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The 2008 Microsoft World Partner Conference (WPC) was hosted in Houston, TX on July7-10, 2008, with global participation. The WPC provides an online and in-person forum to learn more about business growth opportunities and product innovation from Microsoft executives.

This year the ECMF team participated at the event and provide a showcase that incorporated the manageability of Intel vPro in a real world scenario that utilized application virtualization and steaming. For the showcase the team used SCCM SP1 R2 beta as an enterprise management console with Microsoft's App-V (Soft grid 4.5 beta) to stream and manage applications to the vPro clients.

This provides the ability to:

  • Dynamically deliver application on the world's most manageable clients
  • Enable greater business agility with an enhanced end-user experience
  • Achieve IT "Green Computing" and reduced TCO objectives via fine-grained update controls.

After the event, I sat down with Craig Pierce to record the demonstration. I think it is a very compelling 4 minutes of video. In the demo he shows both the server console and the client experience, and launches 2 versions of Microsoft Word (2007 & 2003), which share drivers and normally wouldn't be able to run on the same machine. This concept can be extended to many other applications.


Application Virtualization and streaming allows you to no longer go through the entire install process, but simply stream and execute the applications you need when you need them - and the licenses for these applications can then be reclaimed when your not using them. This should become a defacto standard over time, as it works well in all compute models (from the rich client models to thin clients).

Questions? Comments? Funny remarks?

-Jason A. Davidson
p.s. Thank you to Chris Kaneshiro, Sophia Stalliviere, Nicole Trent, and Gunitika Dandona for your help in filming & editing this video.

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Jul 22, 2008 12:45 PM Reply Guest Jason Kennedy

Very compelling stuff. It's great to see how Intel and Microsoft have teamed on vPro System Center and Application Virtualization up to deliver a unique solution with business value for both end user and IT.

Jul 23, 2008 3:07 PM Reply Click to view Sophia.Stalliviere's profile Sophia.Stalliviere

We are coming of age with virtualization. One is able to pull up two different versions of programs without disrupting any projects that one is working on. Previously, we would have two different word versions, with that, the documents that was on one version was not able to read on a newer version. Now you can bring up both versions without them going into conflict with each other.

My favorite part of this was how Craig Pierce showed how two different versions of programs could coexist on the same screen but they have no idea that they are there. We have always had the problem of pulling up two different versions of Microsoft; the system would just give error messages. Now they can hang out with each other in the same room and never know it.

I know this is not a new concept, and there were so much information that is published out there, but it is nonetheless exciting and so new to me. What would be a new VDI feature you would like to see? I would want to see multiple streaming without too much buffering. I want things to go faster. I have no patience!