A few days ago, we talked about how mature MSIX really is (18 months away) and how it make sense for some enterprises to do a double hop over App-V to ease the transition. Today, I want to take you on a little journey that will take us three years into the future. While Access…
You might have noticed a lot of vendors in the application packaging space shouting from the rooftops that they are supporting MSIX, Microsoft’s new packaging format. Anyone who can run an automated PowerShell command to create and convert an app could technically claim MSIX support. However, it is easy to get carried away with the impression…
The internet holds a wealth of information, but sometimes it is hard to discern which information sources are reputable, helpful, and contain new insights worth the time to read the entire article — and which are just regurgitating other people’s ideas to put out content. To save you the time and effort, I have compiled…
Every line of business has its own unique lingo which often makes it hard for “outsiders” to follow a conversation. As an executive, whether you are a CEO, COO, CFO, or even a CIO, application packaging and testing terms can seem like a completely different language with their three and four letter acronyms. Today, I…
When I talk to enterprise IT managers, I am always surprised how few organizations are centralizing their application management — especially now that we have to test a large portion of our application portfolio on a monthly basis. Sure, the initial overhaul is tedious, boring, costly, and takes weeks if not months. It also requires…
Since the introduction of Windows-as-a-Service, Microsoft has been actively promoting a way to create universal applications that could leverage Windows 10 platform capabilities across all Windows devices: the Universal Windows Platform. But in the past months, more and more voices declared this common application platform dead, or at least close to extinction. Today, I want…
Believe it or not, there are still more than 385 million devices in enterprise environments that are running on Windows 7 — an operating system that has already lost its mainstream support on January 13, 2015 and will now finally get cut off from extended support on January 14, 2020! While Windows 10 is estimated to catch up by November of this…
What drives you crazy at work? Is it your co-worker having every single call on speakerphone and later accusing you of eavesdropping? Cutting her fingernails during a conference call? Eating a smelly tuna sandwich at his desk — every single day without a fail? But if you are an operational packaging manager your pet peeve might…
According to a new SpiceWorks State of IT – Trends, Budgets, and Purchase Drivers study, the biggest driver for enterprises to embrace virtualization and cloud computing is to (1) reduce the support burden on IT staff (33%) — followed closely by (2) increase their flexibility and scalability, (3) enhance disaster recovery capabilities, (4) provide their…
There are certain “gotchas” you can have a laugh about afterwards — but not planning your IT automation implementation adequately, and implementing inefficient processes that might be adjusted or, even worse, redone later on probably isn’t one of those times. Today, we are going to explore five common pitfalls enterprise IT organizations often stumble over as…
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