Zen App replacement

[OneWaySWB]

Hello,

 

We have pretty finished our migration from Novell to AD but one thing we still need is a replacement for Zenworks Application deployment. We used zen snapshot to create a NAL app that we could push out to workstations. When the user clicked on the Nal app the application would install and then launch. This saved our hides a quite a few times with last minute application requests (after all the summer upgrades were done). So far MS v-app seems the closest thing that I see to be able to do this in a Windows AD environment. Anyone have a product that they use that they could suggest?

 

Thanks,

Steve

[BIST]

Vworkspace, citrix xenapp, ms v-app are a few to mention

 

Shaun dibble

[bio]

VMware's thinapp

 

bio..

[gjdb]

Does any of the apps you guys mention have an application launcher like the NAL?

[localzuk]

How about using MSI installers and group policy? So instead of deploying them, publishing them so that the user can choose to install them from Add/Remove software?

[TronXP]

We missed our application launcher too, in the end we went with this: Xia Links.

 

Not quite as good as NAL launcher but does what we wanted. It is literally just a links page though, so you can but links to programs, websites and folders.

[box_l]

We use xialiks too in all of our 65 schools. I also have started using cameyo for those troublesome apps that dont like running from the network.

 

BoX