FSLogix Apps is a software agent that enables virtual desktop administrators to massively reduce the number of Windows Gold images, easily manage per-user applications, optimise license costs while assuring compliance, and eliminate some of their biggest problems in VDI and RDSH.
Administrators have more applications and workspace variations to deal with than ever. And traditional application virtualisation products often add undesirable overhead and still can’t address all use cases. FSLogix enables enterprises to easily go from way too many images, to a single Unified Base Image, without repackaging applications, ever.
STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY
Using “image masking”, a single Windows image can serve any number of users by presenting only what they’re allowed to see. Applications are normally installed and run natively, without the performance impact associated with isolation or streaming products. FSLogix Apps is as simple as possible, with no sequencing or packaging of applications required.
ULTIMATE DESKTOP FLEXIBILITY
With the ability to merge centralised profiles and applications from App Containers into the user’s desktop, FSLogix offers the most flexible and powerful solution to transform workspace management that’s available today.
FSLogix Apps 2.0 uses a unique approach in the industry, called Image Masking. This allows applications to be installed into any Windows environment, physical or virtual, exactly as intended by the software vendor, using the standard MSI or installation tools. With a superset of applications installed on one gold image, all users get the same image and FSLogix Apps simply hides all the apps they are not allowed to see. This can be managed at such a granular scale that Office Add-ins, browser plugins, printers, fonts, and any other element of a user’s desktop may be customised instantly from one image. Add to this the ability to locate additional applications and profiles in remote volumes, and you have the simplest and most flexible profile and application delivery and management tool available.
FSLogix Apps is completely different than any other application delivery solution. Here are just a few of the unique benefits FSLogix Apps customers find the most useful:
JAVA REDIRECTION
Manage multiple Java Versions With Ease
FSLogix Apps uses advanced filtering and a patent pending type of virtualisation called image masking to enable Java redirection and our other core functionality. This process is transparent to the client operating system and integrates seamlessly with all Windows based infrastructure.
LICENSING
Enforcing Application Entitlement
Image Masking works with Active Directory to allow pass-through of authorised applications to a user workspace, creating fully customised, role-specific environments in real time.
Recognized by leading software vendors like Microsoft® and Citrix® for solutions that enforce both user and device based software license control, FSLogix Apps provides a single method to provision applications across all your Windows™ infrastructure while maintaining compliance and optimizing for your company’s licensing agreements.
PROFILE CONTAINERS
Real-time access to User Profiles with no folder redirection
Instead of placing all of the user’s files on a network share like in the redirected files approach, FSLogix encapsulates the entire profile –including the registry– in an in-guest container.
- Eliminates file server bottleneck
- Eliminates the need for “Just-in-time” file copying
- Solves the problem of virtual applications running over the network
- Dramatically reduces logon times and application launch times
APPLICATION CONTAINERS
For environments with limited disk space or unique configuration
FSLogix Apps Application Containers allow administrators to contain the data and executable files of an application in an in-guest container. Based on visibility and masking rules, applications are seamlessly attached to a user session and run as if locally installed in the base.
TOP 10 REASONS TO USE FSLOGIX APPS
- Massively reduce the number of Windows gold images in your environment
- Eliminate silos/pools in XenApp and VDI
- Make non-persistent VDI a reality
- Solve profile issues and eliminate folder redirection in VDI or XenApp
- Simplify DR/BC for virtual desktops
- Implement VDI and DaaS without legacy overhead
- Manage multiple applications versions easily
- Simple version control and rollback for updates
- Ensure license compliance for all users and all apps on all Windows infrastructures
- Granularity to feature level for Office add-ins, browser plugins, printer visibility, fonts and more
ABOUT FSLOGIX
FSLogix is a leading innovator of solutions that enable the enterprise virtual workspace, reducing the amount of hardware, time and labor required to support cloud and virtual desktops. FSLogix Apps seamlessly integrates with desktop virtualisation solutions from Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, and other industry leaders. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, with offices in Orem, UT and Chelmsford, Essex, UK. For more information, visit www.fslogix.com.
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