Exam Ref 70-696 Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps
Orin Thomas
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Introduction
The Microsoft 70-696 Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps certification exam deals with advanced topics including virtual application management, RemoteApp, third-party software updates, configuration and compliance management. Some of the exam comprises topics that even experienced Configuration Manager administrators encounter on an infrequent basis.
Candidates for this exam are Information Technology (IT) Professionals who want to validate their advanced System Center 2012 R2 and Microsoft Intune device and application management skills and knowledge. To pass this exam, candidates require strong understanding of how to configure and manage virtual, mobile, and desktop applications. They also need to know how to manage software updates, compliance settings, inventory, and endpoint protection configuration using System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune. To pass, candidates require a thorough theoretical understanding as well as meaningful practical experience implementing the technologies involved.
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Chapter 1. Deploy and manage virtual applications
Virtualized applications provide administrators with more options than traditional applications. Rather than always requiring deployment through local installation, you can stream virtualized applications to clients. Virtualized applications dont make modifications to a clients registry or file system, so they can be removed as cleanly as they are installed. In this chapter, you learn about how to virtualize traditional applications, how to manage a virtualized application environment, and how to use RemoteApp to provide users with local access to applications running on remote servers.
Objectives in this chapter:
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Objective 1.1: Prepare virtual applications
Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) is a technology that enables you to virtualize applications so that they run in an environment that shields them from directly interacting with the operating system. Then you can run applications concurrently that are incompatible with each other. You use a special tool known as a sequencer to virtualize applications.
This section covers the following topics:
Application virtualization concepts
Sequencing an application
Preparing the Sequencer environment
App-V Connection Groups
Application virtualization concepts