14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft Application Virtualization Dashboard is a free solution from Microsoft, designed to let customers easily keep track of their virtualized applications. By leveraging the App-V Dashboard, IT professionals can streamline the monitoring and reporting of virtualized app usage, health and compliance within a specific environment. The App-V Dashboard is available for free via the Microsoft Download Center. Essentially, the Application Virtualization Dashboard was put together by the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team in order to streamline reporting in App-V.
“The Application Virtualization (App-V) Dashboard addresses the needs for business managers and IT pros to manage the use of virtualized applications in their organizations as well as the health status of the managed computers (clients). Because the Dashboard is built on Windows SharePoint Services, users can access it without using the App-V console directly,” an excerpt from the release notes accompanying the tool reads.
Application Virtualization Dashboard reached the Beta stage earlier this year, in mid-March. At that time, Microsoft had invited early adopters to test-drive the new Solution Accelerator for App-V and to offer their feedback via Connect. The final release of the Dashboard was designed and built on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5/4.6.
Microsoft noted that, “benefits of the dashboard include:
“- Actionable information out of the box. The dashboard comes with a wide range of valuable, built-in reports like top 5 applications used, top 5 users, applications never used, application usage for a specific user, system utilization, and many more. - Near-real-time access to key information. The graphical dashboard lets customers view any App-V dataset in near-real time. - Easy to build and configure. The dashboard’s wizard-based tools let customers easily create new dashboards in minutes. - Easy to customize. The dashboard can easily be customized to meet the needs of different departments and other groups. Any data set in the Microsoft Application Virtualization database can be presented on the dashboard, in chart, gauge, and table formats. - Flexible & interactive. Users can easily filter data and create ad hoc, custom views. Filters allow users to quickly drill down from high-level to more specific data.”
Microsoft Application Virtualization Dashboard is available for download here.
Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is available for download here.