App Compatibility

What cannot be virtualized

Not all applications can be virtualized, and discovery work is often required to review each application prior to virtualization. Virtualization is certainly a good solution for parts of your application management portfolio. Although toolsets vary the typical virtualization restrictions are shown in the following table. Remote IT Solutions can identify these issues early within the packaging or virtualization process.

Complex actions in Virtualized applications fail if the following are integral to the application:

• System level drivers (i.e. printer or USB device drivers)
• Boot time service requirements
• COM+
• DLLs that run in dllhost.exe
• Licensing tied to a physical machine
• Applications that when sequenced are over 4GB in size
• Applications that start services at boot time
• Applications that are a part of the OS
• Antivirus

Application Compatibility & Remediation

We can help identify which applications are compatible for your target platform by testing for compatibility. We can also help identify which applications can co-exist and which deployment platforms/mechanism would best fit each application. Not only that, we can offer remediation of those applications.

So where are you going with your applications?

Using software we can expedite static testing, cutting down on time and effort, providing accurate results. We can help:

• Application compatibility testing (pre-migration)
• Eliminate the guess work from application migration projects
• Identify those applications that might be unsuitable for the target platform and recommend other methods for roll out of those rogue applications
• Management reporting information for use by business and budget owners in a non-technical format
• Remediation

Using software tools we can provide:

• Predictive analysis to identify install and run-time issues
• Detailed information will assist software developers/packagers for specific problem identification and remediation recommendations