Current Best Practices for Application Virtualization

Watch out the video about current best practices to be followed including PVAD for some applications and other useful stuffs from App-V Legend Steve Thomas





Due to some issues, have updated the video to another link:


http://app2pack.blogspot.com/2016/02/updated-best-practices-for-application.html

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