Liquidware, the leader in
digital workspace management, announced the availability of
FlexApp v6.8.5. This release breathes new life into the legacy Microsoft
App-V format by automatically converting them into FlexApps. Modern
applications such as MSIX are also now supported en masse.
FlexApp containerizes virtually any Windows app into a portable
virtual hard disk which can contain one or more applications. FlexApp
applications are never installed into a Windows base image, they are
simply "attached", yet look and react as if they were natively
installed. This approach gives FlexApp the highest application
compatibility ranking in the industry and has won it several industry
awards.
Enterprises with hundreds, or even thousands, of apps have found
FlexApp easy to adopt since it features the industry's only fully
automated packaging console. That same innovative packaging console
saves an incredible amount of time and money through automation. The
packaging console already supported every popular Windows application
format installed and has now been enhanced to include Microsoft App-V
and MSIX application formats. The benefit of converting any application
to the FlexApp format is that base image management becomes very
straightforward since a more general image can be leveraged across all
users in the organization, while the apps they need are simply attached
by user, group, or other context aware attribute.
Functionality for FlexApp's recent FlexApp One self-contained
application format has also been extended in this version. FlexApp One
packages are ultra-portable and can be deployed by any means, including
Microsoft Intune, Cloud file sharing services, any software deployment
solution such as Ivanti DSM, or leading third party management control
planes such as Nerdio Manager from Nerdio. FlexApp One package creation
is now easier than ever with integrated support in FlexApp's packaging
console.
"FlexApp One is a great innovation, particularly now with the
integrated ProfileUnity console support," said Jeremy Stroebel, IT
Director, a leading Liquidware customer. "We've been using ProfileUnity
with FlexApp for some time now and these new features make packaging
easier and faster and allow us to deliver them to any device, greatly
extending the value of the solutions to our organization."
Additional features in FlexApp v6.8.5 include:
- FlexApp Packager API - third-party vendors, such as application
testing software solutions, can now easily and directly package FlexApps
with this new API
- Predictive Block Caching - Cloud or on-prem hosted FlexApp
packages now benefit from predictive block caching to the end user
session, enabling large applications to launch at native speeds
- Triggers - FlexApps can be applied or removed from users'
workspaces during the user session based on criteria that may have
changed, such as location or time of day, supporting compliance use
cases
- Packager Built-in Rollback and Auto OS Optimization - The FlexApp
Packaging Console now features the ability to roll the OS back and that
the OS is optimized for seamless packaging
- Additional new features include version control, merge layer capabilities, post-login support for app attachment, and more!
"The new features in this release of FlexApp are in direct response
to our enterprise customer requests," said Jason Mattox, CTO,
Liquidware. "Packaging apps of any type, and of any number, is now
easier with the newly supported formats, our automated packaging
enhancements, and performance increases in application playback. If
organizations are still managing countless base images for app
deployment they should most certainly consider FlexApp."
The latest version is now available for a free trial, download here.