Updated: July 9, 2020 (June 15, 2009)
Charts & IllustrationsDesktop Virtualization Options
Companies have a range of Microsoft technologies to use for virtualizing users’ desktops, each of which offers specific management advantages and disadvantages. Shown here are the most common ways that organizations move from a one-PC-per-user architecture (with locally installed applications running on a single OS) to a virtualized desktop to reduce cost, simplify patching, enforce policy, and ease application and OS compatibility testing.
| Type/Description | Management Tradeoffs |
| Application Virtualization (App-V). Specially configured application instance stored on a server is streamed to the PC where it runs in its own virtualized environment, isolated from other applications. | Allows desktop applications to be centrally deployed, updated, and managed. Gives administrators control over when applications can be used, by whom, and in what version or configuration. Reduces application conflicts. Applications must be compatible with the user’s installed OS, and some applications |
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