Citrix Whitepaper - Accelerating Microsoft Windows Vista Migrations with Citrix Presentation Server 4.5
For many organizations, it is not a question of “If” they will migrate to Windows® Vista™, but “When”. This is causing companies to start asking the difficult questions such as: When will their mission-critical applications support Vista? When will enough of their PCs be upgraded to meet system requirements? When can they complete regression testing and workarounds for any uncovered compatibility issues? When can they get the budget and IT cycles to make all of this happen?
What if there were ways to circumvent these challenges and deliver any application to any client? What if the same applications in use today could be delivered to users of Vista machines –without requiring native Vista support? What if clients that did not meet the system requirements for the 2007 Microsoft Office system could access all the newest applications anyway? What if DLL conflicts and other compatibility challenges became non-issues? Migration would be much faster, easier, and more affordable.
Recent developments in the application virtualization and application streaming capabilities of Citrix Presentation Server™ 4.5 can be leveraged to accelerate adoption of Windows Microsoft Vista.
This white paper describes how Presentation Server 4.5 can be used to help companies simplify and accelerate their migration to Windows Vista by using Presentation Server to deliver both older legacy applications which are not Windows Vista compatible, as well as newer applications that are being introduced with the Vista rollout, such as the 2007 Microsoft Office system. This paper will explain how Presentation Server can be of benefit for both sets of applications to ensure that your Vista deployment is as fast, cost-effective and painless to the company and end-users as possible. This paper explores the new features of Presentation Server 4.5 which enable applications to be delivered to end-users for both online and offline use. Additionally, this paper will discuss how Presentation Server applications integrate with the Windows® desktop to allow users to work seamlessly between both locally installed and Presentation Server applications, whether they are virtualized or streamed.
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