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licensing obligations. Virtualized applications can be streamed to multiple computers,
making it more challenging to ensure that instances of the application for which the
organization is not licensed are not being run.
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Application metering
You can generate historical data, recording how often an
application is used and by which clients.
When you use the App-V full infrastructure model, you should ensure that Publishing
Servers have high-speed connections to the clients that use these applications. This ensures
that users who use streaming applications get access to them quickly. Users who access
applications from publishing servers located across wide area network (WAN) links have to
wait much longer for their applications to open than users who access publishing servers on
the local area network (LAN).
The App-V full infrastructure model is appropriate for organizations that:
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Need support for streamed applications.
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Need authentication, instance limitation, and metering.
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Have not already deployed Configuration Manager.
If an organization does not need to support streamed applications and does not require
authentication, instance limitation, and metering functionality, it could use the standalone
deployment method, which needs less infrastructure investment.
Standalone deployment model
The standalone deployment model is the least infrastructure-intensive version of application
virtualization. It needs only a computer configured as an App-V Sequencer and clients with
the App-V client installed. The standalone deployment model does not need a Management
Server database, Publishing Server, or Management Server.
In the standalone deployment model, you use the App-V Sequencer to create sequenced
App-V applications as packages in MSI format. You then deploy those sequenced applica-
tions in the same way you would deploy other applications in MSI format―for example, by
using Group Policy, Microsoft Intune, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, or
third-party application deployment technologies. The primary difference between deploying
a traditional application in MSI format and deploying a sequenced, virtualized application in
MSI format is that with the virtualized applications, you have to ensure that the App-V client
is installed on the target device.
The standalone deployment model is appropriate for organizations that:
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Want the benefit of virtualized applications but do not need metering or application
streaming.
Want to deploy virtualized applications to clients on the Internet through Intune.
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Need to deploy only a small number of virtualized applications and so do not need to
deploy the App-V full infrastructure model Configuration Manager.
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