts in this top notch combination of presentation and hands-on lab. We haven't checked the final stats yet, but we're betting this was rated as one of the very best sessions all week in Orlando.

Topics covered include:

• Cleanly package multiple installations and configuration items into the same layer
• Package an installation which requires a reboot
• Using Wise Package Studio to package with a repeatable process
• Adding delivery-time logic to a Virtial Software Package
• Wrapping an MSI to be "SVS Enabled"

The Virtualize.zip file attached below is a Wise Package Studio workflow for creating Virtual Software Packages. Chris came up with this workflow himself and mentioned it in the lab session. Shared here for your benefit. Chris tells us, "we're adding some new, cool stuff to this workflow... (we have a) prototype ... of a process which has a few steps at the end to call the Streaming Server's command line to convert the VSA to a streamable one, and then to upload it to the back-end. As this gets improved, we can update Juice and work ... to get it in the (WPS) product."