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The Package Accelerator gallery is now live, and as the official label implies, it’s designed to offer a gallery of accelerators built by either Microsoft or by MVPs.
“The idea around these Package Accelerators is to help simplify and streamline the process of virtualizing apps for IT Professionals who want to deliver App-V benefits to their business users sooner,” revealed Microsoft’s Karri Alexion-Tiernan.
Earlier this month, the software giant made available for download the first upgrade for App-V 4.6.
And with the advent of App-V 4.6 SP1 RTM, the company also started offering IT pros the first App-V Package Accelerators.
Softpedia users have already been able to read about the release of the App-V Package Accelerator for Adobe Reader 9.4 or the App-V Package Accelerator for Microsoft Project Professional 2010 on Windows 7.
However, Microsoft does not intend to stop at just the three resources mentioned above.
“Similar to the deployment of business applications in a traditional environment, virtual applications also require some preparation before publishing. This task may not seem too daunting but if you consider the fact that a typical enterprise can have 3,000 or more apps in their environment, the time can really add up,” Alexion-Tiernan added.
At the same time, the Redmond company encourages customers to build their own App-V Package Accelerator by taking advantage of the Microsoft Application Virtualization Sequencer.
“We’ve delivered tools like the Application Virtualization Sequencer which speeds up the process for IT Pro’s to virtualize applications,” Alexion-Tiernan said.
“We challenged ourselves to do more here since we heard from you that you wanted a way to virtualize apps once and capture those steps as a repeatable process or service available to your organization and we’re doing that through Package Accelerators.”
App-V 4.6 SP1 Package Accelerators are available for download here.
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM is available for download here.